Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Two of the most frequently asked questions during NetBeans Platform Certified Trainings are: Can I integrate my OSGi bundles into a NetBeans Platform application? Can I integrate my EMF models into a NetBeans Platform application? Unequivocally, and for the first time, I can now reply "YES" to both these questions. OSGi can now exist alongside the NetBeans Platform's runtime container. The key to how all this is possible is below, in Jarda's own (though slightly paraphrased, by...

Yet another NetBeans Platform application in the list of bioinformatics applications on the NetBeans Platform is... drumroll... BioNessie: "BioNessie is a free, state-of-the-art platform-independent BIOchemical NEtworks Simulation and AnalySIs Environment." Clearly, it is an application on the NetBeans Platform: "It provides a full user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) which allows the user to import, create, edit and export the biochemical models with the SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language) standard. The unique Concurrent Versions System (CVS) design helps users to keep track of the version history of their SBML models during construction and subsequent modification." Read more about it here!

Mike Francois from Developpez.com recently translated into French an article I wrote on DZone. Here it is: Interopérabilité d'OSGi avec la plateforme NetBeans "Avec la sortie de NetBeans 6.9, la plate-forme de service OSGi s'est vue obtenir un support complet par l'EDI. Geertjan Wielenga, auteur technique de l'équipe NetBeans, a rédigé un article sur l'interopérabilité d'OSGi avec la plate-forme NetBeans. Ci-dessous, la traduction de son article qui je l'espère vous apprécierez...

Not all document-centric applications need a full-blown project system. So here is a small application that lets you create files. The files could open in a multiview editor, of course, but for sake of argument, let's simply open them in a plain text editor. In the end, you'll be able to open the New File dialog: ...and choose the Letter wizard, set some properties: ...which is then generated (via FreeMarker) into your template: To attain the above result, use the Wizard wizard...

Another pic from yesterday's first day of NetBeans Platform training at the University of Belgrade, Serbia: Many more pics can be found here in Boris Horvat's Picasa Web Album, with more info on the NetBeans User Group Serbia site. And, guess what, the adoption of NetBeans IDE could be increased massively if an investment were to be made in NetBeans Platform trainings. After all, the students at the University of Serbia have little interest in a training in NetBeans IDE, since...

These days Toni Epple and myself find ourselves in Belgrade, Serbia, delivering yet another NetBeans Platform Certified Training. Here's a snapshot of a class segment (from NetBeans User Group Serbia at the University of Belgrade): Several of the students are very interested in AI (artificial intelligence), since they're the team behind Neuroph, which is going to be moved to the NetBeans Platform. Maltego from South Africa (yet another AI application on the NetBeans...

YouTube movie of a preview of jMonkeyEngine Game Development Environment that is being moved to the NetBeans Platform: Follow the ongoing discussions about this work here.

Anton Epple, Aljoscha Rittner, and myself gave a NetBeans Platform Certified Training during the past 1 1/2 days at the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, in Freising, Germany. More specifically, we were at the Bioinformatikzentrum, where the students are exploring the NetBeans Platform as the basis of bioinformatics applications: Of course, they're not the first, at all, to evaluate the NetBeans Platform as the basis of bioinformatics applications, as argued by Toni in Is NetBeans...

DbWrench, which is database design and synchronization software, is clearly an application created on top of the NetBeans Platform: And, someone out there is making money on the NetBeans Platform in this case, since purchasing this application will cost you $145, while a trial version is also available. Quite a lot of work seems to have gone into this application, primarily in the porting from a previous incarnation (shown here): Must be nice, as a developer of this...