A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
Every so often I manage to do something really silly in the GUI builder, which causes unexpected behaviour (and exceptions) when the form is actually executed. And today I realised again that it is indeed sometimes important which step you choose to associate a piece of code with. For example, accidentally trying to set a … 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
The status bar that appears at the bottom of a NetBeans Platform application can be extended with your own components. When I recently wanted to do this, I searched the Internet for good resources on this topic. And so I found this blog entry by Emilian Bold. It is very useful indeed, but it dates … Read more