Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Using 6.5 Milestone 1: The result when you run the application above:

One big improvement in 6.5 that you're unlikely to hear about (anywhere else) is this very significant improvement (among several others) in the NetBeans Matisse GUI Builder—you can let Matisse generate code without fully qualified names. That's something I've wanted a long time, as well as others I've seen commenting on this online. Simply choose Tools | Options | GUI Builder and then uncheck the "Generate Fully Qualified Names of Classes" checkbox. The result is that when...

In addition to Getting Started with Spring RCP, I've now also written Getting Further with Spring RCP. It's pretty interesting what Spring RCP can do for your Swing applications. This part covers Spring RCP dialogs, the Form Builder, and rules based validation, with this result: I'm looking forward to getting even further with it...

I made a small typo (springrpctooling instead of springrcptooling), but aside from that glitch, it's all good and the sources are now available here, graduated from the Java Tools incubator: https://springrpctooling.dev.java.net/index.html

Lloyd and I will be recording another NetBeans Podcast during this week. You can expect several new segments in the upcoming podcasts, such as a recurring segment by Jaroslav Tulach (the original NetBeans API architect) where he will share a tip related to his upcoming API Design book. However, you have all of this week to... send the ANSWER to the previous NetBeans Podcast puzzler! The puzzler was set in the 42nd minute of the podcast and this time you can win... a copy of Ri...

Spring RCP tooling in the Plugin Portal, since today, which makes sense in combination with Getting Started with Spring RCP, a tutorial that is available on Javalobby.

Over on NetBeans Zone today, I speculated about one interesting scenario that is possible in relation to the new Quick Search feature—plugging the NetBeans User FAQs into the Quick Search. Well, I figured out how to do it and this would be the result: So, the user would be curious about CVS in NetBeans IDE. The user would then type "CVS" and get (1) all the related FAQs, as well as (2) the action for opening the CVS window. Many similar results could be imagined, combining...

The 6.5 Milestone 1 New and Noteworthy document (which is a work in progress since 6.5 M1 has not yet been released and is scheduled for release during the coming weeks) talks, among many other things, about something called "Quick Search". The description says: "Quickly search for action or type is now easy. Use Ctrl-I." The two related documents are in the Wiki and on NetBeans.org. So, wherever you are in the IDE, you're able to press Ctrl-I, then you find that the cursor...

One of the many people I met at the NetBeans booth in Manila last week was Nestor Fernandez: Nestor is interested in using NetBeans for BlackBerry development. Can someone tell him what he should do to get started? One thing is to google for answers. I found several articles and blog entries, including these: Calling All BlackBerry Developers - NetBeans Grants BlackBerry Development Using NetBeans Blackberry Development Using NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 However, there doesn't seem...