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260Chapter 10Integrated <strong>Development</strong> Environmentsthe most difficult questions, but lots of times answers come from others whohave just made it a little further up the learning curve than you.To subscribe to the nbusers list, send e-mail to nbusers-subscribe@netbeans.org. You might want to create a special mail folder for the constantstream of messages that you’ll get from nbusers. We’ve seen about 15–20 messagesper day, on average, over the past year. You don’t need to read them all,but as you scan the subject lines, see if there are ones that you might be able toanswer. If you want others to reply to your requests for help, it would only befair for you to do likewise. For a directory of the many e-mail lists related toNetBeans, go to http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/.Eclipse. The Java Developer’s Guide to Eclipse by Sherry Shavor et al. (ISBN0321159640, from Addison-Wesley Professional) is an excellent book on theEclipse platform, particularly from (as the title suggests) the Java developer’spoint of view. Eclipse is, however, more than just Java. It is designed to be an“IDE Factory,” providing a framework for almost any task that involves anedit/compile/deploy kind of lifecycle.