Geertjan's Blog
- December 30, 2010
NetBeans Platform Runtime Inspector
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansDeveloperFAQ#Lookup
Yet, this plugin clarifies a lot:
During development, install it into your own application and you'll have a Services window showing the context of the global lookup, as well as the content of the central registry:
It enables you to, for example, see where your own implementations are registered in the default Lookup:
Above you can see I have two APIs, one for keyboards and the other for JFugue editors. That way, I'll end up providing a simple implementation of each when the product is released. Anyone else can then come along and replace my simple implementations with more complex ones.
Could you possibly provide a direct link to the download for this plugin? My development machine is off-line and I'm not having much luck finding it looking through the raw updatecenter links. Also, what version(s) of Netbeans is this for? I checked here first: http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/updates/6.9/uc/final/stable/ but don't see anything newer than Dec 13.
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/extra/org-netbeans-modules-apisupport-projectinspector.nbm
I think that's it. Install it into a recent 7.0 build, like 7.0 Beta, probably.
Thanks for the super-quick response. You were one off though :).
I looked into the xml file for the metadata and the correct package is the beanbrowser:
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/extra/org-netbeans-modules-apisupport-beanbrowser.nbm
Thanks for all the work you do with NetBeans!
This is an important tool in the toolset of a NetBeans Plugin Developer. I liked it very much