Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

For making and managing surveys, here's a screenshot of the main window of an application created for that purpose, on the NetBeans Platform: The team behind this application is Netquest, in Barcelona. Netquest specializes in online fieldwork services and state-of-the-art technology for researchers to conduct studies through the internet.

When you've included the Plain Editor modules, so that you can for example create basic code completion (as discussed here in this blog), you automatically end up with status line elements, which maybe you don't want. Here's how to fix that: import java.awt.Component;import javax.swing.JLabel;import org.openide.awt.StatusLineElementProvider;import org.openide.util.lookup.ServiceProvider;@ServiceProvider( service = StatusLineElementProvider.class, supersedes = { ...

Thanks to Henry Arousell and Jaroslav Havlin: import java.net.URL;import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;import org.netbeans.api.javahelp.Help;import org.openide.awt.HtmlBrowser.URLDisplayer;import org.openide.util.HelpCtx;import org.openide.util.lookup.ServiceProvider;import org.openide.util.lookup.ServiceProviders;@ServiceProviders({ @ServiceProvider(service = HelpCtx.Displayer.class, supersedes = {"org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.JavaHelp"}), ...

The second Release Candidate of NetBeans IDE 7.3 is out and can be downloaded now: Go to download page of NetBeans IDE 7.3 RC 2 In other words, the final release of NetBeans IDE 7.3 is not far away. Even while NetBeans IDE 7.3 is currently still going through the last test cycles, we're feeling pretty good about it! Several serious issues and performance problems have been fixed over the past weeks, so if you have been using an older build of NetBeans IDE 7.3, please install...

Pursuer is a US Air Force "government-off-the-shelf" system based on NASA's World Wind software package. Pursuer provides an intuitive interface for viewing several different layers of imagery, including pre-existing maps, reference imagery, and recently collected imagery, all placed within geographical context (similar to Google Earth). Pursuer was developed by the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and is built upon the NetBeans Platform and NASA World...

Recorded today in Prague, Czech Republic, with Jaroslav Tulach, NetBeans founder and NetBeans API designer: Related info: http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Bck2Brwsr

Following on from this blog entry, where you'll also find the link to the sources, the base GeoToolkit application now looks as follows on Ubuntu: It's a cool starting point for anyone creating geospatial applications with GeoToolkit.

Terence Parr, the ANTLR guy, sent out an e-mail a couple of days ago, starting with these words: "After 25 years, I think I've finally got the parser generator I've been looking for! Sam Harwell, ANTLR co-author, and I are very pleased to announce the release of ANTLR v4." He continues: "Sam has built a really nice development environment based upon NetBeans, ANTLRWorks v2." And here's what it looks like: It's cool, very powerful, and absolutely free. More info about the above...

VNIIRA, located in St. Petersburg, Russia, has created an ATC (air traffic control) system in Java on the NetBeans Platform, which has been installed at the newly constructed Talakan Airport in Sakha Republic, Russia. The application is the client of the ATC system, named "Sintez KSA", i.e., it is known as the "Sintez KSA" client. The system allows tracking of hundreds of flights using primary and secondary surveillance radars. Its users are flight executiveofficers and...