We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

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[[Image:Xelfi.jpg|640x]]

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We had not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story is better described at the official [https://netbeans.org/about/history.html NetBeans history] page.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story is better described at the official [https://netbeans.org/about/history.html NetBeans history] page.

In 1995 [[I|me]] and eighty other students were supposed to select a final software project to finish our studies. There was a huge gathering where various professors presented their projects hoping to attract attention of students. There was a project to control real robot - the previous group managed to move it and even speed it up, until it hit the wall. The goal for next project was to slow it down or even stop it to avoid the crash. Nice, but a bit too hardware oriented and [[I]] was more a software guy. Then there was a project to build a database system for a hospital - nice and valuable goal to help poor patients, but [[I]] was not huge fan of [[SQL]] & co. And so on, so on. When the presentation was over, [[I]] still didn't know what project to join.

In 1995 [[I|me]] and eighty other students were supposed to select a final software project to finish our studies. There was a huge gathering where various professors presented their projects hoping to attract attention of students. There was a project to control real robot - the previous group managed to move it and even speed it up, until it hit the wall. The goal for next project was to slow it down or even stop it to avoid the crash. Nice, but a bit too hardware oriented and [[I]] was more a software guy. Then there was a project to build a database system for a hospital - nice and valuable goal to help poor patients, but [[I]] was not huge fan of [[SQL]] & co. And so on, so on. When the presentation was over, [[I]] still didn't know what project to join.

However [[I]] wasn't alone. Several other guys were disappointed with the presented choices. We started to chat and agreed what we would like to do: we'd like to build an [[IDE]] - something like [[Delphi]], but to run on [[Linux]] - e.g. for [[XWindow]] system. Luckily there was a visiting professor from U.S. - [[AdamDingle]] - we contacted him and (as he didn't know what it is like to lead seven students during software project) he agreed to do it. We officially announced the project and started weekly meetings. A usual meeting lasted an hour and we chatted about the great design, plans and then went into a pub. It was hard work, but we managed to do it for almost a year. Without producing a single line of code!

However [[I]] wasn't alone. Several other guys were disappointed with the presented choices. We started to chat and agreed what we would like to do: we'd like to build an [[IDE]] - something like [[Delphi]], but to run on [[Linux]] - e.g. for [[XWindow]] system. Luckily there was a visiting professor from U.S. - [[AdamDingle]] - we contacted him and (as he didn't know what it is like to lead seven students during software project) he agreed to do it. We officially announced the project and started weekly meetings. A usual meeting lasted an hour and we chatted about the great design, plans and then went into a pub. It was a hard work, but we managed to do it for almost a year. Without producing a single line of code!

During that time [[I]] managed to participate in another project where we were using the new, [[cool]] language called [[Java]]. It didn't feel that bad, so at one of [[Xelfi]] before-the-pub meetings [[I]] suggested to use [[Java]] instead of [[C]]. The response was overwhelming: no! Thus we continued in our regular meetings for next three months, still without writing a single line of code. Then [[I]]

During that time [[I]] managed to participate in another project where we were using the new, [[cool]] language called [[Java]]. It didn't feel that bad, so at one of [[Xelfi]] before-the-pub meetings [[I]] suggested to use [[Java]] instead of [[C]]. The response was overwhelming: no! Thus we continued in our regular meetings for next three months, still without writing a single line of code. Then [[I]]

[[NetBeans]] started as [[Xelfi]] student project at [[MatFyz|faculty of mathematics and physics]] of [[Charles University]], [[Prague]]. Originally we wanted to create [[Delphi]] for [[XWindow]] system, but later we decided to switch to [[Java]] and create the first [[IDE]] for [[Java]] written in [[Java]].

[[NetBeans]] started as [[Xelfi]] student project at [[MatFyz|faculty of mathematics and physics]] at [[Charles University]], [[Prague]]. Originally we wanted to create [[Delphi]] for [[XWindow]] system, but later we decided to switch to [[Java]] and create the first [[IDE]] for [[Java]] written in [[Java]].

