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NetBeans Zone - The social network for developers: Find Out How Boeing Uses the NetBeans Platform!

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:42:06 +0000

The JavaOne presentations from years gone by are all available on-line in various forms. Yesterday I discovered that one of the best NetBeans Platform presentations ever done at JavaOne is one of these. It is presented by two engineers working at Boeing, about the platform and application they built atop the NetBeans Platform. What the presentation focuses on:

APIDesign - Blogs: API Podcast #5: Can you win?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Here is another podcast recorded to explain importance of playing games while learning to design APIs. Ask yourself today: Can you win an API Fest with a change like this?

--JaroslavTulach 09:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Messages from mrhaki: Add Maven dependency in NetBeans

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:33:45 +0000

Maven support has improved a lot in NetBeans 6.7. One of the small, but important, features is the possibility to add a new dependency to a Maven project. In the previous version of NetBeans we could add a new library, but then we had to know the artifact and group name ourselves. In NetBeans 6.7 we can search for dependencies in the repositories, add an opened project or use the dependency management features of Maven.

To add a new dependency we right-click on the Libraries node of a Maven project and select Add Dependency....

NetBeans opens a dialog window where we can do several things to a dependency to our project. We can fill in the input fields ourselves and choose the scope from the Scope combobox.

But we can also search for a dependency in the repositories. To do this we must type text in the Query input field. The Search Results shows found libraries as we type. We select the library we want and press the OK button to add it to our project.

Instead of using a query we can use the Dependency Management tab. This tab is enabled if our project's POM contains a dependencyManagement section (or the parent POM most likely). The tab shows all available artifacts that are defined in the dependencyManagement. We select the artifact we want to add to our project and press the OK button to add it to our POM.

And finally we can even select the artifact from one of the open Maven projects in NetBeans. If we have more than one Maven project in the Projects window the Open Projects tab of the Add Dependency dialog window is enabled. To add the project's artifact to our POM we select the project and press the OK button.

Adam Bien: How To Debug Unit Tests In Netbeans 6.7

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:44:49 +0000

In Netbeans 6.7 you can invoke, and especially debug unit tests in the following way:

1. From test results:
- Invoke context menu on a given test and select 'Debug'

2. From project
- Select test file and choose "Debug->Debug Test File" from main menu or press Ctrl_Shift_F6 (on Mac Cmd_Shift_F6)

The way on how test are executed is changed right after 6.5, you may get more insight from http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=119922

Please also check http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=158812, to track the recent changes.

Thanks to Alexei Mokeev for providing this information - I was shortly before filing a P1 bug :-). In my opinion the Netbeans 6.5 way was more intuitive.

Messages from mrhaki: Generate code with code completion in NetBeans

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:38:02 +0000

The code completion for Java in NetBeans 6.7 also includes options for code to be generated. In previous versions we had to use Source | Insert Code..., but now we only have to press Ctrl+Space and we get to see which code can be generated by NetBeans.

Suppose we have the followings simple class:

package javaapplication11; public class MyObject { private String netbeansRules;
      }

We press Ctrl+Space (in Windows) to activate code completion (or select Source | Complete Code.... NetBeans shows the code completion popup:

At the top we see the code NetBeans can generate for us. We see constructors, methods to override from java.lang.Object and get/set methods for our property:

We select the option we want to let NetBeans generate the code.

Geertjan's Blog: Why Grails Users Will Like NetBeans IDE 6.7 Even More Than NetBeans IDE 6.5

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:17 +0000

Here's some news for Grails users. Let's say this is my domain class:

Now, this is code completion in the BootStrap.groovy for the above domain class in NetBeans IDE 6.5:

And now, in NetBeans IDE 6.7, here's code completion in the same BootStrap.groovy:

Not bad, right? Get started with Grails in NetBeans IDE here:

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/grails-quickstart.html

...or do so here on the Grails site:

http://www.grails.org/NetBeans+Integration

In other news. Now here's an interesting movie about Michael Jackson. Can't find the second part, though.

NetBeans Zone - The social network for developers: Central Washington University on the NetBeans Platform

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:46:49 +0000

Andreas Stefik (pictured, right) is an instructor currently teaching at Central Washington University (CWU). He is beginning teaching as an assistant professor next year at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). His primary area of interest and research is in developing custom programming languages and compilers.

N, Varun » NetBeans: Community Docs and NetBeans

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:36:34 +0000

This is the first time, I thought of filing an issue for NetBeans Community Docs Program as I have never ever thought there would be a need for it, in the past 2 years. Generally, no one has ever done that, AFAIK.

