Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

There's a lot to recognize in the recently released Oracle JDeveloper 12c. Definitely time to add it to the NetBeans Platform Showcase, since JDev 12c is now visibly a NetBeans Platform application, along with hundreds of other applications, such as Microchip MPLAB X, Lua Glider, DbWrench, VisualVM, and jMonkeyEngine SDK, to name just a few of at least hundreds (that we know of, though I suspect thousands) of others. In the release notes, notice paragraphs such as this: "The...

Ceylon code completion is simple to introduce via the NetBeans Code Completion Tutorial: The only problem is that I don't know the Ceylon API to use to obtain all the keywords. Right now they're hardcoded after I copied/pasted them into my source code directly from here: http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/reference/structure/keyword/ The source code of the plugin is here, works perfectly from NetBeans IDE 7.1 onwards, if all you want is file templates, syntax coloring,...

ZEBRA is an integration platform for electromagnetic simulations created and used internally at EADS. It provides transverse tools such as a 3d viewer (based on VTK), geometry import and cleaning tools, meshing algorithms, and electromagnetic parameter settings. The goal is to empower the user with an effective methodology for then exporting a simulation to a preferred native solver that will run either locally or on a high performance cluster. As stated above, several modules...

Did you know that Ctrl-Shift-C (as well as Ctrl-/) toggles comments in a Java file, i.e., adds/removes two forward slashes? I didn't know that until browsing through my new Key Bindings viewer: To see the viewer above in the context of the whole IDE, click the image above. Want to try it too? Together with the Code Templates viewer shown in this blog yesterday, you can try out the above by installing the plugin here, which you can install into NetBeans IDE 7.3.1: http://plugins.n...

Sometimes handy to know the code templates NetBeans IDE makes available while you're coding. Click the image below to see the full effect, i.e., the full list of code templates next to the Java editor: Here's the code: import java.awt.BorderLayout;import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import java.awt.event.ActionListener;import java.beans.IntrospectionException;import java.io.IOException;import java.util.List;import javax.swing.JButton;import org.openide.awt.ActionID;import...

Here's how to show a dialog listing the folders and files of the Templates folder. When OK is clicked in the dialog, all the templates in the selected folder are printed to the Output window. import java.awt.BorderLayout;import java.awt.Dimension;import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import java.awt.event.ActionListener;import java.util.Collections;import java.util.Enumeration;import javax.swing.JPanel;import org.openide.DialogDescriptor;import org.openide.DialogDisplayer;import...

The upcoming NetBeans Platform 7.4 @TemplateRegistration attribute requireProject is handy when you want to display a file template in the New File dialog when you have no project that relates to it. However, what if you not only have no related project but no interest in the NetBeans project system at all? Then you have a problem because you need the NetBeans project APIs if you want to have the New File dialog because the New File dialog classes are found in the modules...

The brand new "jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner’s Guide" teaches aspiring game developers how to build modern 3D games with Java. The jMonkeyEngine library is a free, open source 3D game engine for Java developers. jMonkeyEngine 3 comes bundled with the jMonkeyEngine SDK, a software development kit built on top of the NetBeans Platform.  The SDK sets up the classpath and build scripts so you can start working on your project right away. The game development tools in the SDK assist...

Revis (Systematic Review Supported by Visual Analytics) was created to support the selection and evaluation of quality of primary studies in systematic reviews. It provides visual mappings of the set of primary studies to be reviewed, to help the user to explore the data. The application is a flexible visualization tool that has several text handling facilities, which allows for a VTM (Visual Text Mining) exploration of a collection of documents. It is an open source tool that...