Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

What is the most efficient way to do this? Right now, I've pared my Groovy code down to this: import groovyx.net.ws.WSClientclass ShakesWsClient { String play, speaker, words void findQuote(searchString){ def proxy = new WSClient("http://www.xmlme.com/WSShakespeare.asmx?WSDL", ShakesWsClient.class.classLoader) proxy.initialize() def speech = new XmlParser().parseText(proxy.GetSpeech(searchString)) play = speech.PLAY.text() speaker =...

Since writing How to Create a Swing CRUD Application on NetBeans Platform 6.8, I've come to realize that more end-to-end scenarios like that are needed. So here's the next one I'm working on—a Shakespeare quote client. The web service is accessed via Groovy, which is also used to parse the result. All that (two Groovy JARs, plus a JAR containing the Groovy class that defines the interaction with the web service) is in one module. In a second module, the UI is provided, i.e.,...

With the release of NetBeans IDE 6.8 (today) (hurray!) the time has come to reveal the winner of the NetBeans IDE 6.8 screenshot competition. OK, no one knew about this competition because I just invented it myself, plus I am the winner as well, so go figure. Here's the screenshot: That's Lombok... i.e., forget about typing (and updating!) getters, setters, hashCode, toString, because Lombok does that for you. All you need to do is add an annotation to the class, type...

Integrating a database into a Swing application is a very standard thing to want to do. How (and does?) the NetBeans Platform help? On NetBeans Zone you can read an article based on an updated NetBeans Platform tutorial, which takes you through each and every little step involved in creating a CRUD application that looks exactly like this: Or, if you prefer, like this: Complete source code is also provided (created and uploaded to Kenai today): http://kenai.com/projects/nbcustome...

Here I recently drew attention to a job opening for porting a Swing application to the NetBeans Platform. Now, here is another job opening relating to the NetBeans Platform, again one where you need to react quickly: We need someone to rewrite one MS Access application into Netbeans Rich Client Platform. The app is targeted to presales with some Customer Relationship Management functionalities. We will provide the basic database structure and snapshots of the...

Just when I was thinking what I should blog about today, I was told about this blog entry published today by Jim Parkinson, Sun VP: "With the release of NetBeans 6.8, you'll see a more public effort to support the Platform as a product. This is being driven by overwhelming support, by our customers and the open-source user community. Thank you to the community members who tirelessly use, support and improve the NetBeans Platform. You can see the NetBeans Platform in action at...

Visual Acorn is a bioinformatics project on the NetBeans Platform. It is part of a larger project, called ACORN. ACORN, managed by Jacek Sroka (University of Warsaw) and Andrzej Kierzek (Surrey University), is a grid-based web server for constraint-based modeling and visualization of genome scale metabolic reaction networks. The developer behind Visual Acorn is Mateusz Markowski, a student from one of the courses Karol Harezlak and I did in Poland, for the Warsaw JUG on...

As Toni reported here, we were in Zurich end of last week, where we gave a 1 hour introduction to the NetBeans Platform to the Swiss JUG. There were just under 30 people in attendance, some with a NetBeans Platform background, some with an Eclipse RCP background, some with a JSR-296 background, and some without foreknowledge of these frameworks. Here's a pic of me and the group, taken by Toni: Above, you see me discussing the NetBeans Platform screenshots page. More pics in Ton...

Time for some statistics on book sales relating to the NetBeans Platform: "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform", published in 2007. "We've shipped 3,097 copies in the US and 1,005 internationally. Total shipments--4,102," writes Greg Doench, from Prentice Hall, the publisher. Pretty impressive numbers, one can assume at least several 100 NetBeans Platform applications coming out of a statistic like that. Greg Doench ends his e-mail with the words:...