Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Part 1 of this series on Fosfor, the free and open source EPUB tool (https://java.net/projects/epubopentoolbox), was 7 months ago. Time for part 2, clearly. What's happened in the past 7 months? Well, I did some work on this project again about two weeks ago. I decided to continue to use JavaFX for its WebView component. However, I simply could not get the WYSIWYG stuff from the HTMLEditor to work in the WebView, and vice versa. I.e., as I have mentioned several times, and...

Last month update 1 of NetBeans Platform for Beginners was released, so, logically, we now have update 2 because the authors have a monthly schedule of releasing updates. Everyone who buys the book receives an e-mail at the end of each month with a link to a free new version of the book, with updates and enhancements and other changes or fixes done to the book over the past month. Below you see the key parts of the latest update, i.e., all provided by readers of the book via...

Sometime ago a training course for the NetBeans Platform was held in Leipzig, Germany. Excellently organized by Benno Markiewicz (he reports on this event here), who won the NetBeans community award last year for the many patches he provided, as well as the many issue reports, and his work in the NetCAT project, the course was held at the company where he works, ECG Erdgas Consult GmbH.  The group was from a variety of different places, including the Laboratory for Machine...

Great book review on "NetBeans Platform for Beginners": But that's just the start. The whole thing is here: http://marxsoftware.blogspot.nl/2014/04/book-review-netbeans-platform-beginners.html

Pulling in project templates from online repos that we, that is, the NetBeans team, have no control over has pros and cons. One clear con is that when things change a lot in those online repos, we're basically screwed. We've had fun with that with Cordova as well over the past NetBeans releases. And that's what happened recently when Bower was suddenly and mysteriously, from my point of view anyway, added to the fun that is the AngularJS Seed template. Now, whenever you pull...

Nice starting sentence to an interesting new YouTube tutorial published today: "In today's lesson we're going to learn how to create a very simple but functional MP3 player in Java and, obviously, NetBeans": This is part of an AWESOME set of YouTube tutorials all about using "Java and, obviously, NetBeans" to create really cool applications: https://www.youtube.com/user/VertexDigitalArts Related website: http://www.teknikindustries.com

OK, so now the application I started working on is even more meaningful. Firstly, what is it all about? Well, with the DukeScript Framework, you use Java to write application logic, with HTML5 to render the UI. No Swing. No JavaFX. HTML takes the place of those toolkits. Then you can manipulate the HTML page from Java, use REST or WebSockets, and do anything else with Java that you might want to do. So here's the state of my CRUD app right now, i.e., still only R, but with...

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In an effort to make a meaningful application on the DukeScript Framework, here's the start of a JPA-based CRUD app (right now, only R is supported): There are three parts to this. Model. I generated JPA entity classes from my database. I ended up with the "Customer" class, which has relationships with "DiscountCode" and "MicroMarket". Then I added a new annotation, on top of all the JPA annotations, to the "Customer" class: @Model(className = "CustomerData", properties = {}) Then...