Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I'm working on an article for NetBeans Zone about how the satellite software provider Amphinicy Technologies is working with SES-Astra TechCom (who own the applications) in creating applications on the NetBeans Platform. They have around 10 applications built on the NetBeans Platform, but the story discusses 5 of these (since the others are confidential for various reasons). Here's a quick sneak preview on each of these (detailed descriptions and more [and larger] screenshots...

Found this today by Fabrizio: It provides pointers for Java rich client development by someone who spends part of his time as a Swing developer and is the creator of blueMarine, an open source application for digital photo workflows. Lots of interesting topics covered, including NetBeans Lookup class and the update functionality that your application can have too for free, as well as the standard NetBeans objects such as FileObjects, DataObjects, Nodes, Explorer Views, etc.

This week Thursday I'll be at this JUGS event with Toni Epple in Zurich: To join us, register here!

Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Total revenue for the year ended 31 March 2009 was $3.9 billion. In Financial Applications on the NetBeans Platform I mentioned that Experian develops applications on the NetBeans Platform. (Their codebase consists of "over 100 NetBeans modules".) An interview done with them, about their work on the NetBeans Platform, some time ago, is being updated and should be ready...

Picture of Toni and me at Devoxx, talking about Lookup as an OSGi service registry, which is available from Kenai (here): More pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/JavaPolis.com/Devoxx2009 In other news. Watch a movie I made at the conference about interesting things learned at Devoxx: http://java.dzone.com/one-thing-from-devoxx.

Tim Boudreau did a pub-based review (PBR) of the Wicket plugin last night and here are the (somewhat cryptic) notes I took of the session: use treebuilder class enable wicket error annotations suggest next wicket id, based on what is closest import statements should be filled in by template talk to jlahoda about super class call problem HTML editor weird annotation, talk to marek fukala Told you they were cryptic. But at least I know what it all means. Need to do the above before...

IAV in Berlin, Germany, "is one of the leading providers of engineering services to the automotive industry." Their core competencies include powertrain, electronics and vehicle development. The NetBeans team gave a development group from IAV a NetBeans Platform Certified Training, in Prague, a few years ago. We contacted them about the progress of their work and today we got a very cool reply from them: "Things are going very well so far! Our tool EasyDoE Toolsuite (PDF) has...

NetBeans screencasts can be found here, which is where you end up when you type "netbeans.tv" in your browser: http://channelsun.sun.com/video/open-source/ Once you are there, click "NetBeans". If you click the small scrolling arrow below the thumbnails (look at the mouse pointer in the screenshot below) you can also get to the "Top 10 NetBeans APIs" screencast series. Or, do it the easy way and simply go to the related page on netbeans.org, where the entire series is collected...

dev@platform.netbeans.org is the new e-mail address for questions/answers relating to development on the NetBeans Platform. That means, dev@openide.netbeans.org is dead. Why? Because NetBeans went through a massive migration process during the past week, during which many obsolete projects have been removed from the site and a lot of restructuring of everything has taken place. The good news is that the whole site is now under the control of the NetBeans team, rather than a...