I was looking for Trac integration for NetBeans and I just found a project at SourceForge.net: Trac NetBeans Plugin. A little plugin that adds a search toolbar for trac.
You can point it to your trac instance using the option pane and if you enter a term, the query will be opened in the browser. Not exactly what I would call a full-blown integration, but well, it’s a start 
and I assume since this is a brand new project in version 0.1, there will be more features in the future.
I have just received a review copy of the new book NetBeans Platform 6 by Heiko Böck. It’s a guide for developing Rich Client Platform applications based on the NetBeans Platform. Actually I had already bought a copy since I had already read some preview chapters and I couldn’t wait. It’s great, but unfortunately only available in german.
I always liked the books from Galileo Press, because they often contain more than you expect. This one about software law for example contains a checklist for how to write good software documentation :).
What’s so good about the platform book is, that it not only gives you a very structured introduction to the concepts and the architecture of the APIs, but also covers and explains the details. There are good schematic graphics to illustrate the concepts and you also get code samples. I think you could say this book is the most complete resource on the NetBeans platform to date.
“Sitzen machen!”, learn german! buy the book!
I just had a look at the RefactorIt website, and the download is now available. 
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It looks like they’ve got a version for NB 5 only, probably due to the changed editor infrastructure. I couldn’t install it in my NB 6.0 so far. I’ll try to find out more on their plans to support NB 6.
Thanks to all of the attendees for making the NetBeans User Group munich kickoff meeting 2008 a great success. Well, what can go wrong with a speaker like Sun Java Champion and NetBeans Dreamteam member Adam Bien? Adam gave an excellent talk on EJB 3, Fluent Interfaces, Glassfish v2 - and lightweight Java EE 5 … and NetBeans 6 and he really managed to cover all of these topics in great detail. Thanks, Adam for this excellent talk with lots of code samples and the lively discussion. More than 50 people from all over germany joined us for the meeting. Thanks to Sun and Sigs Datacom we had free copies of JavaSpektrum with Adam Biens new article on Services and Objects using Java EE 5/6 and T-shirts as giveaways.
JUGM meetings will be held bimonthly in 2008 with the next talk on “SQE - a Software Quality Environment for NetBeans” by Sven Reimers in march. Join us for the meetings, the toughest questions will be rewarded with a cool NetBeans T-shirt :).
Join NetBeans dreamteam member Adam Bien and Munich’s NetBeans User Group for a discussion and demo of patterns, best practices and approaches for developing maintainable Java EE 5/SE applications using NetBeans 6.0.
JAM SE is a free project created with the NetBeans mobility kit. With this you can control the music player on your pc with your mobile phone. It works on linux and windows. Watch this presentation on NetBeans TV
drinking my morning coffee I just found that a new version of Citra FX Photo Filter 2.1 has been released with new filters and an enhanced user interface. Kiyut, the company behind Citra FX is also producing the Sketsa SVG editor and both applications are based on the NetBeans platform. There’s an interview with Tonny Kohar from Kiyut about Citra FX and the NetBeans platform here.
