Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Yesterday someone asked me the standard newbie question, along the lines of: "OK, cool, this NetBeans Platform thing seems pretty useful, but I don't 'get' it. How does everything fit together and how do I create an actual real application, just like one of those cool apps on the NetBeans Platform Showcase." Well, in all honesty, there are heaps of tutorials on the NetBeans Platform Learning Trail, including end to end tutorials, i.e., including tutorials for complete...

Back from vacation and I've found many interesting bits of news in my inbox, as well as elsewhere online, while I've been busy enough throughout today working on various things of interest worth sharing. Here's the highlights in random order. NetBeans Day at JavaOne 2012. NetBeans Day on 30 September is going to be unlike anything anyone has ever seen before, i.e., truly awesome. Very many speakers will be squeezed in to show off their projects and discuss how NetBeans has...

...and I will not be bringing my laptop. Back on Monday, August 13th!

Two NetBeans Platform developers, Bo Conroy and Adriana, mentioned at the end of my blog entry here that plugging in a new tabbed component factory doesn't work for them in their Maven-based NetBeans Platform application. The reason for that is that, in my example code, I used JTabbedPaneAdapter, which is an implementation class in "org.netbeans.core.windows". So, you could do different things. (1) Create an issue to make that class public (that's something I'll be doing...

The latest NetBeans Platform application showcased at NetBeans Zone, Zirius, the Norwegian ERP System, is illustrative of how the bare minimum of the NetBeans Platform can be used, to the point where the NetBeans Platform doesn't show through at all: On the one hand, this means that you're not leveraging the width and breadth of all that the NetBeans Platform provides. On the other hand, it takes time to migrate an application to the NetBeans Platform and the above is a...

Start spreading the news! NetBeans IDE 7.2 is out with, as always, its clean and neat user interface: Here's the top 10 features you'll find in this release: Static code analysis support, in particular, FindBugs integration. Smoother startup and faster project scanning. New, better, and faster tools throughout the Java Editor. Enhancements for Java EE developers, such as JPA code completion and PrimeFaces 3.2. Better JavaFX tools, in particular, JavaFX Scene Builder integration. Even...

Here's a great little backup tool, named BackupGoo, for your Google-related artifacts, i.e., mail, docs, contacts, and calendar: I had everything set up in seconds, on my Ubuntu machine, as well as on my Windows machine. Great application. Gets you ready for those days when the clouds are leaky: And here's the structure of the application, familiar to anyone using or creating applications on the NetBeans Platform: Would be cool if the NetBeans Platform's Favorites window...

If you want something to happen when a project conforming to your project type opens or closes, put an instance of org.netbeans.spi.project.ui.ProjectOpenedHook into your project type's lookup. The methods "projectOpened" and "projectClosed" are called when a project of your type opens or closes in your application's GUI. However, let's make it more interesting! Let's say you want to integrate a tool into NetBeans IDE, for example, that will process ANY project as soon as it...