Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Let's drop by BTI Systems, with a development team split between Belfast and Ottawa, with a NetBeans Platform application that’s about two years old now. The application is a GUI front end for BTI's proNX Server Manager product, which is part of the proNX Management Suite. It provides a modular and scalable management solution for BTI networks and integrates seamlessly into any operating environment, providing maximum flexibility and ease-of-use. Below is a screenshot which...

Here's a completely new set of options in NetBeans IDE 7.1 for javadoc comments: Wrapping the javadoc comments to justify them with the right editor margin is now also possible, so this very popular issue is now fixed: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11553 The entire tab that you see above is new in 7.1. This new feature is also mentioned in the New & Noteworthy for NetBeans IDE 7.1.

Here's another incredibly hidden NetBeans feature. If you go to Help | Keyboard Shortcuts Card, a PDF document pops up, listing all the keyboard shortcuts predefined in NetBeans. However, what happens when you change one of those keyboard shortcuts? Now that PDF document is out of date. Wouldn't it be handy if you could export the currently defined keyboard shortcuts to an HTML file? Then you'd have that as your reference document, rather than the statically defined PDF...

Another upcoming NetBeans IDE feature, already in the daily builds, is this hint, which appears when you put the cursor in a class declaration: Similarly: When the hint is invoked, the new class, with all its required methods, is automatically generated, as a separate class (a dialog pops up letting you specify the name of the class and the package where the class should be created). How handy these small enhancements can be! This particular enhancement was included for 7.2...