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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: M3DD calls for papers

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:17:05 +0000

M3DD means Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days 2008. And there is Call for Papers again on Roger's blog. The last (and first as well) conference was in January this year. Therefore it cannot be annual anymore

I missed the first M3DD and I regret it. They even accepted my paper but there weren't a money for my trip to US. I do expect the same this time and I do not work on NetBeans Mobility anymore. Therefore it seems to me that I'll leave more space for the submissions of others. Less work for the committee.
For those who are interested in Java ME development and bleeding edge technologies this is the right place to talk at or to attend.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JavaZone 2008 in Oslo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:11:48 +0000

There is a java conference in Oslo on September 17-18. It's name is JavaZone. Me and Karol Harezlak will give a presentation that we named "Future and Present of Java ME development – Netbeans Mobility IDE". That's cool name that will allow us to talk about everything that we like or nit in Java ME, NetBeans IDE etc. Actually, it is a BOF therefore it should be more fun that a serious session.

Is anybody planning to visit the JavaZone this year? It would be great to meet at the conference or if you are from Oslo then we can meet in a nice place at the downtown

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Java ate Mobility - NetBeans 6.5 distributions

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:53:10 +0000

NetBeans Mobility distribution has been swallowed by Java distribution. What a nice title for a newspaper. But the reality is simpler. NetBeans just changed the distributions that are provided for download for users.

There used to be Java SE, Java EE, Mobility (Java ME) distributions in old releases. In NetBeans 6.5, there is only small Java SE distro and big Java bundle that includes everything about Java development including Java ME, Java SE and Java EE + the server side.

Picture is worth a thousand words:

NetBeans 6.0 distributions

NetBeans 6.5 distributions

TIP: If the bandwidth is problem for you and you want to download as less as possible then you can download the Java SE distribution. Later when you need an additional functionality just open "Tools > Plugins". You can choose what plugin or whole category of plugins you've missed and install it.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: MyPicks Facebook Application on Facebook (powered by Zembly from SUN)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:13:00 +0000

I tried to guess the results of the events at Olympic Games in Beijing with this nice application developed in Zembly. (official press report). I'm not much successful with my tips yet.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JOpenSpace - weekend not only about Java[.cz]

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:14:33 +0000

JOpenSpace is not a class in a new java framework. It is a name of new open space conference that happened in Jizerske mountains last weekend (8/1 - 8/3).
There were 23 people from different companies from Czech Republic - from Znojmo to Ceske Budejovice. The gathering had very friendly informal spirit. The knowledge sharing and the value of the informations that I learned was definitely better than at any other conference that I have attended. Thanks for the organizing it goes to Srakyi. As he explained in the starting session they were inspired by JavaPosse Roundups. Therefore they prepared something similar for Czech Java community. This time it was closed session therefore you could get in on invitation only. It may change for next years but the number of attendees will be limited anyway to keep the "nice familiar atmosphere".

I won't write about the talks in details. The list will be published at http://jopenspace.cz. Hopefully they will publish some records from the talks as well. They will be in Czech language( another reason to learn it ).

I really regret that I haven't been at any CZ JUG session yet. The people around it are very nice. They didn't punished me when I told them that I haven't attended any JUG session yet. And I'll fix it soon. I didn't prepared any lightning talk because we were busy with the NB 6.5 Beta testing however it seems that nobody would be interested in the Mobility Pack. Most of the people were oriented to the web technologies. Maybe they would like the wizards for creating mobile clients to server side? Who knows. Anyway we were not able to finish all the topics that were on the list. And I participated in some of the open space talks where anybody can say something to the topic. Some of the topic were exactly what I would come up if somebody else wouldn't put it on the list earlier.

The session that I liked the most were not connected to the programming or java at all - "Injuries caused by mouse and keyboard" and "Testing of wine from Moravia". They were very successful and everybody participated in.
I'd like to mention some other topics and technologies that we touched or talked about - documentation, Selenium IDE, Spring, Terracotta, AndroMDA, Groovy, JavaFX Mobile, Android, FindBugs+PathFinder, SCRUM, etc.

More info:

http://jopenspace.cz -in Czech
Srakyi's blog about JOS 2008
Nice and descriptive blog from "otec Fura" - in Czech
CZ podcast volume #25 - jOpenSpace 2008 speciál

My tips for next years or open space conferences in general:

Keep the time for Lightning talks. They must be lightning otherwise it is just a presentation
There should be more "sessions" at the same time. It will allow the people to change "session" when they don't like it.
There should be more space for relax. The sessions were very interesting however a little bit of sport activities would reset the minds and enable us concentrate more again. We had to make a individual break for a "nohejball" match with Dagi, Filemon, Karol, Honza and Pavol. Guess who won

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JavaFX Preview SDK Available

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:09:18 +0000

I was one of the pessimists that didn't believe in this new buzz word - Java FX. Today I'll have to say "excuse me, please". The JavaFX SDK preview was released. It is not final version at all. But you can try it and play with it. All the major problems has been fixed (I hope), all the API changes are finished(or not, Chris?).

I tried a few demos.
- from http://java.sun.com/javafx/

- from http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/

Why the dialog isn't transparent? And why the **** the stock data are not updated?

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Schizophrenia - two blogs?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:30:29 +0000

I started new blog - http://blogs.sun.com/coreqa/. It should be a team blog for our Core QA team. It should be more focused on testing of the platform. I'm starting to feel a little bit divided into these blogs. Sometimes I don't know what blog should I post my blog entry I'll keep this one for more personal and mobility related entries. The new one will be more about platform and testing.

OTOH, this blog has more readers and is higher in the popular blogs list at blogs.sun.com. Actually, that's the reason why I'm writing this post To announce another blog and make it more visible. Google also likes the interlinks

Well, I just remembered that I'm also co-author of third blog -http://blogs.sun.com/espresso- But it seems that the blog has died silently. And one more note we are talking about work related blogs. It seems to me that it's time for a break. It's getting to much complicated. (offtopic: are able to follow, xzajo?)

