A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
A new version of the nbm-maven-plugin has been released – version 3.8 is now ready to be used. 😀 The documentation for the new version can be found here. To build your platform application with the new version of this Maven plugin, simply change the version of the plugin in the parent pom.xml to 3.8. … Read more
The NetBeans Platform Application I am working on is required to update itself silently, before the user interface appears. Most of what we used comes from Jiri Rechtacek’s excellent post How to update NetBeans Platform Application silently? Edit 2018/11/18: Jiri’s blog post is no longer available. Edit: Also have a look at Geertjan’s blog entry … Read more
Functional testing with JellyTools is fairly unfamiliar territory for me, so this morning I decided to spend some time to learn how it works with a Maven-based NetBeans Platform Application. JellyTools is a library based on Jemmy, which allows you to manipulate GUI components during automated functional testing. My first attempt at following the Writing … Read more
The nbm:build-installers Maven goal allows you to build the platform application installers using Maven, as I wrote about in an earlier blog post. Yesterday I decided to investigate how to configure the installer when building it using that goal. The first thing that can be customised is which platform(s) to create installers for. This can … Read more
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