Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

So you're using NetBeans IDE to teach programming to your class. What kind of features would be specifically relevant to you, during teaching? Increase/decrease font size. Hold down the Alt key and scroll the mouse up/down and you'll see the font size magically increase/decrease. Same thing in the Output window, to really show your class the errors of their ways. Quickly switch between open editor documents. Ctrl-Tab, just like all/most other applications, just like when you...

Speaking of terminal emulators, which I did yesterday, here's another terminal application on top of the NetBeans Platform, one that's been in production for several years, by and for Thrifty White Pharmacy. It is named JTerm.  After Windows 7 came out, the company needed a Telnet/Terminal emulator that would replace the existing emulators that only worked up to Windows XP. Their main pharmacy application is written in COBOL and requires a Console/Terminal emulator to access...

I've been looking into how to interact with the terminal in a NetBeans Platform application. The simplest approach is described here, from sometime ago, which gives you a native terminal embedded in your NetBeans Platform application, but does not let you interact with it, i.e., listen to key strokes. That may be fine for your purposes, in which case forget the rest of this blog entry. However, to get more control over the embedded native terminal, quite a bit more work needs...

A learner corpus, also called interlanguage or L2 corpus, is a computerised textual database of language as produced by second language (L2) learners. Such a database is a powerful resource in research of second language acquisition. It can be used to optimise the L2 learning process, to assist authors of textbooks and dictionaries, and to tailor them to learners with a particular native language. Czesl, a learner corpus tool for Czech, has been written in Java on top of the...

I had a great time at JavaCro over the last few days, held near Zagreb, Croatia. I was there last year too, when the conference was held for the first time. I renewed some contacts I made then, ate really a lot of meat (seems to be the main item of food in that part of the world), and met a lot of people for the first time. I did two presentations, one on HTML5 tools in NetBeans IDE and HTML5 integration with Java EE. The other was an introduction and panel discussion about...

OOliba Modeler, by Ooliba, enables insurance companies to build financial risk models in an intuitive way with a graphic interface. Its modular architecture enables modeling for risk life, non-life, and health. It is created on the NetBeans Platform.

Frontiersman, by B6 Sigma, enables companies to continuously monitor their manufacturing processes, allowing them to identify flaws early on and eliminating costly final inspections. It is created on the NetBeans Platform.

Recently there was a question on the NetBeans Platform mailing list (if you're creating NetBeans Platform applications and are not on the mailing list, you're missing a lot of good discussions and code samples) about custom DataObjects, Navigators, and Visual Library satellite views. So I started with the code in the NetBeans File Type Integration tutorial. I added a Navigator, in a separate module, just to prove the point that it can work that way. Rather than the Navigator...

Global Information Solutions is a value added services provider that specializes in content delivery via USSD, SMS, and MMS. Based on their experience, the company saw that it was crucial to deploy stable services quickly to market, especially in a climate where multiple providers and operators already exist. If this is not achieved, there is a  risk of competition gaining market share because of better first-to-market approaches. To help meet these needs, the company has...