Tim Boudreau coauthored NetBeans™: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), served on the team that open-sourced NetBeans, and continues to develop for the NetBeans project.
Jaroslav Tulach cofounded the NetBeans project, and remains a leading guardian of the project API.
Geertjan Wielenga is the technical writer responsible for NetBeans documentation relating to module development and rich-client application development.