Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In the past, you'd integrate your own action into the NetBeans Platform's CutAction like this, i.e., by using a TopComponent's ActionMap: final ActionMap actionMap = instance.getActionMap();CallbackSystemAction callCutAction = (CallbackSystemAction) SystemAction.get(CutAction.class);actionMap.put(callCutAction.getActionMapKey(), new AbstractAction() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { NotifyDescriptor.Message msg = new...

One of the interesting enhancements to the NetBeans Platform in NetBeans Platform 6.5 was the fact that you can now use the standard JDK ActionListener class when creating 'aways enabled' menu items and toolbar buttons in your NetBeans Platform applications. In the next release of the NetBeans Platform, i.e., after 6.7, this will go a step further. When you create 'conditionally enabled' actions, such as those that appear in the Java editor's contextual menu, you will be able...

Back from vacation, trying to catch up on everything, and found out about hyperlink support for stack traces in Kenai chat. Fetched all changes to my hg clone and rebuilt the IDE, with the following result, i.e., clicking a stack trace hyperlink in Kenai chat opens the related line in the editor: Pretty cool!

Milos Kleint contributed some patches to http://nbwicketsupport.dev.java.net that will make it easier to integrate Wicket support in Maven web artifacts in NetBeans IDE. There's still one or two small problems with it, but here's a preview—you will be able to create everything you see below via 2 wizards (plus the Wicket filter is registered automatically in web.xml): I was looking at the graph you see above and I noticed that reddish color. Didn't seem very healthy. So I...

I am happy to announce the permanent separation between Nodes and SaveCookies. If you're not happy with this announcement, then you're unlikely to benefit much from this blog entry. :-) (But here is a tiny bit of background.) Using a build from sometime after the beginning of this month (or just update your trunk), I was able to do this: ......... private InstanceContent content; private SaveCookieImpl impl; public DemoTopComponent() { initComponents(); ...

I've made a (brave) attempt to consolidate everything I know about creating projects for NetBeans Platform applications into two tutorials: NetBeans Project Type Module Tutorial NetBeans Ant-Based Project Type Module Tutorial Since the new annotations are used in these tutorials, you must use NetBeans Platform 6.7 if you want to create projects via these tutorials. (Using the 'old' way is not much different, though. Replace the annotations by appropriate META-INF/services...

My inbox is literally stuffed with news from developers working with the NetBeans Platform. Not one of them writes to say 'Hey, I have a cool Struts application created in NetBeans IDE.' Each and every one of them, without exception, writes to say 'Hey, I'm working on a cool NetBeans module to extend NetBeans IDE' or 'Hey, I'm working on a cool application on top of the NetBeans Platform.' In fact, it is pretty obvious that the NetBeans Platform is a lot more inspiring than...

The book recently released by Apress, entitled 'The Definitive Guide to NetBeans Platform' was a community translation. What that means is that the original book was written in German (by someone from the NetBeans Platform community, i.e., an independent person, Heiko Boeck, unrelated to Sun Microsystems) and that the NetBeans Platform community translated that book (unpaid) to English. (That happened in the space of one very intense month.) The book was released at JavaOne...

I received a set of screenshots from Sven Reimers, System Engineer and Software Architect for ND SatCom GmbH, in Germany. The screenshots show the massive network satellite application that he and his colleagues are responsible for, consisting of over 1000 NetBeans modules plugged into the NetBeans Platform. Click each one below to see a larger image. SNM showing the wiring of the groundstation as a basis for planning: Central view: FC (Facility Control) better known as M&C or...