BlueJ Demo (5 Minutes)

Description

Product Versions Supported

• BlueJ 2.1.3
• NetBeans 5.0 BlueJ Edition

Points to Hit

• The only real point of this demo is just to raise awareness of our partnership with BlueJ.
• BlueJ's cool object visualization and inspection.
• NetBeans BlueJ Edition can open BlueJ projects.
• Changes made to the project from with tool are picked up by the other.
• You get the simplicity of BlueJ and the power of NetBeans (code completion, refactoring, Matisse, source control, etc.)

Demo Prep

• Download and install BlueJ
• Download and install NetBeans BlueJ Edition
• Download the BlueJ Calculator project.

Gotchas

• Nothing known at this time.

Demo

• Poll the audience to get a feel for how many teach Java and/or have heard of BlueJ. This will give you an idea of how much time to focus on this feature.
• Open the Calculator Project in BlueJ, compile, create a new instance of calculator and exectute it's show() method to launch the UI.
• Do some basic math then Inspect the Calculator instance and the the CalcEngine instance.
• Open the same project in NetBeans. Show the new BlueJ project view.
• Make a change to the project in NetBeans (e.g., change the "?" key to "Help") and show that BlueJ is seeing those same changes.
• I'd like to show how to upgrade to a NetBeans project, but this currently fails because of bug 84934
• Show the Module Manager and the disabled modules. This allows the user to grow into the IDE.

Demo Cleanup