Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I attended J-Fall 2014 last week, the annual Dutch JUG conference. It was without a doubt the most crowded conference I have yet attended! 1,200 attendees in a conference center in Nijkerk that is increasingly showing its limitations. But it was a lot of fun, of course. Bert Ertman, Java champion, and frequent speaker at big international conferences, who has led the Dutch JUG over the past 10 years, announced the end of his tenure as JUG leader. He'll be missed! Bert has...

Here's the new JFX Fluidon plugin by Gaurav Gupta in action in the Family Tree application described in step-by-step detail in "JavaFX Rich Client Programming on the NetBeans Platform". Click to enlarge the image to get the full effect. It's pretty cool and here's a movie I made of it today:

How to get started with Scala in NetBeans IDE? Here you go. Some other info, partly outdated: http://wiki.netbeans.org/Scala https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/10_steps_to_happiness_with 

During NetBeans Day 2014 in San Francisco, mention was made of more NetBeans Days being planned over the coming months. Right now, plans are in the works for NetBeans Day Germany (December 2014), NetBeans Day South Africa (January 2015), and NetBeans Day Netherlands (February 2015). The first of these you can already register for on the Eppleton site: As you can see above, 2 December is the date! There will be as few slides as possible and as much code as possible throughout...

Assuming you're doing IoT development and want to run an application to a remote platform that needs to interact, for example, with the Raspberry Pi GPIO, you need to have write access to the virtual files of the kernel. For example, if that program is executed without "root" rights, it might crash with the following error: Before NetBeans IDE 8.0.1, a workaround that Jens Deters came up with to circumvent the above problem, was to call a shell script that does the job, as...

On Twitter I saw an announcement by Gradleware's Radim Kubacki re Gradle and NetBeans module support recently: I got quite some help from Radim and below are my basic instructions for getting started with early support for building NetBeans modules via Gradle. Curious to know what a Gradle NetBeans module looks like? Here, in the Projects window, take a very first look at a Gradle NetBeans module, the first screenshot ever taken of this cool thing: Take the steps as follows to...

Look at the screenshot in yesterday's blog entry. It shows a very basic Java EE 8 MVC project structure. Now imagine you need to create tools to support those who will be creating those kinds of project structures. For NetBeans IDE, there are several approaches you can take: Create several file templates, for each of those files. Or a file template at the end of which all those files, the Java source file providing the Bean, as well as the HTML files, are created. Doable and...

The new MVC, well discussed by Ed Burns here, has a demo in Manfred Riem's blog here, and looks like this as a Maven-based application in NetBeans IDE: Working on some tools in NetBeans IDE to support the above, e.g., a project wizard that generates the basic artifacts above. 

The Oracle Developer Cloud Service plugin for NetBeans IDE has been released and is available in the update center for NetBeans IDE 8.0.1. Install it and then you can connect to your Oracle Developer Cloud Service and use it for team collaboration work in NetBeans IDE. Once you register the service in the IDE, you can manage tasks and builds, while a handy dashboard gives you an overview of all the incoming activities across members of your team. Automatically, you'll receive...