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10.7 Resources25910.6WHAT YOU STILL DON’T KNOWNetBeans comes with a built-in version of Tomcat for serving up Web pagesand JSP and Java Servlets. It’s very handy for developing and testing on yourdesktop. We’ll look at that more in Part IV of this book.In the NetBeans help file, you’ll find this intriguing note:Using Scripting Languages in NetBeans: NetBeans provides you with ascripting feature that lets you use scripts to operate the IDE remotely orfrom the Scripting Console or by using a scripting file. You can use thescripting languages provided in the Scripting Console, or you can create ascripting class through the New From Template wizard. The followingscripting languages are provided with NetBeans: DynamicJava, BeanShell,and JPython. For information on the scripting languages provided, seeDynamicJava at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/djava/, BeanShell athttp://www.beanshell.org/, JPython at http://www.jpython.org/.We barely got you into Eclipse. Eclipse supports CVS (check out theTeam submenu). Eclipse provides code refactoring features that allow you torename classes and methods with automatic update of all affected source.Eclipse provides a feature to “externalize” strings (which takes all string constantsout of a module and makes them into properties references, allowing foreasy internationalization). It is a powerful Java development platform.10.7RESOURCESNetBeans. NetBeans has some very extensive online help. There are alsosome very good Web-based documents, including the user guide which can befound at http://usersguide.netbeans.org/. Of particular value is theGetting Work Done guide at http://usersguide.netbeans.org/gwd/which describes itself as “a more detailed introduction to the IDE than availablein the Getting Started tutorial.”Support for NetBeans, as with many other Open Source projects, happensonline. There is no toll-free number to call. Instead you subscribe to an e-maillist; all messages sent to the list are then forwarded to everyone on the list.Anyone can respond, and you are encouraged to respond too, to share whatyou know with others. The NetBeans developers are often the ones who answer