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: SEED - Radia Perlman is my mentor

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:54:52 +0000

That's amazing news for my career. I have been accepted for the SEED (Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development) program. Then I selected my wish list of mentors.
And Radia Perlman has accepted my call. That's great! I'm looking forward to work with her.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetCAT 6.5 - invitation to the program

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:11 +0000

This message shouldn't be missed by those that would like to influence the NetBeans 6.5 release quality. It was sent to nbusers mailing list

Hello folks, NetBeans IDE 6.5 is approaching its stabilization phase and we are glad to extend to you an opportunity to participate in our 2 months NetBeans 6.5 Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) program [1]. With NetBeans 6.5, we have incorporated many features requested by the community. Just to listen the biggest and most noticeable ones: * Scripting languages support (PHP, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript) * Enhanced DB tooling and improved integration with MySQL * Background compilation, new Generic Language Framework APIs * Support for custom
      project structures * New UML drawing area control * and much more... Now we need your help. If you have an experience with NetBeans and want to contribute some time and effort, go for it and register [2] now! We are looking for 60 dedicated users willing to help NetBeans 6.5 become the best IDE. Applications are being accepted until next Monday - July 7, 2008. Each participant committed to providing timely feedback during this program will be given a chance to significantly influence the quality of the NetBeans 6.5 release. Besides, there are some gifts prepared for all helpful members. Ready to contribute? We look forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Jiri Kovalsky NetCAT 6.5 coordinator [1] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/index.html [2] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/application.html

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: [Jazoon] Why I missed it

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:26:57 +0000

The Jazoon conference ends today. I regret that I couldn't be there. They accepted my proposal for lab session by I had to cancel it. I was really looking forward to give the talk again at Jazoon. And I wanted to see how they improved the conference from last year when it appeared for first time. I was looking forward to meet Carol Hamer who agreed to be proctor in the lab (I stole some code from her book "Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone" for the lab Actually, she approved me the usage of the code then it means I didn't steal it, right?)

But I cannot attend. No money, no fun. It seems that the Jazoon conference occupies really bad date. It is end of fiscal year. Vacations and summer are starting. And the next year it will be even worse when the Javaone conference will move to June.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Changing teams - bye, bye, Mobility

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:16:51 +0000

I used to be the quality assurance engineer and later team lead of the QA for last 5 years. I like the product - NetBeans Mobility. I liked the team that was working on it. Unfortunately, I had to leave the team two weeks ago. No, I haven't left SUN. I just moved to the Core&Platform QA. When I started to lead both QA teams half a year ago it seemed doable. But later on we discovered that there is not enough resources in the QA team in Prague to cover all the functionality we had been responsible for. We had to pass something to different teams in different SUN's offices. Bye, bye, Mobility, my very loved child. I hope that the new team in St. Petersburg will keep the quality on the same level. Actually, they have to I'm still watching the project. (I didn't mean it offensive...) Good luck to Ivan and Andrei.

What this change means for me? I'll have more time to focus on only one thing. For now it will be the NetBeans Platform and the Core NetBeans functionality.

What it means for you? I won't blog about Mobility much in future, probably. I'll blog about more about NetBeans Platform and IDE.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Failed demos at JavaOne

Thu, 08 May 2008 02:44:43 +0000

I decided to collect and list all the demos that failed during JavaOne in this post. Because I'm not able to visit all the general sessions I'd be very glad to get some tips from my readers.

It quite usual that the demo fails just and only during the presentation. I call it demo effect. You can test/dry-run how many times you want but it will happen anyway I'm QA guy therefore I know that there isn't anything like bugless software. However I don't get it why all the bugs appear at presentation time.

Failed demos list

Kindle doesn't download - however it works when you are not on the stage. For Ian it works even from a seat in first row.
Java FX Connected Life - failed 3 times. Poor Nandini, she did it again

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: [J1-2008] Day -2 : Glassfish and dim sum

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:34:01 +0000

Sunday. It started as day off. We decided to have a small dim sum brunch at Chinatown. Jarda came up with the idea. And I have to thank him. It was unsharable experience.
We walked through the Chinatown to look for a dim sum restarant. Most of them were closed. It was 10 AM. By accident we found a nice one. It was somewhere on Washington street. There were just us and the local Chinese people. Altrought the menu was in Chinese only the ordering of dim sum was easy. They show you a basket with dim sum you take it or not. When you are really afraid of what is inside you ask
Picture is worth thousand words in this case...

Dim sum

Inside of the Imperial Palace restaurant

Then the registration for JavaOne started afternoon. The goodies look a little bit worse this time. Maybe it's because everything is eco or green this time. Wooden pen and eco light. Cool.

I went to start up camp and glassfish unconference. It was informal meeting (actually lot of meetings at the same time) about interesting topics.

Then there was Glassfish party at Thirsty Bear. Party madness started They served a special drink - Glassfish raspberry lemonade. The drink shined.
Glassfish raspberry lemonade

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: [J1] San Francisco - the way, the stay

Sun, 04 May 2008 04:56:38 +0000

My trip to San Francisco started at the Prague airport. I took the flight to Munich with Lufthansa. I knew that I fly with DEHAVILLAND DASH 8 TURBOPROP aircraft however when I saw it I was surprised. And I remembered Roumen's blog entry about the same kind of aircraft (but I cannot find it now). The trip was amazing. The only thing that I missed was the parachute backpack on my back. I'd feel more comfortable. To be honest, we arrived on time. My baggage wasn't lost yet.

Thanks to my new VAIO with extra battery I was able to work on the presentation for JavaOne when I waited at the airports. I can watch movies too

The other flight (Munich - San Francisco) was just boring Airbus A346 JET. I really liked the LCD panel. I could play movies when I wanted. That was improvement to my latest experience (but they didn't offer any games, why Lufthansa, why?).

I arrived to San Francisco downtown in night therefore I was scared if my reservation in Pickwick hotel wasn't canceled because I forgot to let them know about my late arrival. Fortunately, there were no problem therefore I could fall asleep finally in nice bed.

In the Saturday morning I woke up early, jet leg, of course. I took a short walk in around the block. And I took a few pictures of Moscone center and the JavaOne eye-catchers. I'm getting used to the time shift and the inches and foot.

