Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

If you're using the NetBeans Platform as the basis of your own applications, you are going to find this particular blog entry, applicable to NetBeans Platform 7.1, extremely interesting! When you're working with a modular framework such as the NetBeans Platform, your work consists of plugging your business logic into existing hooks provided by the framework. For example, rather than create your own Save button, you're going to want to reuse the existing Save button in the...

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There's a simple way to create a new module providing file templates such as "Simple Java File" and "Complex Java File" shown below: Here's the module structure providing the above two file templates: The "package-info.java" class (which cannot be created by the New Java Class wizard because that doesn't accept hyphens, so I had to use the New Empty File wizard instead) has this content: @TemplateRegistrations({ @TemplateRegistration(folder = "Classes", displayName =...

I've mentioned Maltego by Pinkmatter before a few times in this blog. In fact, a while ago I even wrote a tutorial describing how to reuse their very cool Flamingo toolbar, read about it here, including a video about the toolbar explained by its author at a NetBeans Platform training course in South Africa. Today I read on the Maltego Blog that a subset of Maltego is being released under the name Maltego CaseFile. The beta version was released about two weeks ago. Watch this...

Mathieu Bastian, from the Duke's Choice Award winning Gephi project, told me about yet another NetBeans Platform application (a.k.a. YANPA) this week. Action Science Explorer, created at the University of Maryland, generates readily-consumable surveys of different scientific domains and topics, targeted to different audiences and levels. The development team created an infrastructure for automatic summarization of research domains that links bibliometric lexical link...

Want the source code for the above? Take the SwingInterop JavaFX sample I referred to a few blog entries ago and copy the browser-related bits from the sample into a TopComponent and then you're done: public final class BrowserTopComponent extends TopComponent { private Pane browser; private static JFXPanel browserFxPanel; private static final int PANEL_WIDTH_INT = 675; private static final int PANEL_HEIGHT_INT = 400; public BrowserTopComponent() { ...

The scenario that's taken JavaOne Latin America by storm is this JavaFX application, hooked up to MySQL and deployed to GlassFish: It really speaks to the imagination, doesn't it? It's a sales application with lots of JavaFX gadgets, such as the expanding circle that you see above, indicating a new sale having been completed. The demo was shown at one of the keynotes, it's been running at the JavaFX booths, and I set it up at the NetBeans booth too. A guy in a nice suit (an...

Nodes and Properties window integrated so that when the sales property changes, the javafx.scene.chart.BarChart is updated. A screenshot of the JavaFX chart in the context of a Swing application. The up/down animations in the chart as the sales property is changed (in the JTable or in the Properties window or by renaming the Node) are pretty cool. To create the above, I started out with the Paint Application (a NetBeans RCP example distributed with NetBeans IDE), then...

Kevin Rushforth from the JavaFX team, plus others from the JavaFX team, are in the booth right next to the NetBeans booth here at JavaOne Latin America. Talking about Swing and JavaFX, etc, Kevin told me that there's a SwingInterop sample in the set of samples that come with NetBeans IDE 7.1: I had always assumed that that sample showed how to embed Swing components inside a JavaFX app. However, the opposite is now the case because the sample was rewritten at some point. Now...