What's new and cool in NetBeans 6.0

 Matt Hosanee
Find out how NetBeans 6.0 has evolved into the powerful IDE that it is today. NetBeans came forward in leaps and bounds with the release of 5.0, this session will talk about how with the release of 6.0, NetBeans has taken another giant leap forward in enabling developers to create rich and functional applications, for everything from mobile phones, to desktop computers.

Technologies for Creating Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications

 Matt Hosanee
As the world wide web moves to Web 2.0 or "Web.next", a breed of applications is emerging that redefines the typical web application in terms of user experience, response time, and network efficiency. This new breed of web application has been termed, "Rich Internet Applications" or RIA. This session will give an overview of RIA as well as discussing the technologies typically used to create RIA. This session will dive into the details on AJAX technologies including jMaki, Wicket, and JavaServer Faces as well as demonstrating the JavaFX technology.

Tools for Simplifying SOA

 Steve Elliott
Entire conferences are dedicated to this topic, but we'll distill it all down into 1 hour. This session will aim to highlight some of the key features in managing multiple technology platforms including SOAP, BPEL, Java EE, and more.

What, When, How, Why use the NetBeans Platform

 Simon Cook
Virtually all developers use some sort of framework such as Struts, Wicket or Seam when developing a Web site of any size. The NetBeans platform is a foundation that will help you to build professional and modular applications. What's new for platform development in the 6.0 IDE and beyond?

Introduction to the Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding

 Simon Cook
This session is an introduction to Beans Binding and Swing Application Framework. You will learn the basics of these new desktop frameworks and see how they are supported by NetBeans. You will also learn about many new features of the "Matisse" GUI builder which were added in NetBeans 6.0.

Introduction to (J) Ruby on Rails

Amanda Waite
Why start with Ruby on Rails? Because the Rails framework has some outstanding tools for managing more schemas. Attend this session to understand how NetBeans is enabling developers to get the most from technologies that are growing in capability and prominence.