A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
Originally all NetBeans Platform applications were built using the Ant-based build harness. And of course this option is still available in NetBeans 7.1. However, the IDE also has tool support for creating platform applications built with Maven, which was added in more recent versions. I have been working with the NetBeans Platform since 5.5 days, … Read more
The NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT) for NetBeans 7.2 kicked off today! This is an opportunity for community members to help make the NetBeans IDE even better, while meeting interesting people from around the world and learning a bit about how the NetBeans development and QA teams work. If you are interested in joining … Read more
Building an Ant-based NetBeans Platform application from the command line on a build server is a typically a little different from building it on developer PC. In an earlier post I explored which ant targets are useful when building your application from the command line. In this post I explore what is different on a … Read more
Using the Command Line Parsing API, it is possible to process parameters passed to your NetBeans Platform application via the command line. This article explores how it works. Read this excellent blog post by Geertjan which provided me with some of the information for this article. Also useful was the javadoc. NetBeans Platform 7.1 Code … Read more
The NetBeans Platform manages the creation of actions at run time. When you create a new action with the wizard (File > New File… > Module Development > Action) everything gets generated that is needed for the Platform to load the action and call your actionPerformed() method when required. However, the question does sometimes arise … Read more