Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In part 1, Jason Wexbridge and Walter Nyland were interviewed about the book they're working on about the NetBeans Platform. https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners I caught up with them again, in the final stages of working on their book, to ask them some questions. Hi Jason and Walter, how are things going with the book? Jason: Great. Really finishing touches time, at this point. Walter: It's been an intense time, but we're coming to the end of it now. It's not a pamphlet, then? Walter:...

Lua is intended to be embedded into other applications. One hears a lot of buzz around it in the context of embedded development. Since recently, the team providing the professional Lua Glider have made a subset available as a free extension to NetBeans IDE, consisting of an editor, debugger, and profiler. Download and install it here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/52786/lua-glider-netbeans-edition And here's a tutorial I've been using to learn Lua.

There's an extremely interesting and professional new plugin, by Gaurav Gupta, who also created the really nice JBPM tools for NetBeans recently. It's a modeling tool that lets you generate Java classes from diagrams such as this: Get it here and see the explanatory screenshots on the page: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/53057/jpa-modeler

Aspose makes file format APIs and components available in multiple languages and for various technologies, including Java. Recently the Aspose team made a great plugin available to the NetBeans community as a way to highlight their technology. Go to Tools | Plugins and you'll find the Aspose plugin available, while it is also on the NetBeans Plugin Portal, where it is described too. You'll find a new project template in the Java category in the New Project dialog: On the next...

Build and distribute business web applications that target both desktop and mobile devices. Cowritten by Java EE and NetBeans IDE experts, "Java EE and HTML5 Enterprise Application Development" fully explains cutting-edge, highly responsive design tools and strategies. Find out how to navigate NetBeans IDE, construct HTML5 programs, employ JavaScript APIs, integrate CSS and WebSockets, and handle security. This Oracle Press guide also offers practical coverage of SaaS, MVVM,...

Over the years, in this blog, I have frequently questioned the difference between data and information. All the way back in 2008, I even discussed statistics in the context of (my childhood hero) John McEnroe. How many out there can claim to have been arguing about statistics consistently and coherently for as long as I have? Indeed, not many. Data is numbers, graphs, statistics, ups, downs, etc. Meanwhile, information is the meaning of data, that is, the conclusions that can...

Here's how to show the Quick Search textfield in a dialog by clicking a menu item. import java.awt.BorderLayout;import java.awt.Component;import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;import java.awt.event.ActionListener;import javax.swing.Action;import javax.swing.JPanel;import org.openide.DialogDescriptor;import org.openide.DialogDisplayer;import org.openide.awt.ActionID;import org.openide.awt.ActionReference;import org.openide.awt.ActionRegistration;import org.openide.awt.Actions;import...

Great screenshot by Sean Phillips, Duke's Choice Award winner, that provides a visualization of the James Webb Space Telescope Contact Analysis. It uses JavaFX 8 and NetBeans Platform 8 as its basis.

SaveCookie, and the other loosely coupled capabilities in the NetBeans Platform, meet the requirements of the new concept functional interface in JDK 8. They're classes that have a single abstract method. For example: SaveCookie s = new SaveCookie() { public void save() { System.out.println("save to database..."); }}; When a change is made somewhere, you can publish the above into the Lookup, causing the SaveAction to be enabled, which means the Save menu item,...