Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

One place where NetBeans is massive is China. Every couple of weeks I see internal e-mails from China with reports about thousands of people having attended presentations or trainings in NetBeans. Today I heard that SDN China worked with partners to publish two new books on Java and NetBeans: Mastering NetBeans -- Developing Desktop, Web, and Enterprise Applications Author: Ya Feng Wu, Xin Lei Wang Publisher: Posts & Telecom Press, China ISBN: 978-7-115-13837-8 Pages: 587 This...

I received the following in an e-mail from a friend in Vienna this morning and thought that the world should be told: Inner Peace I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could well use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner peace. Dr Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished." So, I looked around my house...

Today Toni Epple released a first buildable version of Jarvis, the Jasper Visual Designer for NetBeans. I tried it last week or so, but many libraries were missing. Today, though, everything's there. Completely out of the box. Through CVS, you can get everything you need from https://jarvis.dev.java.net/. Literally, all I did was check out the sources from his CVS and then I installed the module and I was done. No separate download of Jasper, no separate download of anything...

In the Tools menu, choose Palette Manager > Swing/AWT Components. You now see this: Notice that the "Borders" category is not selected. All the other ones are selected. So select "Borders" too. Click Close. If your palette is open, close it and then open it again. Notice that you now have all your borders in the palette: And... now you can drag and drop borders onto, for example, a JPanel, such as the one above. Then the borderproperty changes immediately and shows the change...

Together with the NetBeans Platform book (which is planned to be called "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform"), we're talking about including a set of samples on a CD that will accompany the book. All the samples planned to be on the CD are discussed in one chapter or another in the book. In many cases, the chapters explain in detail how to build the sample in question. To give you a picture of the samples one can expect to find, here's a screenshot...

Thanks to integrating this wonderful web service into the IDE, I now know the meaning of programming: Now, why am I not surprised? (Some implementation details: Here the IDE is a web service client for an on-line web service. A word is sent to the web service, the definitions are returned, and are displayed in a JTextArea within a NetBeans API TopComponent class.)

Let's look at Winston Prakash's Netbeans 5.5 Tip: Create a Webservice client to find Latitude & Longitude of your city. Very nice. How about turning it into a plugin (a.k.a. "module") for NetBeans?Complete Winston's steps, but use "JAX-RPC", instead of "JAX-WS". (I couldn't get this example to work as a NetBeans module for JAX-WS, only for JAX-RPC, I don't know why, yet.) Try the result. Now build the project and look in the Files window. Expand the dist folder. You should...

Apparently there's this thing where you get tagged by someone who has to tag 5 people and then you tell the world 5 less-well-known things about yourself in your blog, after which you tag 5 other people who do the same thing in theirs. And Roumen tagged me. So here are my five deeply embarrassing, fascinating, or otherwise, factoids: I used to work for Coca-Cola (in Vienna) and now I work for NetBeans (in Prague). So I moved from the world's biggest, unhealthiest, commercial...