Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Satlantic is an ocean technology company that develops optical sensors for aquatic research and water quality monitoring. Satlantic instruments are shipped with easy to use software for instrument setup, data logging, and processing.  Each software product is custom built for the various tasks that are typically performed.  The software assists in collecting and processing data from complex instruments in harsh aquatic environments. A lot of the software at Satlantic is written...

CIRSE stands for "Configurable Interface for a Robotic Simulation Environment". The aim of the project is to develop a highly configurable application to simulate robotic manipulation tasks. Source code: http://code.google.com/p/cirse/ Screenshot: Development of the project started in September 2010 at the Instituto Tecnologico de Veracruz (ITVer), Mexico. Tito and the rest of the NetBeans Platform team at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, where...

Mongkie is an integrated network visualization platform which enables the interactive analysis of interconnected biological data: Though a lot of applications on the NetBeans Platform have already been identified in the bioinformatics domain, what's especially interesting is that quite a few of them explicitly position themselves as platforms, rather than applications. In particular, take a look at BioBeans, by Gene Infinity, which consists of multiple platforms on top of each...

4Vending by Vendidata is a specialized solution, created on top of the NetBeans Platform, for managing vending businesses. Almost every business process can be carried out efficiently with the help of 4Vending and its sophisticated tools. Whether you're dealing with parts management, vending machine configuration and composition, customers, suppliers, employees, calculation of commissions and subventions, wearing part management, calculating and accounting rent and...

Piraso is an open source development tool, created on the NetBeans Platform, for debugging and analyzing request context log information captured from a supported Java web application. Piraso supports SQL and log4j context monitoring. Screenshots (click to enlarge them): SQL Data. SQL Statements. log4j Data. Piraso provides developers with real-time application context information. Developers can do debugging, performance validation, and monitoring in all environments, even in...

SafetyMach is technical support software for machines, equipment manufacturers, and designers, in relation to requirements defined by the EC Machines Directive 2006/42/CE. The software guides designers along the machine's CE markings, following the safety rules of the Machines Directive and the relevant technical norms. More screenshots: http://www.safetymach.com/print-screen.html SafetyMach is a Studio Favari product developed by GeaSoftware, both of which are based in and...

Yet another NetBeans Platform Certified Training course recently took place, for the second time at the University of Würzburg, Germany. A student from the previous course, Lorenz Weber, who subsequently created the first versions of the batch refactoring tools in NetBeans IDE (https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25377), arranged the course. As always the course covered the NetBeans Platform standards, from modularity to loose coupling and pluggability, from nodes...

It is now 8 years since I started this blog, i.e., it was 31 March 2005 when, inspired by my colleague at the time Roumen Strobl, I hesitantly began my existence as a blogger: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/date/200503 What pearls of wisdom do I have to show for these 8 years of blogging? Not only have I been blogging, more or less daily, for 8 years, but I have done so almost exclusively about one very specific software product, i.e., of course, NetBeans IDE. Come to think...

Let's extend the example referred to yesterday. We'll let the user connect widgets with each other, after the Ctrl key is pressed and the mouse is moved from one widget to another. Add the below to the AccountBuchWidget class: private class AccountBuchConnectProvider implements ConnectProvider {     @Override     public boolean isSourceWidget(Widget source) {         return source instanceof AccountBuchWidget                 && source != null ? true : false;     }     @Override ...