Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Toni has been experimenting with creating new explorer views (here). This one below is the one he got the students to create during the recent training in Goettingen. The lower view below is Toni's new explorer view, based on the Visual Library, which displays the same nodes as are displayed by the ExplorerManager that handles the upper view. My contribution is that selecting a node in the lower view synchronizes it with the upper view (i.e., a SelectProvider): public class...

InfoTerminal Configurator is a NetBeans Platform application created by Frederic Barachant for movie theaters in France. It has already been in use for about two years. Why was the NetBeans Platform used as the basis of the application? Frederic says: "It was chosen for its completeness, its openness, and its great architecture. It gave me the possibility to concentrate on the application's features." Here's a screenshot of part of the application in action (click to enlarge...

Anton Epple, Aljoscha Rittner, a large group of students, and myself have spent yesterday and today on the latest "NetBeans Platform Certified Training", during the Source Talk Tage. And here's the inevitable group pic (though not everyone in the group is in it): For the first time ever, TWO NetBeans Platform Certified Trainings are happening at the same time. You'll hopefully hear more about the other soon, it'll be a pretty interesting story—a large US-based organization is...

Some very cool support from java.net... the latest NetBeans Platform applications mentioned in this blog are highlighted on the java.net front page today by its editor, Kevin Farnham: Speaking of "software engineering at a highly significant level", another great thing is that I have permission to share slides outlining the reasons why Northrop Grumman decided to use the NetBeans Platform rather than Eclipse RCP. The company is the world’s largest military shipbuilder and...

Spectroscopy comprises any measurement of a quantity as a function of either wavelength or frequency. It is often used in physical and analytical chemistry for the identification of substances through the spectrum emitted from or absorbed by them. How do I know all this? Well, to be honest, Wikipedia. SpectraSuite from Ocean Optics is, yes, an advanced modular spectroscopy application created with the NetBeans Platform as its starting point. Moreover, "SpectraSuite is...

Quantitative Biology Tool is a SBML-compliant application on the NetBeans Platform. It supports both qualitative and quantitative modeling of biological systems. It is designed to support "the iterative nature of the scientific method, which alternates between experimentation and model refinement. Researchers may utilize either hypothesis-driven or data-driven approaches with QBT." QBT is developed by SemanticBits in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...

YANPA (Yet Another NetBeans Platform Application) is... NG-Screener, by NetGuardians in Switzerland. (Switzerland sure has a lot of stuff happening around the NetBeans Platform.) NG-Screener is a Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) appliance that enables medium-sized organizations to harness their log data resources. Really cool screenshots: The above screenshots come from the NetGuardians site. Plus, an internship was available, particularly for applicants with...

A bit of time googling and it's surprising how many unknown NetBeans Platform applications are out there. At the moment I have screenshots of a whole bunch of NetBeans Platform applications that I never knew about before. Here's one of them, by cismet GmbH in Saarbrucken, Germany. (They've been mentioned before in this blog a few times.) I especially like the tabs in the window on the right, and am trying to find out more about it: The basis of this application is the cismap cl...

I've heard some disparaging comments about using the Visual Library as a form builder, which I showed is possible a few days ago. You'd be surprised, though, at how much functionality the Visual Library offers for composing forms. Sure, not GroupLayout-like resize/repositioning. But, take a look at this: The widgets can be aligned with each other (and they can be resized), which is a typical feature one would expect in a form builder. Maybe not everything one would ever want,...