I bought a SIM card to be available for the emergency calls about my lab. It allowed me to get into touch with Martin B. too. He gave me a drive to pizza party in John's house close to Half Moon bay. Last year there was burger party. This year John built up a pizza oven. He cooked delicious homemade pizza. Wow, pizza oven is what I need in my house! Great pizza whenever you want.

Preparing the pizza

Pizza oven can be useful in many ways when it is cold outside

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Bye, bye, Vista

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:14:37 +0000

My laptop is again Vista free. I survived almost 3 weeks on the new Windows Vista that came with the new Sony Vaio. I haven't used to it. I don't have any particular reason but I haven't felt comfortably with so smart system. Maybe was just my setup. However I was so scared when they(vistas) asked me "Do you REALLY want to run this program?". Yes, yes, and yes. I'm not stupid nor mad. I clicked the executable file or icon by purpose. There were more little things that I didn't like.

I'm back with dual boot - Windows XP and Ubuntu. I'm using XP however I do plan to switch to the latest Ubuntu after JavaOne. It is not worth to have a nightmares before the session...

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:54:03 +0000

I impressed. My LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game is full already. No empty seats for late-coming attendees. Maybe you can sit on floor if you really want to join.

This will be BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session and if you don't need a table and chair then you are welcome. I'm curios how we will handle it. I'm prepared to lot of questions and problem about the configuration of your laptop. If you will show up at the hands-on lab and you'd like to help us then prepare your machine.

You will need following software installed:

NetBeans 6.0.1 IDE

If you don't plan to connect the application to webservice then the NetBeans Mobility 6.0.1 distribution is enough. If you plan to connect the mobile application to server backend then you need the Mobility End to End module that is available either on Update Center or is part of the ALL distribution.

The result of the lab will be a game application with name "Lost Duke". There is a flow diagram of the application bellow.

The HOL sources and documents online

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Support for iPhone in NetBeans Mobility

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:48:46 +0000

It seems that the NetBeans Mobility team wanted to give me a birthday present. I run today's build and I found out that there is support for the iPhone. That's really cool. It works out of the box. Just install the latest NetBeans Mobility build. When you are creating new MIDP Application then choose "iPhone SDK April Edition" as emulator platform.

The game that is running in the emulator is the game that I'm preparing for our JavaOne's hands-on lab session. It's name is "Lost Duke".

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: EclipseCon :NetBeans Party - free beer, free IDE, free ride

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:22:53 +0000

If you will be at EclipseCon on Tuesday (March 18) you shouldn't miss the NetBeans party. There will be free beer, free refreshment. You can watch the NetBeans evangelists showing some demos when you'll drink a beer (maybe the Pilsener Urquell?)- I really regret that I'll miss it. Tipsy Roumen and company on the stage...

Look at Roumen's blog for direction to the party or follow the map

So cheers to everybody who will join the party! Lukas.

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) NetBeans 6.1 Beta available

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:02:11 +0000

The build of NetBeans 6.1 Beta has been released and it is free for download. Important links related to this build are following: Download page - http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/beta/ Information - http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/ I would like to mention at least on new feature of this build - the IDE startup is faster up to 40%.
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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) NetBeans 6.1 Beta je na světě

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:01:06 +0000

NetBeans 6.1 Beta build byl vypuštěn na svět a je zdarma ke stažení. Důležité linky vztahující se k tomuto buildu jsou následující: Stránka s downloadem - http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/beta/ Stránka s informacemi - http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/ Chtěl bych upozornit alespoň na jeden novyý rys tohoto buildu - start IDE je zrychlen až o 40%.
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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetBeans 6.1 Beta is out

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:43:46 +0000

NetBeans 6.1 Beta (aka Milestone2) build is available for download at the netbeans.org pages

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Third time at JavaOne

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:26:27 +0000

They accepted our hands-on lab about Java ME and NetBeans Mobility for the JavaOne 2008. The name of the session is "Create Your Own Mobile Game".
This time it will be focused on games development with Game Builder in NetBeans Mobility 6.0.1.

You are highly welcome to join me and Fabiola Gallegos Rios at the hands-on lab at JavaOne 2008. A time slot for this lab hasn't been defined yet. However I expect that it will be on Friday again. The main reason is that they will have to switch more than 100 of machines from Solaris to Linux. Nobody wants to do it twice. Less work, less failures.
I'm looking forward to meet some people that I've met at previous conferences. It will be my pleasure to meet some new faces too, of course.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JSPWiki: How to include page from any URL

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:38:29 +0000

There must be some way out of here... - Bob Dylan

I'm fighting with a problem. It's probably very simple/stupid one however I cannot solve it.
How to include a page outside of wiki to a wiki page? I used to do it with twiki but I cannot find how to do at wiki.netbeans.org. I cannot use HTML tags. And I cannot find any plugin that will do it for me. I have to be missing something...

My scenario is simple: I have a plain text files in Hg repository and I'd like to show them inside a wiki page. It is actually similar to behavior of InsertPage plugin where the page is outside of the wiki web space.

Does anybody know how to solve it? Thank you.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Back in Core again

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:27:53 +0000

A few months ago I started to lead another team - Platform&Core QA. This team is responsible for the quality of the NetBeans Platform and the "core" parts of the IDE. I used to work as quality assurance for NetBeans Mobility Pack for years. I know about the product more then some of the developers that were developing it (my view is more complex, their is more focused on "their" part of product ).

I'm glad to be back in the Core team. Actually I started in this team when I joined the NetBeans QA. It's a long time ago. It seems as a new challenge for me. I worked more with an end product then with the platform in the last years. Now i have to focus on different problems/issues because the customers and users are different.

I'm still working on Mobility however you can expect also a "non-mobility" entries in this blog as well.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetBeans Mobility 6.1 on Mac (Leopard)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:49:47 +0000

NetBeans Mobility 6.1 provides better support for Mac. The Mac is still unsupported platform - means we are not testing it. However the work with the NetBeans Mobility and MPowerPlayer should be easier. When you have the NetBeans Mobility 6.1 (a build after 2/21) then you can add the mpowerplayer emulator as any other Java ME emulator. You don't have to bother with setting up the Custom Emulator Platform. I tried it yesterday with a simple project.

