Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Yet another NetBeans Platform application comes from South Africa... the Maltego client, a "frontend used to graphically allow you to look at various inter-relationships between data". Maltego itself is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It is an application for data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information in an easy to understand format. Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego allows you to identify key...

Recently I mentioned the E-Mail Management System that is part of a customer service suite provided by Artificial Solutions in Stockholm Sweden: However, it turns out that that same organization also has inventory management software on the NetBeans Platform. Their internal Time Reporting, Project Management and Resource Allocation system is based on the NetBeans Platform, while they've worked on quite a few different prototypes and mock-ups, using the NetBeans Platform as a...

In case you missed it, there's a new interview/article on NetBeans Zone entitled "Airport Operation Management on Oracle and the NetBeans Platform". You'll find out about two NetBeans Platform applications created by AirIT in Orlando, FL, for managing airports and passengers. AirIT's solutions are operational at many airports around the world including Detroit, Minneapolis, Memphis, Philadelphia, Miami, Puerto Rico's, Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, Frankfurt, Berlin,...

The Swedish Defence Research Agency is a Swedish government agency for defence research that reports to the Ministry of Defence. In this document (or herein Swedish) you can read about its MOSART Research Testbed, which is a framework for integration, testing, visualization, and evaluation of research results relating to surveillance data. The primary goal of MOSART is to simplify the integration of research results and other advanced functionality into larger...

"ASTRAD, which stands for "architecture and simulation tool for radar analysis and design", is a powerful software platform fitted to radar techniques. It provides users with all the functions needed to model, simulate and design radar systems. Launched as a joint project between French Ministry of Defence and the radar industry community, the ASTRAD software has the ambition to stand out as a reference platform for engineering and scientific applications." Don't take my word...

I've come across a whole bunch of new (to me, anyway) NetBeans Platform applications in the past few weeks. Mostly commercial applications. While working on interviews with the related developers, I'm also gathering their cool screenshots for inclusion in our evergrowing NetBeans Platform Showcase. Here's one of them, from Fermax Electronica SAE, a company specializing in audio and video door entry systems. The application is designed to manage an Access Control installation...

MyDoggy is a really cool Java docking framework... and not only because of its name! Based on the recent blog entry about creating your own window system... I integrated MyDoggy into my own window system implementation... so that your application can look something like this: Yes, you see two TopComponents, synchronized explorer views, Nodes... and a completely different appearance to what you'd expect from a NetBeans Platform application (yes, it can really look like the...

With the recent developments relating to Oracle's acquisition of Sun, I thought that the tone of my blog had become too serious and technically-focused. Sometimes blog entries should be personal and just plain fun, without any business content to speak of. After all, that's how you find out about the person behind the blog and the individual behind the employee. So, it's time to turn over a new leaf. Occasionally frivolous content will now be added to this blog, since it has...

One big reason for using the NetBeans Platform is its out-of-the-box window system. However, maybe you like the concept of a window system, but not how it is implemented in the NetBeans Platform? Not to worry. You can create your own window system on top of the NetBeans Platform's Window System API, which means you'll have a custom window system that still integrates with all of the other NetBeans idioms, via ExplorerManager to explorer views (e.g., BeanTreeView) and Nodes. Ep...