Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

When you use the Window wizard in the IDE to create a new TopComponent, you'll find an Action that looks something like this, registered in your layer.xml file, without any Java source file for the Action class being created in your module: <folder name="Actions"> <folder name="Window"> <file name="org-netbeans-feedreader-FeedAction.instance"> <attr name="instanceCreate" methodvalue="org.openide.windows.TopComponent.openAction"/> <attr...

I'm working on a branch to provide better layer documentation. This is the official place for the layer documentation, available from the NetBeans Javadoc landing page: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/layers.html And here's my version, constantly in flux, note that I am focusing on good descriptions and examples (and explanations of those examples). Check back to this link every few days and you'll start noticing improvements, hopefully: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/...

Serena Dimensions support in NetBeans IDE, would it be similar to Subversion and Mercurial, as follows? The above is based on the skeleton versioning support plugin from here: http://versioncontrol.netbeans.org/cookbook.html Any advice from Serena Dimensions users about whether I am doing the right thing? And how do I get hold of the Serena Java Client APIs, as well as a test repository so that I can add some real functionality to the above skeleton?

Hunts around the web and interactions with developers have brought up a big bunch of lesser known NetBeans RCP applications. Or actually, of course, these applications are very well known within their domain, but less known as being NetBeans RCP applications. In recent weeks, where possible, the developers behind these applications have written a few words about their work and have shared a few screenshots on NetBeans Zone. Here's a list of recently published NetBeans Zone...

Oracle TechCast LIVE with Justin Kestelyn, this time focusing specifically on NetBeans, is going to be starting in 20 minutes or so: Click here to get to the above page.

Instead of manually downloading the 'harness' and 'platform' clusters (as described in part 1), when setting up a NetBeans Platform, you can also simply use an Ant target: <property name="netbeans" value="/home/geertjan/projects/netbeans-rcp"/><property name="bootstrap.url" value="http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/netbeans/harness/tasks.jar"/><property name="netbeans.updatecenter.url" ...

A typical stumbling block for newbies to Lookup goes like this: you've created a Result object and then set a LookupListener on that object. Now you're listening to the context (of the application or of a specific window) and then... nothing happens! You then find yourself adding the line in bold below: @Overridepublic void componentOpened() { result = Utilities.actionsGlobalContext().lookupResult(Customer.class); result.addLookupListener(this);resultChanged(new...

I'm spending today and tomorrow in Ouagadougou (pop. 1 475 223), capital of Burkina Faso, in west Africa, thanks to Constantin Drabo, who organized the NetBeans Platform Certified Training here: Here are some more pics of students on the course: Above: Emmanuel, Ouoba, and Patrick. Above: Emmanuel, Hyacinthe, Ouoba. Above: Konombo Unfortunately, I wasn't at the University of Ouagadougou in person. Instead, I was in Prague, Czech Republic, communicating with my class via Skype and...

It's high time and long overdue, yet here are instructions on how to get started using the NetBeans Platform... without using NetBeans IDE.Download the NetBeans Platform. Go here, download it, and unzip into a folder: http://netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?filename=zip/moduleclusters/netbeans-6.9-201006101454-ml-platform.zip Download the NetBeans Platform Build Harness. Into the same folder where you downloaded the above, unzip this: http://netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?...