A software development blog by Hermien Pellissier
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
With each new version of the NetBeans Platform, there are useful new features that developers can use in their platform applications. And 7.2 is no exception to this rule. 🙂 There are a number of new features already available in the development builds for 7.2, in the Window System amongst others. The one feature that … 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
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