Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Build 137 of Netigso provides exactly what I was looking for. I can now create a dictionary application that uses an OSGi service for checking the entered words: Isn't that cool? Swing + OSGi on the NetBeans Platform. Marriage made in heaven? And here's the whole application structure: Here's the whole story in code. Create an OSGi bundle that defines an interface: package org.demo.dictionary.iface;public interface DictionaryInterface { public boolean checkWord(String word);} N...

Build 132 of Netigso is pretty cool—an OSGi BundleActivator is created when you use the Module Installer wizard in an OSGI Bundle project: Create OSGi Bundle project: Specify location and whether it belongs to an application: Specify unique code name, display name, localizing bundle, and optional layer.xml file: Finish the wizard and then you have the applicable OSGi keys in your manifest, as well as a dependency on the OSGi framework, so that you can reference the OSGi...

To celebrate the release of the eBook version of Heiko's "The Definitive Guide to NetBeans™ Platform", here's a crash course into the world of the NetBeans Platform. Zero NetBeans Platform knowledge is assumed. In slightly over 21 minutes, you'll learn the basic concepts, the motivations behind using the NetBeans Platform, and details about the architecture of NetBeans Platform applications. //]]]]> ]]>Related links NetBeans Platform Home NetBeans Platform Screenshots "Top 10 NetBeans APIs"...

Unquestionably one of my favorite people on earth, Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen, for his uniqueness and so on. You need to feel sorry for yourself if you're not Dutch because then you're unlikely to be able to appreciate his genius! I saw him perform live in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam some years ago and then found him doing this amazing, preposterous (here's one occasion where that word is completely appropriate), and hilarious dance to a Bach piece yesterday: Hurray for Hans...

From build #126 of Netigso, you'll see a new project template, thanks to Jaroslav Tulach: I tried it, it works, and is a pretty cool development of OSGi support in the IDE.

In the comments to yesterday's blog entry Sven Reimers pointed to yet another NetBeans Platform application that I hadn't ever heard of before: Puzzle. Puzzle is a Java Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development platform built on top of the NetBeans Platform. The main goal of Puzzle GIS is to create a free, production ready and competitive tool as a valid alternative to commercial software. Go here for all the details: http://puzzle-gis.codehaus.org/ The site asks itself...

The question of the day comes from Beijing today! Gao Ang writes: I built a Twitter NetBeans application with OpenStreetMap and NetBeans Platform 6.7 Beta. Prototype screenshot of this application is available in the attachment. I plan to update this project on kenai.com as soon as my project request is approved. I found on your blog that you also made a Twitter plugins for NB 6.5. Can I merge my code with your plugins and make the Twitter NetBeans application better? And the...

Commercial NetBeans Platform developer Bernd Ruehlicke, who I interviewed in Oil & Gas Exploration on the NetBeans Platform, sent me a few interesting links about OTHER applications in the oil & gas world that are also written on the NetBeans Platform. One of these is very well described in this document (PDF): Building a Standards-Based Visualization Framework for Customized Seismic Analysis and Quality Control Workflows The document describes INTViewer, a geology and...

The whole point of working with the @AntBasedProjectRegistration annotation at all is that you'd like the user to be able to invoke Ant targets from the Ant script belonging to the project for which you're creating the annotation: So, how to add the "Build Project" menu item to the project's contextual menu? Firstly, add the line below to the getActions() in the LogicalViewProvider: @Overridepublic Action[] getActions(boolean arg0) { Action[] nodeActions = new Action[7]; ...