[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ Netbeans Plugins

[Michael Kölling]

On 11 Mar 2006, at 12:06, Frans Thamura wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am developing a tutorial using BlueJ, but I hear that there will  
> be a
> plugins in BlueJ, can anyone know what is the status of this?

Hi Frans,

We have been working for a few months with the NetBeans team to  
create support for an organised migration from BlueJ into NetBeans.

The result, however, is not a BlueJ plugin, but a new version of  
NetBeans, called "NetBeans IDE / BlueJ Edition".

This version is not yet available. There has just been a press  
release from Sun a couple of days ago (here: http://biz.yahoo.com/ 
prnews/060309/sfth070.html?.v=41 ) and we have done a demo recently.

The public release of this version is still a couple of months away.

The NetBeans/BlueJ edition will be able to open and work with BlueJ  
projects, it will look very clean and simple and use some BlueJ-ish  
icon-vocabulary and allow yo to switch on the more powerful NetBeans  
features gradually, one at a time.

You can even work on the same project with BlueJ and NetBeans  
simultaneously, if you want!

We'll talk more about this soon, when it comes a little closer to  
public release.

Regards,

Michael