Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Next, on our virtual world tour of NetBeans Platform applications, we travel to the Middle East. Here we find a software package that is used for managing a municipality's water, waste water piping, and water subscriptions. In short, a water management system. Here's a screenshot, with some nice Arabic script, proving the NetBeans Platform's support for Arabic (as well as Persian and Hebrew). Click the image for a closer look: My basic Arabic comprehension tells me that the...

A big weakness in the previous blog entry was that I specified a particular folder in the layer ("Actions/MyActions") as being the one of interest. Now... let's handle things differently. We'd like to build up a list of JMenuItems and JPopupMenu's for display when the menu item or toolbar button are clicked. Rather than forcing everyone to register their actions in the same folder in the layer.xml, let's simply tell them they need to add an attribute to their action...

Let's create a slightly more complex menu item and toolbar button in a NetBeans Platform application. They'll look like this: Here's the definition of this action: public final class AddAction implements ActionListener, Presenter.Toolbar, Presenter.Menu {//The action that will be invoked is defined in the layer.xml, //as the first action within "Actions/MyActions": Action newTaskAction = Utilities.actionsForPath("Actions/MyActions").get(0);//Icon will be reused, so set...

Next on our endless journey through all the world's NetBeans Platform applications is the Climate Monitor created at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark. Here's a screenshot: And a description: Climate Monitor is a generic platform for analyzing various plant processes, climate factors and keeping quality of greenhouse plants. The program is designed such that it allows easy integration of new analysis models and new sources of data. It...

I've been reading about Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories this weekend, in particular about its NAOMI project. First, where does that project fit in and which organizations are involved in it:"Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories' (LM ATL) NAOMI project is part of Lockheed Martin's Corporate Software Technology Initiative (STI) and is developed in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana...

During the time Toni and I were giving a NetBeans Platform Certified Training in Belgrade, Serbia, the students from the NetBeans User Group Serbia made several small movies, amongst which was a pretty long interview with Toni and myself. And today I found they've posted the whole interview on YouTube and on their site. Here it is the whole interview, in which questions such as the following are asked and answered: "Who are you and what do you do?" "What are the main...

Great support again from Kevin Farnham, who is the managing editor over at java.net and owner of of Lyra Technical Systems, Inc. In his blog, he published the following two days ago: Geertjan Discovers Raytheon Applying NetBeans in Mission Critical U.S. Department of Defense Software Geertjan Wielenga pointed out the Raytheon Virtual Control enterprise management and control system, "yet another NetBeans Platform application in the defense sector." I'm sure I must have sent...

The blog you are now reading began on 1 April 2005. And here's the slightly inauspicious first blog entry, together with the obligatory "Who Am I" thingy, which I've changed several times since then: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/date/20050401 And this is today's blog entry, i.e., this one you are now reading: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/date/20100401 I've learnt an unlikely amount of things via blogging. I've learnt, more than anything, that an organization that...

Yet another NetBeans Platform application (discovered by Tom Wheeler) is OpenSim, which is described as follows in its 300+ page user guide: OpenSim is a freely available software package that enables you to build, exchange, and analyze computer models of the musculoskeletal system and dynamic simulations of movement. OpenSim version 1.0 was introduced at the American Society of Biomechanics Conference in 2007, and with version 2.0, an application programming interface (API)...