Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

The next NetBeans Platform application to be aware of is ObjectsX. It is used to create Java applications, via the maintenance of catalogues that provide access and data presentation, report generation, and a design environment. One use case of this application is the generation of passports and visa documents, as shown here for FSUE SRI (Federal State Unitary Enterprise Scientific Research Institute) Voskhod, in Russia: Do you know of other NetBeans Platform applications?...

I mentioned the new cool tools for OSGi developers on DZone recently. But today, in today's development build for NetBeans IDE 6.9, there's even more. Two new samples, demonstrating OSGi integration with NetBeans IDE Upon deployment of these samples, you have a new rich-client application that uses the NetBeans Swing components (such as TopComponent and BeanTreeView) to display the running OSGi bundles and NetBeans modules: The tutorial referred to above is this one.

The next YANPA is created by Florian Brunner and his colleagues at a Swiss IT organization: "For our customer, ACS Solutions Switzerland, I introduced the NetBeans Platform in a pilot project, where we had to build a new J2EE application client. This small application should monitor some data retrieved from some remote EJBs." Other comments on this application from Florian: "Since the NetBeans Platform is based on Swing, we could reuse some existing custom components such as...

The next interesting NetBeans Platform application to look at was released a few days ago. Kojo is a free application, running on the operating system of your choice, to "enable kids (and curious adults!)" to learn about programming: The Kojo learning environment has also raised a lot of interest in the Scala community, since it includes a Scala REPL and a Scala code editor (based on Caoyuan Deng's Scala plugin for NetBeans IDE). Read the full announcement here, which...

The next YANPA (yet another NetBeans Platform application) is... Saris PowerAgent 7.4. It's a commercial software package that you install to measure and analyze your performance when you're doing workouts on an exercise bicycle: Here, for example, you can see how to create workouts: And those workouts can be uploaded to a handheld device for storage and further analysis! Read all about it here. Thanks to nathan for bringing this application to my attention and I'm hoping to...

Today's YANPA (yet another NetBeans Platform application) was mentioned here last week in my blog... but now has a brand new (and interesting!) interview with Chris Bohme, its chief software architect and an updated screenshot, showing yet another example of OfficeLAF (by Gunnar Reinseth and Mikael Tollefsen from Exie in Norway) applied to a NetBeans Platform application: Now isn't that a seriously cool looking application? From the interview, here's the response to the...

While YANPAs are everywhere, so are PANPAs ("possibly another NetBeans Platform application") ! The first and second PANPAs turned into YANPAs. I'm less sure about this one, though. Ticom Geomatics could be providers of yet another oil/gas service application on the NetBeans Platform. Those kinds of applications are especially important to know about since those kinds of applications prove that the NetBeans Platform is able to "address situations where a high level of...

If you're travelling by train in/around Berne, Switzerland, the NetBeans Platform might be quietly at work, keeping everything running smoothly... because of Sohard AG's train management system on the NetBeans Platform. Why was the NetBeans Platform chosen as the basis of the application? "The entire information system as well as all train operations are monitored from a control center in Worblaufen. For this control center Sohard AG had to develop a client application on...

And yet another new NetBeans Platform application is a distribution mechanism on top of the NetBeans Platform for delivering chemical dictionaries. The Chemical Dictionaries are a well established source of information about molecules, including chemical, biological, physical, clinical and literature data. Informatics Matters has created an application for distributing these dictionaries on CDROM or DVD. Two screenshots (click to enlarge them): Another NetBeans Platform...