Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

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?...

Working through the final details of the NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide. Things are looking good. Nice software results from following its chapters: Each window above is from a different module, yet all are synchronized. Take note of icon badging in the leftmost window, i.e., the "write a review" node is saveable, hence there's a special icon that you can see there. You'll learn a lot, for sure, from following everything described in this book.

Twitter is just about the best thing to have happened in the world of social media. Only those who don't use it would be able to come close to disagreeing with that statement. :-) In light of that, I've started a new thing called "#nbtwip": I'm hoping it will become a gathering point for quick tips and tricks involving NetBeans IDE, as well as the NetBeans Platform. The trick to creating an effective #nbtwip is to remember that the IDE is many things to many people. I.e., you...