Mike Blamires

Firstly a quick install guide on Kubuntu (see http://www.kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php for more detail):

sudo echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.lists
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kde4-core

I have used KDE over Gnome for a long time, simply because KDE is much more configurable than Gnome and with the leap that Vista has taken (not that I can say I like it) I was secretly looking forward to the the KDE response and managed to wait until after release.

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I am sure I have posted (and lost) on this topic before, but I can highly recommend the following for getting a Mustek scanner up quickly http://ascending.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/howto-scan-with-mustek-600-cp-in-ubuntu-linux/. I managed to get some OK results using OCR with kooka and ocrad (sudo apt-get install ocrad kooka).
As a not I would recommend using xsane.

Now you have installed your newly supported Java stack you may well wonder what you can do with it ... well I'll be installing Subsonic. Sure this isn't really going to stretch your system or really use all the capabilities of the stack BUT it is a damn good way to listen to your music collection over your network.

First you need to have installed Glassfish as per this post, and then you need a copy of Subsonic which you can get from sourceforge here.
To finish off also install ant.

sudo apt-get install ant

To carry out the task very quickly you can do it through the command line as such:

asadmin deploy ~/Subsonic.war

Of course replacing the last parameter with the fill path to the subsonic file you downloaded earlier.

The second method is to use the administrators interface at http://localhost:4848/ as such:

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It's fairly simple to install but you do need to get the NetBeans IDE as the package in the repository is just an installer, to do this use the following:


sudo wget http://us2-mirror.netbeans.info/download/5_5/mlfcs/200612070100/netbeans-5_5.tar.gz /tmp
sudo apt-get install netbeans5.5 sun-java6-jdk glassfish


This should install all the new Java goodies for you.

To login to the application server admin console at http://localhost:4848/, the default username/password is admin/adminadmin respectively.

To test your application server you can go to http://localhost:8080/

Note: you may want to use an alternative mirror or source for netbeans. Its still needs to go into the /tmp folder.Make sure multiverse is enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list and that netbeans-5_5.tar.gz is owned by root, downloading to /tmp with sudo permissions should do this if not then you need to use sudo chown root:root netbeans-5_5.tar.gz.

Update: I fired up netbeans briefly tonight, although I have the sun-java6-jdk which is one of the dependencies of netbeans (either that or sun-java5-jdk) it moaned about not having the JPDA Debugger installed.Once I had installed sun-java5-jdk it was fine. See the netbeans package here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/devel/netbeans5.5

I have always found NetBeans to be an excellent IDE for Java development so I am very pleased to see the Ubuntu are officially supporting it with Ubuntu 7.04.
So far it has officially supported Eclipse which is very suitable for Java development but, for me personally, I have always peferred NetBeans finding it much more intuitive with more comprehensive 'out of the box' features.
It is great to see this support from Ubuntu, I will certainly be grabbing any using this when I upgrade to 7.04.

More information can be found here http://www.ubuntu.com/news/java-stack-included-in-ubuntu