Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Yesterday I answered one unanswered question from the Poznan NetBeans Platform Certified Training. Today, another one. It comes from Grzegorz Buszkiewicz who wants to use Maven DocCheck Plugin for a NetBeans Platform application developed in NetBeans IDE. Here's a rough guide to how I set it up and managed to get it working. Download (from here) and then unzip the DocCheck doclet JAR. On the command line, find your way to the directory where you unzipped the above JAR and then...

On the NetBeans Platform course in Poznan, students wanted to know how to navigate to NetBeans sources in a Mavenized NetBeans Platform application. I asked Milos and he told me this: "When you right-click on Libraries, it has an action called 'Download sources'. By default we don't download anything on project opening, but people are free to change the settings in Tools/Options (and suffer the performance penalty)." So, here's the menu item referred to above. Note that I...

Here's the "One Thing from Poznan" movie of the training given during the weekend by Toni Epple and myself to the Poznan JUG in Poznan, Poland. It is slightly under 10 minutes in length and consists of small clips from interviews (and other miscellaneous things) recorded during the training. So it's not a set of presentations, just funny bits and pieces, randomly picked. Quite a lot I recorded had to be dropped, otherwise the movie would have become too long. Hope you like...

While I'm working on the movie "One Thing from Poznan" (the eagerly awaited sequel to "One Thing from Devoxx", featuring many small clips from interviews at the NetBeans Platform training in Poznan, Poland), here's a panorama picture of the attendees, for your viewing pleasure: Seems to me that we (52) beat the attendee number (35) at the NetBeans Platform training at Southern Illinois University recently, though that looked unbeatable at the time: Many more cool pics from the...

Yet another NetBeans Platform application is STAR-CCM+ by CD-adapco: For computational fluid dynamics modeling, "STAR-CCM+ delivers the entire engineering simulation process in a single integrated software environment. This unique approach brings unrivalled ease-of-use and automation to CAD preparation, meshing, model set-up and iterative design studies, enabling your engineers to deliver better results, faster. Innovations such as built-in surface-wrapping,...

Three steps to an XML editor from scratch without your needing to do any coding at all:Go to File | New Project and create a NetBeans Platform application (or use the Maven archetype and open it in the IDE of your choice). Right-click the application, choose Properties, and go to the Libraries panel. In "platform11", add a checkmark for "Favorites". In "ide12", add a checkmark for "XML Text Editor" and then click the "Resolve" button. Run the application, open the Favorites...

Those wondering what happened to Roumen Strobl, can now stop wondering:

Charles Ditzel recently made an interesting point (here): "I think this year was the year of RIAs with the arrival of JavaFX, Flex/Flash and SilverLight. I think it has dawned on a lot of developers that RIAs are limiting. In my mind, they seem designed for graphic intensive web apps - but most enterprise apps are data intensive. Unfortunately I don't see JavaFX going anywhere until they fix it so that it can seamlessly support for bi-directional interoperability and...

Do you know what your users are doing with your NetBeans Platform application? Which windows are they opening? Which actions are they commonly invoking? When are they clicking the "Help" button on a dialog? Knowing the answers to these questions is crucial when determining where you should be assigning development resources. Knowing that the "Help" button is being pressed a lot for a particular feature might indicate that there is a problem with the UI that you could consider...