UPDATE: there is NO INSTALLER for Mac that includes the Mobility. You can install whatever version of NB without Mobility to your Mac then you can download the Mobility functionality from Update Center with Tools > Plugins manager (look for Mobility category in Available tab).

Adding the MPowerPlayer platform

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

MPowerPlayer emulator platform in Java Platform manager

Create new Mobility project with MPowerPlayer platform

Project properties with MpowerPlayer platform

Running sample project in MPowerPlayer emulator

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetBeans IDE and Android SDK

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:01:04 +0000

Thanks to Brunhilde and Trudi from Marktredwitz there is new NetBeans plugin for Android SDK. The name of the plugin is Undroid It allows you to create new Android application project in NetBeans IDE.

Links:

Undroid home page
Screenshots
Introducing Android Development with NetBeans from Amit Kumar Saha
Undroid- in less than 5 minutes from Toni Epple

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) NetBeans 6.0.1 released today

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:10:00 +0000

Bits of NetBeans 6.0 have been replaced by NetBeans 6.0.1 today. You can download this NetBeans 6.0.1 directly from http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/. This release contains following changes:
-Addition of Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese localizations.
-Glassfish V2 is replaced with Glassfish V2 UR1.
-The integration of bug fixes

It is also possible to upgrade to this version from NetBeans 6.0 through the plugin manager (Tools|Plugins). Available Updates include listed above except localization.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) NetBeans 6.0.1 je na světě

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:59:00 +0000

Bity NetBeans 6.0 dnes byly nahrazeny NetBeans 6.0.1. Je možné si tuto verzi stáhnout přímo z http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/. Tato verze NetBeans obsahuje následující změny:
-Byla přidána Japonština, Simplified Chinese, a Brazilian Portuguese lokalizace.
-Glassfish V2 byl nahrazen za Glassfish V2 UR1.
-Byly opraveny některé chyby

Na NetBeans 6.0.1 je možné přejít z NetBean 6.0 také pomocí plugin manageru (Tools|Plugins). Dostupné Updates obsahují zmíněné změny kromě lokalizací.

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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: What is NetBeans 6.0.1

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:30:07 +0000

6.0.1

Announcement: NetBeans 6.0.1 is available for download. NetBeans 6.0.1 build replaced the NetBeans 6.0 builds.
What is NetBeans 6.0.1: It is NetBeans 6.0 + Patch1 + Patch2 + fix of NPE on Windows Vista + Registration modules
Is it worth to install?:

If you have installed NetBeans 6.0 already then NO. Just upgrade your IDE through the Plugin manager. The updates will be available there.
If you are still using NB 5.5.(1) then YES. The download is available at netbeans.org. The bits just replaced the "old" NB 6.0.

Personal opinion: I spent lot of time with repetitive testing this release. Mainly the registration modules. It took lot of my energy at the start of new year. My personal opinion is that whatever ends with ...0.1 is not worth the energy that I had put into it.
I'll accept only positive/nice comments to this release. Please fill the negative comments to issuezilla as bugs. Thank you for understanding. I'm really HAPPY that we released the 6.0.1 finally.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Videos from Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:34:13 +0000

They started to publish the videos from the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days. Watch them online.

Videos from Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetBeans.TV

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:52:12 +0000

What is NetBeans TV? It is a new channel how to get new informations about NetBeans IDE, its community, tutorials. Ant it is also lot of fun! I watched the NetBeans On Road a while ago when two crazy guys from NetBeans team were delivering a CD with the NetBeans IDE to a guy in Israel.

They are back. Now at Beijing. On the road again... I'd like to join them. I've never been in China. Have a nice trip guys!

You can also upload your videos/photos to the NetBeans TV to share your visions or just express yourself.

Or are you interested in screencasts? Yup, I just discovered that there is a screencast from Suchys - Building Java-based Mobile Applications on Real Devices. Something to watch tomorrow...

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) Plugin Manager can work in background

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:02:00 +0000

The tool for plugin installation and update was completely rewritten in NetBeans 6.0 so that the Update Center Wizard was removed and we have the Plugin Manager instead. It was long way to stabilize the Plugin Manager and find the best way of presenting the logic to users. I think that now there are no big problems with this tool (of course there are some low priority issues that are always in any software ). It is available in main menu Tools | Plugins.
Current daily builds include one improvement in the area of Plugin Manager. It can Run in Background. This feature was highly required by users so that they may now continue with coding their sources while new plugins are being installed.
The Run in Background feature can be activated by the checkbox in the installer and once the user activates Run in Background it cannot be switched to the foreground (until the current instance of installation is finished).

Run in Background checkbox.

During the Run in Background the Plugin Manager will have disabled actions and the process of the installation is displayed at the status line as the standard NetBeans progress tool.

Progress of installation can be viewed.

When the installation (Run in Background) is finished then the bubble and the restart icon appears at the bottom of the NetBeans IDE in case that some plugin requires restart (the bubble stays there only for a while).

Bubble and the restart icon in IDE status line.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) Plugin Manager dovede pracovat na pozadí

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:00:00 +0000

Nástroj na instalaci a update pluginů byl kompletně přepracován v NetBeans 6.0 takže byl odstraněn nástroj nazvaný Update Center Wizard a namísto něj teď máme Plugin Manager. Plugin Manager prošel dlouhou cestou stabilizace a bylo obtížné najít pravou cestu jak prezentovat uživateli jeho logiku. Myslím, že nyní s ním nemáme žádné větší problémy (samozřejmě kromě issues s nižší prioritou, které jsou součástí každého softwaru ). Dostupný je z hlavního menu Tools | Plugins.
Současné daily buildy obsahují jedno vylepšení v oblasti Plugin Manageru. Ten je možné totiž běžet na pozadí(Run in Background). Tato vlastnost byla hojně vyžadována uživateli, takže je nyní možné programovat v průběhu instalace pluginů.
Run in Background lze aktivovat pomocí checkboxu v installeru. Ovšem poté co je Run in Background aktivován, není možné přepnout Plugin Manager znovu do popředí (dokud není aktuální instalace ukončena).

Run in Background checkbox.

Během Run in Background jsou akce v Plugin Manageru disablovány a proces instalace je zobrazen ve stavové řádce jako standardní NetBeans progress.

Progress instalace.

