JavaOne begins with NetBeans

With Dan Farber reviewing the future in San Diego and David Berlind delivering a reality check on Gartner presentations at the Symposium/ITxpo-side of San Francisco's Moscone Center, we're leaning on veteran software engineer, author and ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette to deliver regular reports from this week's JavaOne conference. Although JavaOne officially opens today, yesterday was NetBeans Day, and members of the NetBeans GUI Editor (code name "Matisse") team were talking about the past, present, and future of the tool.

Also: In his BriefingsDirect blog, Dana Gardner reports on Sun taking a major step closer to fully opening Java...[more]