Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

The history of source file visualizers on the NetBeans Platform consists, in addition to the UML, Visual Web, and Mobility support, of three significant moments—Vadiraj Deshpande's Part 3 - XML Multiview + Visual Library, Toni Epple's A Visual Datbase Explorer for NetBeans, and Damir Tesanovic's DDL Visualizer - Visualize sql script with NetBeans. Of them all, I've looked most closely at the latter of the three, recently. The basic framework of a visualizer can be extracted...

Pic from a few weeks ago at Arabic school in Cairo (left to right: me, Jun a "Doctors without Borders" worker from Tokyo, who sent me this pic, and Francesco, a university student from Italy who really likes "russ bilaban", i.e., rice with milk, which is what you can buy in little stores all over the place): I learned an incredible amount of Arabic for the time I spent there (much more than last time in Alexandria). Now, I can write Arabic (albeit badly), read it (though...

I read in this thread today about Javadoc code completion and downloaded it here and then installed it right away. As soon as I read about it, I remembered Wilfred Springer on the plane with me to JavaOne last year. We happened to be sitting next to each other and the very first thing he complained about was the lack of Javadoc code completion in the IDE. Well, Wilfred, look here: And here with some documentation: Hurray! Congratulations, Radosław Smogura.

Use the Web Service Vendor Registration Plugin if you have a web service that you'd like to integrate into the IDE. Essentially, you paste a WSDL file into a wizard (provided by the plugin), an XML file is generated into your plugin's source structure, which puts a new item in the palette, after you register the XML file, install your plugin, and restart the IDE. Then, when the user drags and drops the item from the palette into the editor, a RESTful resource is created by...

Let's say you create a new NetBeans module to provide (among other things) file templates to your users. How do you get your file templates to appear in the list that appears when you right-click a project node and choose New? For example, how do you ensure that a template called "AbcTestTemplate.test" appears in that list, as shown below: Answer: org.netbeans.spi.project.ui.PrivilegedTemplates You need to implement the above interface and then add it to the project's lookup....

One of the most hidden features of NetBeans IDE 6.0 is... a framework for web service providers to integrate their web services into the IDE. To understand what that means, look at this screenshot: I added the Daily Dilbert web service from eSynaps to the palette. (The other ones you see above are there by default.) The palette only contains these web service items if (1) you have the RESTful Web Service plugin installed and (2) an appropriate REST resource class is open in...

Information for extending the REST Web Service Component Palette: REST Web Service Component Palette CreatePartnerWebServiceModule RESTPartnerSvcRegistration I want to turn the information described above into a tutorial soon.

The nice people at Dapper are holding a series of competitions, as part of the upcoming (free!) DapperCamp conference (February 4-5 in San Francisco). One of the competitions gets you to create a NetBeans plugin that interacts with Dapper. All the info you need for participating in this particular competition can be found here: NetBeans plugin for Dapper I looked through that page and tried to understand the suggestions they've got there for various types of NetBeans...

A "hello world" implementation of org.apache.tools.ant.module.spi.AntLogger:Create a module project. Set a dependency on a module called "Ant" and a module called "I/O APIs". Create a Java class and extend org.apache.tools.ant.module.spi.AntLogger. Override the methods interestedInSession, interestedInAllScripts, interestedInTargets, targetStarted, and targetFinished. Implement them like this: @Overridepublic boolean interestedInSession(AntSession session) { return true;}@Ov...