Jakmile je instalace (Run in Background) u konce, objeví se v na chvíli pravém dolním rohu NetBeans IDE bublina a restart ikona (v případě, že některý z pluginů vyžaduje restart).

Bublina a restart ikona ve stavové řádce IDE.

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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: [TIP] Problem with NetBeans on Vista

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:50:55 +0000

Lot of users that runs the NetBeans 6.0 release on their machines with Windows Vista reported a problem with a NPE below. The NullPointerException appears only on JDK 1.6.0 update 4 (and higher) on machines with Vista when there is a TreeTableView shown in NetBeans IDE. TreeTableViews are for example debugger views, advanced options etc.
It seems like pretty serious issue therefore we decided to include the bug fix in next patch for 6.0 that will be available very very soon. The fix will be part of NetBeans 6.0.1 too.
The report in exception reporter database has almost 400 duplicates now. There is also bug report in our issuezilla database - issue 119569.

java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.swing.table.DefaultTableCellHeaderRenderer.getColumnSortOrder(DefaultTableCellHeaderRenderer.java:104) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsTableHeaderUI$XPDefaultRenderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(WindowsTableHeaderUI.java:108) at org.openide.explorer.view.TableSheetCell.getTableCellRendererComponent(TableSheetCell.java:280) at
      org.openide.explorer.view.TreeTableView$SortingHeaderRenderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(TreeTableView.java:1589) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableHeaderUI.getHeaderRenderer(BasicTableHeaderUI.java:663)

Several workaround to fix the issue exist:

change your windows scheme to Classic
use different jdk then jdk1.6.0_04
update your IDE with the patch from Update Center with Plugin manager.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Mercurial password for netbeans

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:18 +0000

I got it. I received it by email today. The repository was moved from cvs to mercurial. I'm looking forward for first build.

The main-golden repository will be ALWAYS build-able. I hope that it will be true

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) NetBeans repository moved to Mercurial

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:45:58 +0000

As many users already know the NetBeans repository migrated from CVS (cvs.netbeans.org) into Mercurial(hg.netbeans.org). I have already installed Mercurial binaries from http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ on my Mac OS X (running with Leopard). I have met the problem with running of hg. It was not possible to clone testing repository from command line. The command hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main finished with the following output:

 [.JARa]/space/tmp/tmprepository #hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main Traceback (most recent
      call last): File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 14, in mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 20, in run sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:])) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 26, in dispatch except util.Abort, inst: File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 74, in __getattribute__ self._load() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 46, in _load mod =
      _origimport(head, globals, locals) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/util.py", line 32, in _encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 460, in getlocale File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 373, in _parse_localename ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

The problem is that the system property LANG was set to UTF-8. There are 2 solutions how to make hg to be working correctly:
1. Simply execute command export LANG="" or better just unset LANG. The disadvantage is that this doesn't work globally so that you may want to write it to the proper user config files.
2. The second option is to go to the Terminal Preferences, then select the tab Advanced in Settings category. You need to deselect the checkbox on the bottom of the dialog.

The Settings dialog of Terminal.

You can find useful some links related to NetBeans migration to Mercurial:
-http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/HgMigrationDocs - NetBeans hg migration document
-http://wiki.netbeans.org/HgHowTos - How To page
-http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ - hg binaries
-http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ - selenic home page

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) NetBeans repository je na Mercurialu

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:45:44 +0000

Jak už mnozí asi vědí NetBeans repository přešla z CVS (cvs.netbeans.org) na Mercurial(hg.netbeans.org). Když jsem si nainstaloval Mercurial "binárky" z http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ na můj Mac OS X (běží mi tam Leopard), narazil jsem na problém při spouštění hg. Nebylo možné si naklonovat repozitory z command line. Příkaz hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main skončil vždy s následujícím výstupem:

 [.JARa]/space/tmp/tmprepository #hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main Traceback (most recent call last): File
      "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 14, in mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 20, in run sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:])) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 26, in dispatch except util.Abort, inst: File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 74, in __getattribute__ self._load() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 46, in _load mod = _origimport(head,
      globals, locals) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/util.py", line 32, in _encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 460, in getlocale File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 373, in _parse_localename ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Problém byl v tom, že systémová proměnná LANG byla nastavena na UTF-8. Jsou 2 možnostu jak přimět hg aby začal fungovat správně:
1. Jednoduše příkazem export LANG="", nebo lépe unset LANG. Nevýhoda je, že tohle nefunguje globálně takže je možné zapsat to do příslušného konfiguračního souboru uživatele.
2. Druhá možnost je přes Terminal Preferences, pak vybrat záložku Advanced v Settings categorii. Tam je potřeba odznačit checkbox, který se nachází dole na dialogu.

Settings dialog pro Terminál.

Následující linky vztahující se k migraci NetBeans na Mercurial mohou být užitečné:
-http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/HgMigrationDocs - NetBeans hg migration dokument
-http://wiki.netbeans.org/HgHowTos - stránka s HowTo
-http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ - stránka s binární soubory hg
-http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ - selenic home page

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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days : Day 1

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:38:39 +0000

The first day of the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference is gone. I wanted to watch it online but the time shift 9 hours doesn't work for me. Therefore I went to the streaming page. There is a video available from the panel from the Day 1 of the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days at Santa Clara.

Streaming of the video from the conference

However I expected that all the sessions will be recorded. Maybe they are just post processing them somehow?
All the slides are online as well - list of sessions
UPDATE: Videos from Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) Sun acquires MySQL - starting blogging again

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:01:00 +0000

The subject of this entry tells enough. I can only say that for me MySQL is "The world's most popular open source database" which is motto of http://www.mysql.com/. You can find more details about the acquisition at Jonathan's blog. Unfortunately Jonathan is not blogging in Czech so that readers of my Czech entry need to switch to English.
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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) Opět začínám blogovat - "Sun koupil MySQL"

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Titulek tohoto článku je dostačující. Na mně je jen abych řekl, že MySQL je i pro mne "The world's most popular open source database" - což je heslo na http://www.mysql.com/. Více informací o akvizici je možné najít na Jonathan's blog. Jonathan bohužel nebloguje v Češtině, takže čtenáři této české verze musí přepnout do angličtiny.
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Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetBeans Mobility Wins Developer.com's Product of the Year 2008

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:42:39 +0000

Time to celebrate. NetBeans won following categories - "Development Tool", "Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in", "Java Tool or Add-in". I'm most interested in the "Mobile Development tool" that make me feel proud that I was part of the team working on the product, of course.

