A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
Adding JavaHelp topics to a NetBeans Platform application is made really easy by the NetBeans IDE. Run the New File wizard, and choose the Module Development category, and under File Types pick JavaHelp Help Set. The wizard will generate all the necessary files for you. The one thing in the process that was not obvious … Read more
Besides implementing and testing the IDE itself, there are various other tasks involved in a new release of the NetBeans IDE. One important aspect is ensuring that the tutorials on the NetBeans website are up to date. And this release is no exception: there are a number of interesting NetBeans Platform Learning Trail tutorials that … Read more
The NetBeans Platform has a very powerful quick search feature that you can reuse and extend in your own platform applications. When I decided to do that recently, I wanted to put it onto the menu bar as it appears in the IDE. So I set out to find out how to do that. The … 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