Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I had some time to kill in Istanbul airport (which I highly recommend for its free wireless, with a cool coffee bar and nice layout throughout) and so parsed Javalobby's frontpage. Here you see the IDE's Output window, listing the URLs and titles of the articles on Javalobby's frontpage: Then I put the titles into the IDE's toolbar: When it's done, you'll be able to select a title and then the browser will open, displaying the corresponding article. (I played with Rich Unger's...

The WebFrameWorkSupport API class has changed in the 6.0 release. The biggest enhancement is that the API was changed to the status of "public, under development". Before, it was a "friend" API, even though many (including myself) were treating it as a stable API. Making it a public API shows NetBeans's commitment to maintaining this API in the future in a compatible way. The other enhancements were related to or caused by the changed status: WebFrameworkProvider.getConfigurati...

A pretty small and pointless experiment: Line 29 shows the NbPreferences class from the NetBeans APIs. In a web application. The preference is stored and loaded, however I have no idea where it is stored. Not in the NetBeans user directory, which was the point of the exercise. Maybe in internal memory or something like that. Still, despite the overhead of all the JARs, it is fun to see this on the web. There can only be very limited situations where the NetBeans APIs can be...

I put a new plugin in the Plugin Portal, under the name Spiced Up Code Completion. It lets you supplement the code completion box (for all file types) with a list of new words. You can decide what the new words are, which could be code or could be actual words, in whatever language you like. The list of supplemental code completion items is set in the Options window. And then the words end up in the code completion box, as shown below for three different file types (in this...

Several plugins in the NetBeans Plugin Portal can be used in applications other than NetBeans IDE. Sure, many of them relate to editor functionality, hence those would probably apply mainly/only to NetBeans IDE. Others, however, could be used in any other application that is based on the NetBeans Platform. Here, for example, is the YouTube Player from the Plugin Portal installed in the JFugue Music NotePad: So, if you're creating applications on top of the NetBeans Platform,...

Stone age experiments with the brand new Scene Graph API on the NetBeans Platform. Stone age in the sense that I'm just doing whatever I find in code completion to make what I need to work succeed. Okay, stone age people didn't have code completion. Never mind, bad rambling comparison. Anyway, not very finely finetuned, but I have a wandering monk, departing from the square on the left when I click it, and then moving to the right of the IDE, at which point "he" stops. Then I...

I separated seven Google Web Toolkit samples from the source files and descriptions provided by the book mentioned yesterday. Now the GWT Starter Kit provides the following: Each sample only contains the absolute minimum necessary to illustrate a very specific GWT feature. For example, the GWT Sortable Table application gives you this in a web page, i.e., there's only a table with headers that can be clicked to sort the columns, but there is nothing else (no text, no bells,...

I asked and received permission from Packt Publishing to turn the samples from "Google Web Toolkit: GWT Java AJAX Programming", by Prabhakar Chaganti, into NetBeans projects and distribute them. Great. Here's the next one, available here in the Plugin Portal, together with the one from yesterday. The new one looks as follows: Deploy it and you have an asynchronous auto complete box: A problem with many of the samples in the book is that they're intertwined, sharing some of...

I've been reading "Google Web Toolkit: GWT Java AJAX Programming" by Prabhakar Chaganti. It is a very good book, very practical, perfect for my first introduction to GWT. Did you know that NetBeans IDE has a very advanced plugin that provides a lot of support for this framework? I didn't, until today. As a result, there's a new tutorial that gets you started, as well as a plugin in the Plugin Portal. The plugin provides the sample that you get at the end of the tutorial. The...