NetBeans: Credits

The NetBeans Open Source project cannot exist without contributions from the community.

Special credit is given to

• Sun Microsystems, Inc.

for releasing the source code to the NetBeans IDE to the public and paying the salaries of many people involved in this project.

Additional credit is given to the following people who contributed to this project (in alphabetical order and independent of the amount of their contributions):

• Christina Ahrens (cahrens at the host mathworks dot com)
• Asgeir Orn Asgeirsson (asgeir at the host dimonsoftware dot com)
• Christopher Atlan (lordy at the host restoroot dot org)
• Carel Bast (Carel.Bast at the host nl dot compuware dot com)
• Steve Benigan (benigan_steve at the host hotmail dot com)
• Chris Bishop (kit at the host bishop dot net dot nz)
• Michael Bishop (mikebish at the host ecsi dot com dot au)
• Mauro Botelho (mbotelho at the host ccsc dot com)
• Vincent Brabant (vincent.brabant at the host skynet dot be)
• Jeff Cantin (jdcantin at the host netbeans dot org)
• Gabriele Carcassi (carcassi at the host netbeans dot org)
• Benoit Cerrina (benoit.cerrina at the host writeme dot com)
• Jayme C. Edwards (angjh at the host execpc dot com)
• Nick Fortescue (nfortescue at the host netbeans dot org)
• David Freels (dafreels at yahoo dot com)
• Kenneth N. Fujimoto (fuji at the host bestnewspaper dot com)
• Carl L Gilbert (lamont_gilbert at the host rigidsoftware dot com)
• Kees van Ginkel (kees_van_ginkel at the host nl dot compuware dot com)
• Andrej Golovnin (golovnin at the host gmx dot net)
• Michel Graciano (michel dot graciano at gmail dot com)
• Robert Greig (user at the host rgreig dot freeserve dot co dot uk)
• Gunnar Grim (gugrim at the host netbeans dot org)
• Anuradha Gunasekara (theanuradha at gmail dot com)
• Sam Halliday (sam dot halliday at gmail dot com)
• Eric Hartmann (ehartmann at the host netbeans dot org)
• Niclas Hedhman (niclas at the host ewarna dot com)
• Leon Chiver (leon at the host level7 dot ro)
• Jonathan Keller (jhkeller at the host ucdavis dot edu)
• Miloš Kleint (milos at the host ewarna dot com)
• Jeff Keyser (JKeyser at the host telocity dot com)
• Arjan Kok (arjan_kok at the host nl dot compuware dot com)
• Holger Krug (hkrug at the host netbeans dot org)
• Jan Labrie (Jan_Labrie at the host nl dot compuware dot com)
• Ross Lamont (rlamont at the host componentcorp dot com)
• Max Lobel (axobel at the host yahoo dot co dot jp)
• Jun Luo (junluo at the host nuance dot com)
• Roger Martin (neuralworks at the host home dot com)
• Maxym Mykhalchuk (gandalf at the host prtech dot dp dot ua)
• Derrick Oswald (DerrickOswald at the host home dot com)
• Saptarshi Purkayastha (sunbiz at gmail dot com)
• John Richardson (jrichard at the host zealand dot mv dot com)
• Gerrit Riessen (Gerrit.Riessen at the host web dot de)
• Michael Ruflin (mruflin at the host gmx dot de)
• Wiebe Ruiter (weeb at the host weeb dot com)
• Michael Nascimento Santos (misterm at gmail dot com)
• Kai Rudiger Schobbert (KRS at the host logas dot de)
• Thomas Singer (thomas.singer at the host regnis dot de)
• Evan "Hippy" Slatis (Evan.Slatis at the host nl dot compuware dot com)
• Christian Stein (stein at the host caladon dot de)
• Ted Stockwell (ted.stockwell at the host acxiom dot com)
• David Štrupl (david at the host solutions dot cz)
• Lukas Tadial (lukas.tadial at the host email dot cz)
• Alan Tai (Alan.Tai at the host chase dot com)
• Gili Tzabari (l8r at the host email dot com)
• Rich Unger (runger at the host nuance dot com)
• Vladimir Strigun (sva at the host netbeans dot org)
• Compaq Computer Corporation (several individuals) (NetBeans at the host compaq dot com)

If you are not listed here but feel you should be, please let us know and please give details of your contribution: for example, references to mailing list archives, Issuezilla, CVS commits, etc.

Many thanks also go to the people who contributed ideas or gave time to help others on the mailing lists.