A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
Even after working with a Maven-based NetBeans Platform application for a few months, there are still lots of new things that I discover every week. 🙂 Quite a while ago I was looking in detail at the update center for our Maven-based NetBeans Platform application. And I wanted to change the module author that appears … Read more
The ability to easily build an update center that users of your application can use to update their software, is a very useful feature of the NetBeans Platform. And being able to build this from the command line means that it can be useful on a build server. For an Ant-based application, you can call … Read more
Everything is subtly (or not so subtly) different between building and running a NetBeans Platform application with Ant and with Maven. When running an application from the IDE, only one instance of the application is allowed to run at a time. The error message displayed when trying to run a second instance with an Ant-based … Read more
Today I discovered another great new addition to the latest development builds of the NetBeans IDE: building installers from the IDE for a Maven-based NetBeans Platform application! I am using NetBeans 7.2 development build 201204150400, but I don’t know exactly when this was introduced. In this development build, I can right-click on the the App … Read more
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