Cite from Developers.com:
Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in The finalists were:

Dreamweaver® CS3
Microsoft® SilverlightTM
NetBeans Mobility Pack
Nokia Carbide
Sun Java Wireless Toolkit

And the winner is NetBeans Mobility Pack. Comments from one of the nominators were:

Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP development
Visual Mobile Designer for rapid development and prototyping
Target mobile applications for multiple devices
On-device debugging completes the scene of building and deploying to devices
New game builder

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Where Duke meets with Red Bulls and Jameson

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:50:47 +0000

It is relax time. Therefore it is time for some pictures. These are pictures from Sun's office of the Mobility team at Chodov Park business center. You can see that we changed the enviroment to fit our needs. We have lot of empty Red Bull cans here (thanks to Jirka who drunk it every day). We have empty Jameson bottles (thanks to Jameson party at the Chodov Park area). We have army of Dukes (thanks to users that didn't pick them up somewhere sometimes). We have also collection of snow balls (thanks to Fabiola).

Fabi's snow balls collection

Army of Dukes

Jamesons

Red Bull cans

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2008

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0000

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Lukas

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:14:01 +0000

There will be a conference in Santa Clara focused on Java ME developers. Its name is Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days. It is organized by mobileandembedded.org community. Lot of great presentations, lot of "big" names will be there.
They accepted our talk with name Building slick applications with SVG and advanced graphics. It still not sure that I'll appear at the conference. The main reason is always the same - money. However the presentation will be delivered anyway. It will be about development of applications using SVG graphics and JSR 226 with NetBeans Mobility. I hope that we will show some features and hints that you don't know yet.

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JavaPolis: Day 3

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:05:20 +0000

Today is my last day at JavaPolis. Yes, it is all about the money. Unfortunately, my budget for this conference was very limited.

The opening keynote session with James Gosling was interesting. James showed where the Java is now and where it is going. He also showed one slide about the super duper secret thing that the guys in my office are working on - Tools for JavaFX. There are two types of JavaFX "developers". A real developer - I mean guy who really codes something. And a designer that creates the whole UI with the nice effects. These two are absolutely different but they need to cooperate to create cool aps with cool UI. The "Tools for JavaFX" (doesn't have name yet) should provide support for both of them and let them easily cooperate on one project. I saw a few prototypes and they are amazing

My flight is after 7 PM therefore I'll miss the afternoon's sessions. I hate the thing that you have to be at airport a few hours before the flight. Oh, and yes, the flight is from Brussels which is another hour by train from Antwerps.

I really enjoyed the stay here at JavaPolis. I hope that the audience get the message on my presentations - "NetBeans Mobility 6.0 rocks". Have you tried it? Watch the demo videos!

Pictures

NetBeans at Javapolis

Sun's booth

Alexis, Brian and Magda

Vincent Brabant with Magdalena Goldyn discussing localization of NB to French

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: JavaPolis: Day 2

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:44:51 +0000

I woke up a little bit late today (damned alarm clock). However I made it on time to appear at the presentation in morning where I was a co-speaker of Ludo. The name of the presentation was NetBeans and Java EE 5 development by Ludovic Champenois and Lukas Hasik. Thanks to Ludo I had opportunity to show the End to End functionality of NetBeans. There was no time for this feature in my Monday's talk. Ludo explained everything from glassfish to Java EE support in NetBeans IDE to the audience. Pretty lot of informations. I showed demos how to create mobile client to a web service and mobile client that call methods on server side directly. I managed to show even the data binding library that it part of NetBeans Mobility 6.0. I don't think that any other IDE provides such complex support for Java ME (and Java EE).

Jim Weaver stays in the same hotel as me. Therefore I had chance to meet him before his after lunch talk JavaFX in Action. He showed a first real applications created in JavaFX. I've seen just a demo apps till now. He seems to be very excited about the language.

Another session on my list this day was A gentle introduction to dependency management with Apache Ivy by Xavier Hanin. I discovered that they created something a little bit more generic than the module dependency system in NetBeans IDE. I'm really looking forward to see a plugin from .JARa for visualization of module dependencies in the NetBeans IDE.

I'm quality assurance engineer (and I'm quite good in it ) therefore I wanted to see what Alex Ruiz and Yvonne Wang Price created in project FEST. Their session GUI testing with FEST was interesting however I was really wondering why they created another frame work for testing of GUI of java application. The NetBeans QA team is using Jemmy framework for functional testing. The library was created looong time ago.

After all these sessions there was a time for a party. What is better then party where you can meet all the speakers? The timing of the party wasn't perfect, IMO. OTOH, all the speakers that I've seen today(Wednesday) look fine
I have short memory therefore I'll list here the people that I met at the party - Paul Sandoz, Ed Burns, Yara Senger, Jim Weaver, Radek (Polish JUG), Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Brian Leonard, Fabrizio Giudici, Vincent Brabant, Ludovic Champenois, and others (see I already forgot a few names )

Picture is worth a thousand words...

.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) Plugin Manager's Settings tab redesigned

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:20:21 +0000

In the NetBeans Plugin Manager there is redesigned Settings tab. You can see this change in new daily builds of NetBeans IDE. I like the terminology that is used there for distinguishing between Plugins and NetBeans Modules (NBM). The term Plugin is used now for what I called a category in my last blog entries. The second one corresponds to a single .nbm file. Unfortunately this wording is probably not final yet.
There is one feature that is disabled by now - Install into shared directories. It used to be called Global option in the Update Center Wizard contained in former releases. This feature is not implemented yet so that the checkbox stays gray now.
The look of all tabs is consistent now in Plugin Manager. Besides changes in Settings tab there are some small improvements especially in description panels which have now different background for plugin/.nbm name and the Install tab contains buttons Activate/Deactivate by this name on the right.

