NetBeans & Java at the PanamaJUG Congress

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When Fabiola Rios accepted an invitation to give a presentation at the first-ever PanamaJUG Congress she was fully aware of the challenge ahead: “Panama is mainly Microsoft territory, and programmers there develop with Visual Basic, C and .Net.”
Encouraging Java and NetBeans adoption in rival territory was the goal of the two-day conference which was organized by PanamaJUG president and NetBeans Dream Team member Aristides Villarreal Bravo, and held in mid-December 2007.



Rios, a NetBeans Mobility software engineer, started her session with an introduction to Java ME development, an overview of the growing mobile applications market and the advantages of using development tools such as the NetBeans IDE's Mobility features to build slick applications. But developers can be a tough bunch to sway just with talk alone and she moved quickly into a demo.
“NetBeans is a new tool in Panama,” she said. “People still work from scratch and I wanted to show them how easy it was to create a real mobile application in a matter of minutes with the IDE.”
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Hope to join with them first we must go through SCJP