Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

It's not always easy to get just the right sample code for the NetBeans Module Development tutorials. I've been really lucky in some cases, especially with Andrei Badea's Manifest File Syntax Highlighting module (which forms the basis of the Syntax Highlighting tutorial). But today it was just as good—Dave Havrda, a colleague from the States, who I never met but regularly e-mail with, sent me a module that very nicely demonstrates the NetBeans MultiView API. Here's what it...

Welcome to Toronto, the third stop of the NetBeans World Tour! On December 5th, the NetBeans Team met in one of Canada's most modern meeting places, the Metro Toronto Convention center, right next to the CN-tower and the Sky Dome. Read all about it, with all the photos, here: https://netbeans.org/community/articles/worldtour/nb_day_photos_canada.html

Some months ago, when some of the Sun Java Studio Creator developers were in town (i.e., here in Prague), I went out for a few drinks with some of them. At some point, I mentioned that we had put together a NetBeans Server-Skeleton Plug-in Tutorial. When he heard this, one of them laughed and, I remember his response very clearly—he said: "Wow! How big is your audience?!" What he meant was that he didn't think there'd be many people out there interested enough in creating...

Let's say you want to send a super secret message somewhere, from within an application. A suitably secret message (because you're afraid of Ashton Kutcher or because you're worried that it might be uncool to think that Demi Moore is cool) might be: "Demi Moore is cool." How would you go about sending it? Let's try message-level web service security. And we'll use an IDE. Hmmm... which IDE shall we use. Let's try NetBeans IDE.Use wizards in NetBeans IDE 5.0 to create the 'Hi...

Until yesterday, my projects were just like everyone else's—a long list, sorted alphabetically: Now, however, thanks to a new module by Tim Boudreau (it's in CVS, but I don't know under what name), my life is much neater and simpler—I have folders where I can group related projects: Thanks a lot Tim!

While rewriting a Sun Education course ("DWS-4487: Developing Secure Java Web Services") to use NetBeans IDE, I must've come across every single unparseably bizarre error that the tiny warped minds of developers have conceived of. The one that takes the cake, as far as I'm concerned, is this one: Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.rpc.soap.SOAPFaultException: SOAP must understand error at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._raiseFault(StreamingSender.java:528) ...

Some developers know exactly what they want when they're creating their application. They don't want to first use a project wizard to create their application and then use the Library Manager to select the libraries they need. For these people, wouldn't it be cool if all the libraries were to be available in the Frameworks panel? (Currently, this additional panel is only available in the Web Application wizard.) And, if you think of web frameworks as consisting of a library...

Here's something fun—create a web application with Struts (or JSF) support in NetBeans IDE 5.0. Then right-click the project, choose Properties, and go to the Frameworks panel in the Project Properties dialog box. You'll see a list of 'Used Frameworks' where the framework(s) you selected previously are listed. Now exit the Project Properties dialog box. Go to your web.xml file and make one tiny change to the servlet-class declaration. For example, just change one letter. Now...

While preparing the abstract of a session for JavaOne 2006, Petr Pisl—senior developer in the NetBeans J2EE team—introduced me to the WebFrameworkProvider class of the NetBeans APIs. (The NetBeans APIs enable you to extend the IDE. Plus, they enable you to build completely non-IDE related applications on top of the NetBeans core.) This class is really cool—it's really all you need for implementing the basics of a web framework in NetBeans IDE. My implementation doesn't do...