Migrating my Mind to Maven (Part 2) – Building Installers

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

Busy TopComponents

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

Migrating my Mind to Maven (Part 1) – Packaging the Application

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