Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Let's say you're me and you find yourself frequently creating presentations. But you tend to lose one or other of the OpenOffice document or the PDF document (seldom both, like socks, so you end up with the PDF document on its own, like a relatively useless odd sock). Plus, whether or not you lose one, isn't it a pain that you've got to do everything in two formats... first in OpenOffice and then in PDF? And then you need to store both documents, even though they have the...

After yesterday's introduction, I figured it out so that my Facet is now correctly registered: First, add one new tag to the plugin.xml and don't be distracted by the fact that it isn't recognized (i.e., it is highlighted in red as an error, even though it isn't an error): <idea-plugin version="2"> <name>Plugin name here</name> <description>short description of the plugin</description> <version>1.0</version> <vendor>YourCompany</vendor> <idea-version since-build="8000"/> ...

Not everyone uses NetBeans IDE, but should still be able to extend NetBeans Platform applications, such as Java VisualVM. Here's a first step, getting "VisualVM Plugin" into the IntelliJ New Module dialog (look at the final entry below): Ultimately, the user will create a new Java project, click the "VisualVM Plugin" checkbox above, and then all the files that define a VisualVM plugin will be added to the Java project (i.e., VisualVM API libraries on the classpath, new...

In situations where there is no access to etc/netbeans.conf, you can pass in those settings via VM options: -Dnetbeans.user="/home/geertjan/foo/bar" Then the user directory, in this case, will be created in the specified location. Now to figure out what the VM option for the installation directory is (probably -Dnetbeans.home). In case you're wondering, I'm trying to figure out how to start a NetBeans Platform application from a different IDE, which means that...

Today's question of the day comes from Honza Pozivil, who writes the following about Javadoc: "If I use Lookup (org.openide.util.Lookup), I want it to be clickable and link to the NetBeans site. Right now, it doesn't create any links to classes outside my project." So, I downloaded the NetBeans sources from Mercurial and registered the main folder containing them like this, in the NetBeans Platform Manager: That enabled me to use the "@inheritDoc" attribute, which works in the...

The first NetBeans Platform Student Quiz was followed by... the second NetBeans Platform Student Quiz. Below are the questions! The theme of this quiz was NetBeans API Javadoc. Simply be reading the Javadoc the whole quiz could be answered quite easily. See if you can answer them, before looking at the answers that follow. And note that all the suggested answers are REAL NetBeans API classes (i.e., I didn't make any of them up): I want to create hyperlinks in the Output...

After another good day at the JUG training held at the The Silesian University of Technology (Politechnika Śląska), Karol and I made our way back to Prague. The content of the 2nd day of the NetBeans Platform Training was as follows: Window System API System FileSystem API Miscellaneous Topics Groovy Wicket Grails Griffon Lunch (pizza) Visual Library API Fixing Issues in Issuezilla Other Miscellaneous NetBeans APIs Ideas for Student Projects One of the highlights for me was meeting...

Karol Harezlak and I are in Gliwice, which is near Katowice, in Poland for another NetBeans Platform Certified Training, as described here in the Polish on-line invitation. There's somewhere between 30 and 40 students, the room is completely packed. It's being organized by the local OSUM leader Zacheusz Siedlecki, together with the Silesian JUG, in particular with Marek Kliś, who was the main organizer. I met Zacheusz in Prague a few weeks ago for the campus ambassador get...

I abandoned the scattershot approach I used in previous years and ended up focusing on a very small number of submissions. (Because last year I almost killed myself at JavaOne, after all 5 or 6 or so of my submissions got accepted, plus I had the most massive jetlag imaginable. On the upside, I watched all the movies that hadn't made it yet to the Czech Republic, at 3 AM on the hotel TV. The downside included almost falling asleep in the middle of my own BOF.) So, this year,...