Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I've often done presentations where I show how NetBeans IDE can be used as a learning tool for the Java EE 6 Platform. The point I try to make in these presentations is that even if you're not using NetBeans IDE as your daily development environment, you can still use it as a Java EE 6 learning environment because it provides so many handy little tools, especially very focused code generators that are automatically aware of the code that has already been generated, and that...

I recently made a YouTube movie about the new "bulk reformat" feature in NetBeans IDE 7.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VDzvIjse8g At the end of that movie, I mentioned that Alt-Shift-F, which is the key combination for reformatting, only works in editor documents, not when nodes (e.g., project nodes, such as shown below) are selected: However, there's been a very cool enhancement to this feature: http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/97907d0789ef This enhancement is not in...

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Ordina's AgroSense, the agricultural services framework built in Java on the NetBeans Platform, is in the running for a Dutch IT Environment Award, as announced here (in Dutch). English translation: IT Environment Award 2012 On 31 May 2012, the ICT Environment organizationwill, for the fifth time, hand out the IT Environment Award, which recognizes the most interesting and innovative IT application that aims to reduce energy usage, advance recycling, and decrease...

When you click on @_sites, as you can see below, the IDE lets you open the file registered under that namespace, in this case, "/macros/sites.ftl": But I'm thinking that any FreeMarker support would be better if it were embedded in the HTML Editor. That means, the following needs to happen: Add this statement to the constructor of the FreeMarker data object, so that its MIME type is set to "text/html": getLookup().lookup(DataEditorSupport.class).setMIMEType("text/html"); Create a...

While working on the "Jump to Declaration" feature, I tried to get the coloring of the editor to be somewhat useful and harmonious (click to enlarge the image below): As you can see, above, you can hold down the mouse, move over MAX_AGE, or any other variable declared by the #assign statements at the top of the file, and then click the hyperlink, which jumps the cursor to the declaration. Code: import java.util.EnumSet;import java.util.List;import java.util.Set;import...

Now that there's syntax coloring for FreeMarker, let's take a look at hyperlink support: So, when there's an import statement, you can hold down the Ctrl key, and move the mouse over the file reference. When you do so, you automatically see a tooltip. The tooltip can be formatted via HTML, to create effects such as this: You also see a hyperlink. Click the hyperlink and the referenced file opens. For the first time I used org.netbeans.lib.editor.hyperlink.spi.HyperlinkProviderEx...