In 1995 [[I|me]] and eighty other students were supposed to select a final software project to finish our studies. There was a huge gathering where various professors presented their projects hoping to attract attention of students. There was a project to control real robot - the previous group managed to move it and even speed it up, until it hit the wall. The goal for next project was to slow it down or even stop it to avoid the crash. Nice, but a bit too hardware oriented and [[I]] was more a software guy. Then there was a project to build a database system for a hospital - nice and valuable goal to help poor patients, but [[I]] was not huge fan of [[SQL]] & co. And so on, so on. When the presentation was over, [[I]] still didn't know what project to join.

In 1995 [[I|me]] and eighty other students were supposed to select a final software project to finish our studies. There was a huge gathering where various professors presented their projects hoping to attract attention of students. There was a project to control real robot - the previous group managed to move it and even speed it up, until it hit the wall. The goal for next project was to slow it down or even stop it to avoid the crash. Nice, but a bit too hardware oriented and [[I]] was more a software guy. Then there was a project to build a database system for a hospital - nice and valuable goal to help poor patients, but [[I]] was not huge fan of [[SQL]] & co. And so on, so on. When the presentation was over, [[I]] still didn't know what project to join.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story is better described at the official [https://netbeans.org/about/history.html NetBeans history] page.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story is better described at the official [https://netbeans.org/about/history.html NetBeans history] page.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story is better described at the official [https://netbeans.org/about/history.html NetBeans history] page.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not all a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

proposed to use [[Java]] once again: this time the suggestion got accepted. So we all started to learn and code in [[Java]]. The progress was [[good]]: [[Java]] really delivered on the promise to run everywhere ([[I]] was [[OS/2]] user, there were few [[Linux]] users and of course bunch students using [[Windows]]) and provided single [[GUI]] toolkit on all these platforms (something we struggled to unify when working on the [[C]] version of [[Xelfi]]). In a few months the [[IDE]] was working and ready to help us pass the final exam.

proposed to use [[Java]] once again: this time the suggestion got accepted. So we all started to learn and code in [[Java]]. The progress was [[good]]: [[Java]] really delivered on the promise to run everywhere ([[I]] was [[OS/2]] user, there were few [[Linux]] users and of course bunch students using [[Windows]]) and provided single [[GUI]] toolkit on all these platforms (something we struggled to unify when working on the [[C]] version of [[Xelfi]]). In a few months the [[IDE]] was working and ready to help us pass the final exam.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generated hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generating hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not all a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not all a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

proposed to use [[Java]] once again: this time the suggestion got accepted. So we all started to learn and code in [[Java]]. The progress was [[good]]: [[Java]] really delivered on the promise to run everywhere ([[I]] was [[OS/2]] user, there were few [[Linux]] users and of course bunch students using [[Windows]]) and provided single [[GUI]] toolkit on all these platforms (something we struggled to unify when working on the [[C]] version of [[Xelfi]]). In a few months the [[IDE]] was working and ready to help us pass the final exam.

proposed to use [[Java]] once again: this time the suggestion got accepted. So we all started to learn and code in [[Java]]. The progress was [[good]]: [[Java]] really delivered on the promise to run everywhere ([[I]] was [[OS/2]] user, there were few [[Linux]] users and of course bunch students using [[Windows]]) and provided single [[GUI]] toolkit on all these platforms (something we struggled to unify when working on the [[C]] version of [[Xelfi]]). In a few months the [[IDE]] was working and ready to help us pass the final exam.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only thing they could study alon was documentation - we had an enormous amount of documentation thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generated hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

We passed the exam with excellent marks. Some people say that it was because at that time nobody from the reviewers could execute [[Java]] program. So they couldn't try [[Xelfi]] themselves, but had to trust our demo and we obviously knew what features to avoid from it. The only material they could study alone was documentation, and we had an enormous amount of that thanks to another [[Java]]'s invention: [[Javadoc]]! We impressed everyone by generated hundreds of pages describing (well rather just listing) all the methods we had in the system. No surprise everybody was impressed.

However it was not all a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

However it was not all a fake - we actually liked what we did, so we some of us tried to push [[Xelfi]] further. We started to offer [[Xelfi]] as a [[wikipedia:shareware|shareware]] asking for $20 per copy. We have not made much money this way, but (and that is more important) we attracted attention: we were contacted by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanekroman Roman Staněk]] who was seeking for investment opportunities and in autumn 1997 the company which later turned into [[NetBeans]] was established.

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].

At that moment [[Xelfi]] started to morph into [[NetBeans]], however that story belongs to [[TBD|another page]].