The Settings tab look.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) Redesign Settings tabu v Plugin Manageru

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:19:19 +0000

V NetBeans Plugin Manageru proběhl redesign Settings tabu. Tato změnu můžete vidět v posledních denních buildech NetBeans IDE. Osobně se mi líbí terminologie použitá pro rozlišení Pluginu od NetBeans Modulu (NBM). Termín Plugin je nyní použitý pro to, co jsem v minulých příspěvcích označoval jako kategorie. Druhý význam odpovídá souboru .nbm. Bohužel to zřejmě ještě není finální názvosloví.
Na Settings tabu je jedna vlastnost, která ještě není povolená - Install into shared directories. Odpovídá to Global instalaci, která bývala v Update Center Wizardu. Tato vlastnost, ještě není naimplementovaná, proto je checkbox zatím šedivý.
Vzhled všech tabů je nyní v Plugin Manageru konzistentní. Vedle změn v Settings tabu došlo k drobným úpravám zvláště v panelu pro popis pluginu. V něm je teď odlišná barva pozadí pro jméno pluginu/.nbm a v Install tabu je vedle něj umístěný button Activate/Deactivate.

Vzhled Settings tabu.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) Plugin Manager notices

Wed, 30 May 2007 17:10:41 +0000

There are some terms and use-cases of NetBeans Plugin Manager that are not clear for some users. I will try to summarize the most important of them:

1.First of all there are 2 different actions "install" and "activate" in Plugin Manager. The difference between them is following:
Installed plugin can be activated or deactivated. Deactivated plugin is not loaded by the module system so that it doesn't waste resources until it is activated. It resides in proper directory so that it can be activated (loaded by module system) quickly. During the installation of ordinary plugin it is automatically activated (special plugin types - Eager, Fixed and Autoload behave differently). Such details should not be important for users.

2.How can be plugin uninstalled?
There are 2 views of plugins in Plugin Manager. The default "category view" and simple "plugins view". The first one is better for most of users because plugins are grouped to the categories and operations are invoked at these categories. It is more synoptical because users work with the short list. The second "plugins view" may be valuable for advanced users that need to install/uninstall/activate/deactivate only single plugin. This is not so common so that the recommended is the "category view". The view can be switched in Plugin Manager's Settings tab through the "Show plugin details" checkbox.
In the NetBeans Plugin Manager there is the "Installed" tab that contains list of installed plugins/categories. Plugins/categories can be uninstalled by selecting the checkbox by the plugin/category followed by pushing Uninstall button.
To deactivate category/plugin there are popup menu items in Installed tab starting with the word Deactivate. Similar way is available for Activate action. I have to mention that the part of activation and deactivation is going to be redesigned.

3.How can I see list of plugin dependencies, classpath?
The installation of dependencies should be transparent for users. Users usually don't care about dependencies, classpath... they just need to install some feature. This is why the "category view" is default in the NetBeans Plugin Manager.

4.Show it in Updates vs. New Plugins tab
Plugin Manager has one not very intuitive behavior. Let's assume we have e.g. editor plugins "X" and "Y" grouped in category with name "Editing". Imagine that the user installs this group. Then let's assume that new plugin "Z" is added to update center and it is categorized to "Editing" too. From the group point of view the category is partially installed so that it appears in "Updates" tab. But when the plugin view is active then "Z" plugin appears in "New Plugins" tab (in this case it is just a single plugin no matter what category it belongs to). I do agree that this behavior is not very comprehensive at the first sight.

5.How to Select All/Deselect All
In Plugin Manager you can invoke popup menu on lists of categories/plugins. There are contextual items in this popup like Select All/Deselect All.

6.Merge Downloaded to New Plugins
In one comment of my blog there appeared idea that "Downloaded" can be merged to "New Plugins", in addition to provide a "add local module" button. I don't agree with this, because it is more synoptical to have these in separate tabs (at least for me). Maybe this is a topic for discussion with others.

At the end I would like to say that the Plugin Manager is not completely finished yet. There is big progress on fixing issues and some improvement are still in process. For example Active column wil be removed from Installed tab or contextual popup menu items will change. I hope all changes will help to usability of the Plugin Manager.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) Poznámky k Plugin Manageru

Wed, 30 May 2007 17:10:32 +0000

Podle prvních ohlasů nejsou některým uživatelům zřejmé některé termíny a use-cases z oblasti NetBeans Plugin Manageru. Pokusím se proto shrnout ty nejdůležitější:

1.Dvě odlišné akce "install" a "activate" v Plugin Manageru. Rozdíl mezi nimi je následující:
Nainstalovaný plugin může být ve stavu activated nebo deactivated. Deactivated plugin není natažený modulovým systémem NetBeans, takže nezabírá zbytečně zdroje až do doby, kdy je aktivován. Je umístěný v příslušném adresáři, takže může být velice rychle aktivován (natažen modulovým systémem). Při instalaci se běžné moduly rovnou aktivují (speciální typy pluginů plugin types - Eager, Fixed a Autoload se chovají odlišně). Detaily by neměly být pro uživatele Plugin Manageru podstatné.

2.Ja se dá plugin nainstalovat?
V Plugin Manageru je možné používat 2 odlišná view pro pluginy. Prvním a defaultním je "category view" a druhým je "plugins view". "Plugin view" by mělo být lepší pro většinu uživatelů, protože pluginy jsou grupované do kategorií a operace jsou prováděny nad těmito kategoriemi. Je to mnohem přehlednější, protože uživatel pracuje s kratším seznamem kategorií (seznam pluginů je obsáhlejší a proto méně přehledný). Naproti tomu "plugins view" by mohlo mít smysl pro zkušené uživatele, kteří potřebují instalovat/odinstalovat/aktivovat a deaktivovat jednotlivé pluginy. Takový postup není tak běžný, proto je doporučované pracovat v "category view". View se dá přepínat v Settings tabu Plugin Manageru pomocí checkboxu "Show plugin details".
V NetBeans Plugin Manageru je "Installed" tab obsahující nainstalované pluginy/kategorie. Plugins/categories mohou být odinstalovány pomocí chekboxu vedle pluginu/kategorie a následným stisknutím tlačítka Uninstall.
Pro deaktivaci kategorie/pluginu je možné použít položky v popup menu začínající slovem Deactivate. Analogicky jsou zde položky pro aktivaci. Zde je nutné zmínit, že pro aktivaci/deaktivaci se chystá redesign.

