About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Free UML tools, ArgoUML, Dia, Umbrello UML Modeller, NetBeans, System Architect, MagicDraw, Eclipse, List of Unified Modeling Language tools, EiffelStudio, Microsoft Visio, ATLAS Transformation Language, Kermeta, QM, PowerDesigner, Telelogic Rhapsody, Astah*, YEd, MscGen, Objecteering, AgileJ StructureViews, OptimalJ, Open ModelSphere, UMLet, BOUML, UModel, Borland Together, ObjecTime, Stani's Python Editor, Apparat, Violet UML Editor, StarUML, Papyrus, Software Ideas Modeler, Gaphor, CaseComplete, Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling, Visustin, MonoUML, Poseidon for UML, I-OOA, ERequirements, Telelogic TAU, UML Pad. Excerpt: NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others. The NetBeans IDE 7.0 no longer supports Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The NetBeans IDE is written in Java and can run anywhere a JVM is installed, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris. A JDK is required for Java development functionality, but is not required for development in other programming languages. The NetBeans platform allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. Applications based on the NetBeans platform (including the NetBeans IDE) can be extended by third party developers. NetBeans began in 1996 as Xelfi (word play on Delphi), a Java IDE student project under the guidance of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. In 1997 Roman Stan k formed a company around the project and produced commercial versions of the NetBeans IDE until it was bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun open-sourced the NetBeans IDE in June of the following year. Since then, the NetBeans community has continued to grow....
