Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In this very short screencast (a mere 44 seconds), you see one of my personal holy grails has come along quite far. It shows an initial implementation of integration between the JavaFX HTMLEditor component and the NetBeans IDE HTML Source Editor. Two way editing, synchronized between the two views (visual and source) is successfully demonstrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkuQFUaI9A However, rather than rewriting the entire source file when a change is made in the JavaFX...

Here's my first attempt at integrating the visual JavaFX HTMLEditor on top of HTML files on the NetBeans Platform, e.g., NetBeans IDE. All the code and note that the two sides aren't synchronized (yet): import java.io.IOException;import java.util.logging.Level;import java.util.logging.Logger;import javafx.application.Platform;import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;import javafx.scene.Scene;import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;import javafx.scene.web.HTMLEditor;import...

David Heffelfinger and Packt Publishing have released a video course aimed at Java developers who wish to develop Java EE applications while taking advantage of NetBeans functionality to automate repetitive tasks and to ease their software development efforts.  Obtain the course for a mere 10 EUR here: http://www.packtpub.com/java-ee-development-with-netbeans-7/video And here's a sneak preview, i.e., one free section of the course to give you a taste of the style and...

From the Oracle press release, this is how the NetBeans Platform based winners of this year's Duke's Choice Awards are described: a.i. solutions – To help facilitate and deploy the 2014 launch of National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, a.i. solutions used Java Development Kit (JDK) 7, the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and JavaFX to create the GEONS Ground Support System. Using Java in this project helped reduce...

The September/October 2013 edition of Java Magazine (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamagazine/index.html) honors this year's Duke Choice Award winners: The NetBeans Platform projects that won a Duke's Choice Award this year: GEONS Ground Support System, National Aeronautics and Space Administration OpenSim, The National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Computation and National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research Jessikommand, Robotswim Neuroph, Un...

One project that raised quite some eyebrows at JavaOne 2013 was bck2brwsr, by Jaroslav Tulach and Toni Epple. In the words of Cay Horstmann in "JavaOne for the Impatient": Jaroslav wrote a Java virtual machine in JavaScript. You write your code in (a rather stringent subset of) Java and compile it to a JAR. His JavaScript code unpacks and executes it. Today, you can access the DOM and write games with Canvas. Tomorrow, perhaps the sky will be the limit. Getting started with it...

As last year, there were several discussion panels at JavaOne around the theme of "NetBeans Platform". (There were also several with/about NetBeans IDE, but that's not the point of this blog entry, here I'm talking about the Java desktop application framework otherwise known as the NetBeans Platform.) For example, earlier in the week, there were the sessions "Practical Pros and Cons of Replacing Swing with JavaFX in Existing Applications" and "Java in Real-Time Secure...

During JavaOne 2103, Jirka Kovalsky, NetBeans Community Manager, did an excellent presentation on quality control, together with NetCAT members Glenn Holmer and Thomas Kruse, in the light of 15 years of quality control at NetBeans IDE. Here are the slides! Alternative locations of the above slides: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/26585529 https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzp8kosf0r7f8a4/BOF4162_Kovalsky.pdf

A quick and noisy overview of NetBeans Party 2013, which was on Saturday, 21 September, 2013, in San Francisco! Also present was Guillaume Genty from the Duke's Choice Award winning project RobotSwim, showing off one of his robot fish in an 'aquarium' borrowed from the bartender. When James Gosling was introduced to Guillaume during NetBeans Day, he seemed extremely interested and intrigued by the robot fish!