Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

The JavaFX 8 API, which is bundled with JDK 8, contains a new UI control known as the DatePicker. The video below by Jim Weaver demonstrates how to use NetBeans IDE 7.4 Beta to create a JavaFX application from scratch that contains a DatePicker. It also touches on using Java lambda expressions to simplify event handling. In addition, the new date/time API is discussed, and the JFXtras CalendarPicker is demonstrated. The blog post associated with this video is located in...

When you start up NetBeans IDE, you're automatically given a Java DB database named "sample", which unsurprisingly includes some sample data: However, you have access to another database, should you need it, via utilities provided by GlassFish. Right-click the GlassFish node in the IDE and choose "View Domain Admin Console", as shown here: Once the Admin Console has started up in your browser, navigate to Resources | JDBC | Derby Pool, as shown below: Click the "Ping" button...

Interesting and cool that an HTML file in the NetBeans Navigator in NetBeans IDE 7.4 shows JavaScript and CSS content: ...while in 7.3.1, it didn't:

Interesting and cool that an HTML file in the NetBeans Navigator in NetBeans IDE 7.4 shows JavaScript and CSS content: ...while in 7.3.1, it didn't:

In a couple of NetBeans discussions and issues, users are asking for a Java scrapbook feature: http://forums.netbeans.org/ptopic51181.html https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191488 I took Jesse Glick's Scrapbook feature, mentioned at the end of the issue above, included Java code templates, coloring, and other features, and have made it available as a plugin in the Plugin Portal: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/50195/?show=true After you install it in NetBeans IDE...

Yup, there's another NetBeans Platform application in Oracle's software stable. And it is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 4.0: Interesting that one can create diagrams and then export them. Maybe someone should look at those export formats and see whether one or more of them could be imported into NetBeans IDE and then converted into Java classes, methods, and so forth. At least the CSV format looks promising. The flexible window system, as with Oracle SQL Developer 4.0 and O...

Once you've installed the Scala plugin into NetBeans IDE and taken it for a test drive as described yesterday, you're a couple of clicks away from using Lift in NetBeans IDE. Click to enlarge the image below, which shows the Scala editor, in the context of a Maven web project, together with the result shown in the embedded browser. As can be seen below, the Scala console is also integrated, thanks to the Scala plugin. Best of all, since the application is deployed to...

Took me about 20 minutes to figure out the procedure below, including downloading the related software. At the end, you'll have the samples from the Scala distribution up and running in NetBeans IDE. Click to enlarge the image below: Let's get started. Get NetBeans IDE. Download NetBeans IDE 7.3.1, which is the latest official release of NetBeans IDE at the time of writing. If all you want to do is use Scala in NetBeans IDE, make sure to download the "Java SE" distribution,...

I took a look at Oracle SQL Developer 4.0 today. Startup is really fast and a lot is familiar: And the window system too, much more flexible than what SQL Developer used to have! Here's the installation directory, i.e., including parts of NetBeans: Very cool, just like JDeveloper 12c.