3.Jak se dají zjistit modulové závislosti a classpath pluginu
Instalace závislých modulů by měla probíhat transparentně pro uživatele. Uživatelé se zpravidla nezabývají tím, jaké jsou závislosti, classpath... pouze chtějí nainstalovat určitou funkcionalitu. To je důvod, proč je "category view" defaultní v NetBeans Plugin Manageru.

4.Zobrazení v Updates vs. New Plugins tabu
Plugin Manager obsahuje jedno ne zrovna intuitivní chování. Předpokládejme například, že máme pluginy do editoru "X" a "Y" a jsou zařzeny do kategorie se jménem "Editing". Představme si, že uživatel nainstaluje tuto kategorii. Následně předpokládejme, že je na update center přidán plugin "Z" zařazený rovněž do kategorie "Editing". Z pohledu grupování modulů se jeví kategorie "Editing" jako částečně nainstalovaná a proto se zobrazí v "Updates" tabu. Pokud ovšem pohlížíme na "Z" z pohledu "Plugin view", pak se objeví v "New Plugins" tabu (v tomto případě jde o jeden plugin bez ohledu na to, do jaké kategorie je zařazen). Uznávám, že toto chování není na první pohled příliš pochopitelné.

5.Jak udělat Select All/Deselect All
V Plugin Manageru lze na seznamu kategorií/pluginů vyvolat popup menu. V něm jsou kontextově zobrazeny položky jako jsou Select All/Deselect All.

6.Sloučit Downloaded do New Plugins
V jednom z komentářů u mého blogu se nachází myšlenka, že "Downloaded" tab by mohl být sloučený s "New Plugins". Pak by měl být k dispozici "add local module" button. S touto ideou nejsem ztotožněný. Řešení se mi totiž nezdá dostatečně přehledné, přehlednější je podle mne současné řešení se dvěma taby. Možná je to téma na diskusi pro ostatní.

Na konec bych chtěl říci, že Plugin Manager ještě není zcela ukončen. Je docela velký progres na fixování chyb a procesují se některá vylepšení. Například sloupec Active bude vyřazen z Install tabu, nebo taky dojde ke změně položek v kontextovém menu. Doufám, že všechny změny pomohou vylepšit usability Plugin Manageru.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) Improved NetBeans PluginManager

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:26:45 +0000

After the integration of PluginManager to the NetBeans cvs repository there appeared voices about the usability of this feature. Many users were not satisfied with the user interface so they have spoken up about it. The response to that dissatisfaction is improved user interface that you can see in new trunk builds. Complicated renderers were replaced by simplified ones so that the work with the plugin manager is easier now. Important is the change in panel division (area is divided vertically instead of original horizontal division). As for me the most important is that it is possible to install group of plugins at once (it is not necessary to select them apart). It is wort to say that there is added context popup menu with actions like Activate, Deactivate, Select All, Deselect All... For those who prefer plugin-based instead of category-based view there is the magic checkbox "Show plugins details" in Settings tab.

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) Vylepšený NetBeans PluginManager

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:22:23 +0000

Po integraci PluginManageru do NetBeans cvs repozitoře se rozpoutaly diskuse na téma usability tohoto nástroje. Spousta uživatelů byla doslova nespokojena s uživatelským rozhraním a dala to potřičně najevo. Odezvou na nespokojenost je nové vylepšené rozhraní, které je možné čerstvě vidět v trunk buildech. Pro snadnější práci s plugin managerem byly odstraněny komplikované renderery z tabulek obsahujících seznam pluginů. Zásadní je taky rozdělení plochy okna vertikálně namísto původního horizontálního dělení. Podle mne nejdůležitější je umožnění instalace skupiny pluginů najednou (bez nutnosti selekce každého pluginu zvlášť). Za zmínku stojí taky například přidání kontextového pop-up menu s akcemi jako jsou Activate, Deactivate, Select All, Deselect All... Pro ty, kteří preferují zobrazování pluginů místo kategorií je v Settings tabu magický checkbox "Show plugins details".

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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) NetBeans 5.5.1 is out

Thu, 24 May 2007 15:40:50 +0000

NetBeans 5.5.1 is live today and you can download it for free from http://www.netbeans.org. I will not describe what this version offers. Here is just couple of direct links where you can find the most important information about the release: download page installation instructions release notes
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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (CS) NetBeans 5.5.1 je venku

Thu, 24 May 2007 15:39:03 +0000

Verze NetBeans 5.5.1 je od dnešního dne na světě a je možné si ji zdarma stáhnout z http://www.netbeans.org. Nebudu zbytečně popisovat, co je možné v této verzi najít. Tady je několik přímých odkazů, na kterých lze najít nejdůležitější informace o releasu: stránka s downloadem instrukce k instalaci release notes
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.JARa's Bilingual Weblog: (EN) JavaOne notices

Tue, 22 May 2007 11:40:24 +0000

JavaOne conference that was in May 8th-11th in San Francisco was something rare for me. I was there and it meant many new experiences for me:

I flew by an airplane for the first time in my life
I left Europe for the first time in my life
I have seen such a big show as JavaOne for the first time in my life

Right away the first day in San Francisco it was very visible that the JavaOne Conference is going to be there in the city. I saw the JavaOne captions everywhere - on cabs, pillars, boards at pavements ...

I visited many valuable sessions at the conference. Based on them I have my view of the Java technologies trends. As for me people heard most often about JavaFX, Ruby/JRuby or BlueRay. I have felt very big press on Mobile world and I have heard often the word Community. And finally the word that JavaOne cannot exist without is NetBeans. Hopefully I have chosen correctly only the important.

During the conference time in the Moscone Center surrounding it was obvious that the JavaOne conference is going to be there..

Besides the conference I had a time for San Francisco sightseeing including Golden Gate Bridge.

The general impression from the stay was better than I expected and I am really glad that I had the opportunity to be there. The only bad thing on the stay was the call from my wife. She informed me that someone has spoiled our basement - her bike that we bought a year ago is occupied by someone else now

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