Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

A terminal window is handy to have in an application. Here's what you need to select in the "ide" cluster of your NetBeans Platform application: Then click the Resolve button. Run your application and you'll see the new menu item highlighted below, which opens the terminal window, as can be seen here:

The NetBeans/Jmol project (which I've blogged about a few times already this week) has already proven its value! I was using Javeleon with it, discovered several problems, and reported them to Allan and the Javeleon guys. They downloaded the NetBeans/Jmol project and reproduced the bugs I had encountered. Install Javeleon today, working for NetBeans IDE 7.1 and JDK 7: http://javeleon.org/javeleon-for-netbeans-7.1/ Make sure you see this in your Plugin Manager, i.e., the...

From today, go to the NetBeans IDE download page, make very sure to refresh (i.e., drop your browser cache), and you will see the list of supported languages for NetBeans IDE 7.1: Note that also the community supported languages, e.g., German, are now in the list, in addition to the official languages supported. If you choose German, or any other community supported language, you'll get one big download that includes all the localized JARs for all the translations (i.e.,...

About NetBeans IDE 7.1, its highlights and a discussion on its main features, and related topics, I was interviewed recently during JavaOne Latin America by Tori from the Oracle Technology Network: And by Roger from the Java Spotlight Podcast: http://blogs.oracle.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_64_netbeans

You can get pretty far without much coding, if you start off with a JavaCC grammar file and want to end up with an editor for your language, as these two new tutorials show: http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-javacc-lexer.html http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-javacc-parser.html These tutorials are based on some notes in the Wiki, created by various NetBeans Platform developers. That document should now be considered obsolete and the above two documents replace...

As you can see below, Jmol now has a window system, so that multiple molecules can be open simultaneously. Handy for viewing (e.g., the windows can be undocked from the frame of the application and moved around, also outside of the frame onto other monitors) and possibly also for molecular comparisons of various kinds: But what's even cooler than that is the way the explorers on the left (i.e., the data providers) interact with the editor windows (i.e., the Jmol viewers). Here...

Wouldn't it be cool if you could plug new windows into Jmol, each providing access to a different database, or any other kind of data source, from which the provider would create its own Jmol script? One data source could provide a list of proteins, another a list of generic molecules, and yet another some other kind of subset of data relevant to Jmol. Then, the display window would detect when a new item in a data provider has been selected, which would result in the...

Here's Jmol, an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D, on the NetBeans Platform, benefiting from its module system, extensibility, loose coupling, windowing management, and ecosystem (e.g., now you can install space invaders from plugins.netbeans.org into Jmol). And I imagine that other NetBeans Platform applications, such as Instant JChem, might find it interesting to have Jmol plugged into their application too, which is now completely possible.  The left...

Well, after Part 1, i.e., two years ago, it was time to have another NetBeans Platform course in Amsterdam! Last time the course was held at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, which ultimately led to Ralph Benjamin Ruijs moving from Amsterdam to Prague and joining the NetBeans Java Editor team and Ingmar Hendriks writing a whole bunch of amazing NetBeans Platform applications and plugins, currently the RS232 Communication Plugin for embedded developers, which Oracle Senior...