Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

One of the many people I met at JavaOne was NetBeans Platform developer Mark Claassen. (I'd still like to interview him about his NetBeans Platform experiences, just like I did with Chad Dorkin, as evidenced in the interview published yesterday entitled "Semiconductor Validation Engineering on the NetBeans Platform".) Mark was concerned that NetBeans IDE seemed to be missing a number of very crucial plugins or that those plugins had not been adequately advertized. Here's my...

I added some issues to the NetBeans MigLayout project today, using NetBeans IDE: Then I went to the site on-line and saw that everything had been done as I'd have expected it to: Pretty handy, being able to handle that, as well as view my issues and so on, from inside the IDE. The only strange thing is the ID number. I'd have expected them to start at 1, instead of 522.

I'm going to be at FISL in Brazil next week: Hope to see you there!

The series of quizes especially for those who have taken the NetBeans Platform Certified Training has now reached its third edition. Click here for part 1 and click here for part 2. And here is part 3, the questions and the answers, followed by the winners of this quiz. Each of the quizes has a theme. This time, the theme was 'Useful Links for NetBeans Platform Developers'. Therefore, if you're developing on top of the NetBeans Platform, you're bound to find a couple of...

I started creating a small module that integrates MigLayout into the IDE. That won't help Groovy developers at all, since the GUI Builder generates Java code (and that is unlikely to change). However, it will help Java developers who want to use MigLayout as their LayoutManager. Already a couple of things are possible—when you create a Swing container in the Matisse GUI Builder, you can set MigLayout as your LayoutManager: You'll find you have a new node for the layout you...

During the time I spent doing demos at the NetBeans Booth during JavaOne, each and every Maven user I spoke to was amazed when I showed them this: That POM dependency graph feature is part of NetBeans IDE 6.7. And how much does it cost? Nothing at all. "And that's a pretty good price," someone told me when I showed them the above... In other news. Click here to listen to a 20 minute radio show at JavaOne where Tori Wieldt interviews me about upcoming features in NetBeans...

Thanks to an intervention by Andres Almiray, I now have the Griffon wizard/db example working as I'd expect it to. The wizard's first step is filled from a database, when a selection is made in the drop-down two labels below it are updated with additional info about the current selection: Here's the code, especially the parts in bold: import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayoutimport ca.odell.glazedlists.\*import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListenerimport java.util.Mapimport...

I've solved several problems I had with integrating a db into a Griffon wizard, with this result: In other words, though I can successfully populate a drop-down list with customer names and put related city and state information into the output, I am unable to bind that output to the related text fields. I wonder how the @Bindable annotation works in the context of wizards. Or maybe it should be solved in a different way. Here's conf/DataSource.groovy: dataSource { url =...

Let's make the Griffon wizard a bit more realistic than in yesterday's example. Use the same approach as outlined yesterday to create a second panel in the wizard. When prompted for a name, type "Two". In the controller, change the action to the following: def action = { evt = null -> def wizard = wizard( title: "Customer Order Wizard", pages: ["One", "Two"], resultProducer: [ //The Cancel button cancels: cancel: { settings -> ...