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The Boeing Shared Platform is a logical outgrowth of building MassTk on top of the NetBeans Platform: BSP is a feature-rich platform created by factoring out the modules from MassTk that are not specific to mass properties analysis, but are useful to engineering analysis applications in general.

In addition to the NetBeans Platform, the BSP includes a number of third-party open-source libraries, as well as a number of Boeing-developed modules.

Currently there are a total of four applications being built with the BSP. Learn more...

The MassTk is an engineering analysis application by Boeing. It incorporates the functionality from several legacy mass properties analysis applications that were originally written in Java, Fortran, C, and even Perl.

MassTk is built on top of the NetBeans Platform 6.0. It provides a rich GUI with custom editors for all business objects including 2D & 3D visualization.

Boeing uses MassTk to perform payload balance solutions, loadability analysis, fuel management analysis, fuel mass property analysis, and mass distribution to finite element models. MassTk vastly improved pre- and post-processing of analyses, it has a shallower learning curve, and lower maintenance costs. Learn more...

Citra FX is a digital image editor from Kiyut Software Indonesia.

The application comes with many built-in filters, including color adjustment, contrast, exposure, water ripples, emboss, etc. It is based on the NetBeans Platform.

Learn more and download an evaluation version.

Sketsa is a SVG Graphics Editor from Kiyut Software Indonesia.

This cross-platform vector drawing application with various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. The Tools include a property palette, a source editor, a defs editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. It uses SVG as a native file format. Sketsa is based on the Netbeans Platform 5.5.

Learn more and download an evaluation version.

AIOTrade is a free, open-source stock technical analysis platform.

The tool's pluggable architecture is ideal for extensions such as indicators and charts. AIOTrade is a 100% Java stand-alone application built on the NetBeans Platform. The source code is organized as a NetBeans module-suite project.

More information is available from the AIOTrade homepage and the AIOTrade Blog.

Fiorano Studio offers a complete solution for implementing SOA using Service Components as Lego Blocks.

Fiorano chose Netbeans as the base platform for developing next generation of its toolset, to build upon the strong foundation of Netbeans. The open platform APIs allow easy extension and customization of the platform as well, which was particularly important to implement advanced BPEL-based process composition tools.

Learn more at the Fiorano Studio Homepage.

jCAE is a JAVA based environment for CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) applications. It provides meshing and visualization capabilities and is targeted to run on a maximal number of platforms.

jCAE features a simple volumes modeler and a finite elements mesher. It has inherited the module architecture of the Netbeans Platform and is portable to all platforms which support Java and OpenCascade. More information is available at the jCAE homepage.

MC4J is a project to create management software for J2EE application servers and other Java applications.

The MC4J JMX Console is a Swing application for remote monitoring and administration using Java Management Extensions (JMX). It includes support for all major application servers and advanced features such as live attribute graphing and customizable dashboards. It is designed to utilize the JMX specification to connect to and introspect information within supported servers and applications. It provides the ability to browse existing managed beans (MBeans), update configurations, monitor operation and execute tasks. You can get more information at MC4J Home.

Nokia offers a complete solution for managing mobile networks and end-user services, called Nokia NetAct™, ranging from control-room software for 24/7/365 monitoring of the network to software for graphical optimization.Nokia NetAct™ has been delivered to more than 300 customers around the world. With the introduction of the NetBeans Platform as base for its tool development, Nokia hopes to boost the network operator's efficiency in carrying out network management tasks just in the same way as integrated development environments (IDEs) boost software development productivity.

The Topology window is an explorer for the network that is managed. Views is an explorer for the graphical views to the network. At the top right, some graphical network views are opened. The icons represent network elements, the coloring their state. In the middle right, you see an up-to-date list of alarms (problem reports) coming from the network. At the bottom right the Manual for the currently selected alarm is displayed.

MultiTrode announces PumpView V2 © built on Sun Microsystems robust J2EE platform. "Not only do we leverage the J2EE platform for PumpView, but also the Netbeans 4.1 RCP;" said Paul Gibson, Team Leader for the MultiSmart suite of products. The team at MultiTrode will release a redesigned client configuration tool called Configurator V2 ©

"We used the Netbeans 4.1 RCP as the basis for Configurator V2 ©because of its proven stability, install base and multiple platform support . Netbeans RCP delivers on its ability to allow our focus to be the application features not infrastructure," said Paul. Configurator V2 © will deploy to PumpView customers world wide. Configurator V2 was a built jointly by Kcc Tech Pty Ltd and MultiTrode. "Kcc Tech had large and small enterprise experience with the Netbeans RCP this got us going immediately and accomplish our project goals," said Paul.

More Information on MultiTrode and Kcc Tech can be found at http://www.multitrode.com.au/ and http://www.kcctech.com.au/netbeansrcp

The NetBeans-based application is used for International Disease Code (ICD10 & ICD9) and drug table lookup.

Because fluid flow simulators can be difficult to use and require significant expertise and understanding of Reservoir Engineering concepts and experience, an efficient and flexible interface between the complex numeric algorithms of the simulator and the engineer is vital for ensuring best-practice use of the software. An Interactive Development Environment (IDE) allows to rapidly adapt the interface and simplify the use of a simulator as well as help the engineer analyze output data graphically, manage large quantities of data and adjust input parameters to ensure optimal performance.

Streamsim's IDE is called studioSL and it is a NetBeans branded application written in Java using NetBeans platform's code and API's. http://www.streamsim.com/.

Taking the best elements of Podcasting, peer-to-peer and blogging and wrapping them into an interface that any computer user can understand, SmartBlobz allows people to share photographs, documents, movies and any other digital asset either in secure, private groups or publicly, all with the simplicity of drag-and-drop.

In addition to this, SmartBlobz puts an end to the duplication and mistakes caused by using e-mail as a file-sharing mechanism. SmartBlobz connects you and keeps you up-to-date using its enterprise- class object data management engine.

Nerd Alert - SmartBlobz is a software service deployed using Java Web Start to initialise a Java NetBeans-based peer-to-peer application that creates a distributed object database and transacts it via Sun JXTA. SmartBlobz uses a permissions system to ensure security - End of Nerd Alert.

The application is used to view data transmitted by telemetry from a Range Rover over 175 miles of desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. Good luck, Matteo and team!

JSwat is open-source software and is freely available in both binary and source code form. Its features include breakpoints with conditionals; colorized source code display with code navigator; movable display panels showing threads, call stack, visible variables, and loaded classes; command interface for more advanced features; and Java-like expression evaluation, including method invocation.

It evolved from the open-source project ArgoUML and turned it into a world-class modeling tool with over 1,200,000 copies distributed to over 100 countries. The strong focus on usability makes it the easiest tool to learn and work with. It is delivered in several editions to meet different needs of different users.

More information.

The NetBeans Platform provides Project XEMO with a strong application architecture and infrastructure, including advanced windowing services, project management, remote update and other utilities. XEMO ICE - the Integrated Composition Environment - is the desktop delivery platform for the integration of application modules into an interactive musical application.

It provides those services needed for all musical applications, such as common data representations, music file formats and common interface components, e.g. playback controls. These services are implemented as a set of shared APIs that are available to music application developers.

More Information.

Surpac Minex Group was formed by the merger of ECSI (Minex) and Surpac Software International in October 2002. Over the past 30 years, ECSI and SSI had developed a client base of upwards of 5,000 users, spanning more than 89 countries, with seven dedicated company offices and many global agents.

Minex 5's interface provides a 3D working environment with a range of options for visualising data in a real world perspective based upon the open-source NetBeans Platform.

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