I have been an active contributor to NetBeans Community Docs Program and managed it as coordinator for the duration of 11 months (May ‘08 – Mar ‘09). However, I feel there’s lack of coverage of the resources, that are gathered and arranged in the form of several wikis interrelated with each other in a systematic way.

Through this issue, I would like to see increased presence of NetBeans Community Docs in the NetBeans Community. I have some ideas which I would like to put forward, but first I want to see interest from your side (Community Members and NetBeans Team).

Thanks!

Posted in Community Docs, NetBeans, Others

Toni Epple: What’s New in NetBeans Platform 6.7?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:28:40 +0000

There’s a great overview about the new features in NetBEans Platform 6.7 over at DZone:

What’s New in NetBeans Platform 6.7? | NetBeans Zone.

It has all the details. Read it and vote for it!

mkleint: Maven, NetBeans platform, JavaRebel

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:59:07 +0000

When I was playing with JavaRebel in April, it was not possible to use JavaRebel with the NetBeans platform. Basically because the module system is just another container and for each container you need a JavaRebel plugin. The guys at Zeroturnaround wrote the plugin a few weeks back (thanks!) so I've downloaded the nightly build and tried to experiment a bit. I've also worked some more on Compile on Save support for 6.8, so I wanted to test how far we've got with #161337. Here's the result.

NetBeans Community Docs Blog: NBCD Monthly Newsletter #26

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:02:26 +0000

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for June 2009 is now available.

To view the newsletter, please click the link below.

June 2009

View the NBCD Newsletter Index:

NBCD Newsletter Index

Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

N, Varun » NetBeans: Blog Series and PrayogShala

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:13:25 +0000

PrayogShala (New Blog)

I have some important news to share, I will contiuning some of the blog series (started here) at another blog. As announced yesterday, I have launched the new blog today.

Currently, there are two posts. One of the them, continues the series I started here with the following blogs;

Part Two | http://nbguru.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/netbeans-plugins-at-kenai-part-2/
Part One | http://nbguru.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/netbeans-plugins-at-kenai/

Hope you will like this change. Also, I have changed the look of this blog as you would notice. Hoping I will continue to provide quality content on both blogs and interested readers may read more about the new blog.

Stay tuned..

Posted in Kenai, NetBeans, Personal

NetBeans for PHP: Announcements

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:34:44 +0000

First let me announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7!

I would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the IDE better. Thanks for every reported issue, comment or contributed fix. To learn more about NetBeans IDE 6.7 please use the following resources:

Download NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/downloads
Videos about NetBeans IDE 6.7 http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/intro-screencasts.html
Features of NetBeans IDE 6.7 http://www.netbeans.org/features/
General information about the NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org/

Second announcement is that long awaited PHP 5.3.0 is released!

PHP 5.3.0 brings new feautures and bug fixes. See announcement for more details. NetBeans IDE 6.8 will bring support for PHP 5.3.0. For everyone who is eager to play with new features I can recommend to download one of latest PHP daily builds and try our current support. You may be pleasantly surprised and we are curious about your feedback. Definitely you can expect more blog entries announcing individual features in the couple of next weeks.

In perfect (spherical) shape: NetBeans and libraries

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:13:21 +0000

I just upgraded my NetBeans to version 6.7, and being quite lazy I didn't want to recreate all previous libraries and references, but obviously I need them. Yes, I might have decided to keep all settings from the previous version(s), which I regularly backup, but my interface had something strange and the dimensions of some widgets were quite quirky and my knowledge of the program does not go that far.

Anyway, after restoring the project I'm working on, NetBeans informed me of some missing references, just as expected.

Happy as a clam, I took the previous build.properties file, restored the lines that referred to my libraries (libs, sources and all) and... NetBeans stabbed me in the back! Still, it couldn't see the libraries!

After some restartings of the program and of the system (hey when you're working with Windows you get used to it... isn't it sad? and it often it works... isn't it sadder?) NetBeans still ignored my cries. It turned its back on me, despite all my affection steadily grown in all these years.

I gave up and recreated the libraries manually, but immediatly thereafter I checked the latest modified files in the .netbeans directory and found out what was missing... what I was missing, so actually NetBeans didn't stab me in the back so we're still in love. Yes, if you're wondering it, I had to apologize, but it happily welcomed me back.

Anyway, romances aside, when you create a library NetBeans not only adds the references in your build.properties file, but it also create an xml file in the config/org-netbeans-api-project-libraries/Libraries directory.

Should you need it... now you know!

As a sidenote: apparently NetBeans doesn't always allow the removal of different plugins at the same time, and it took me several tries to disable the profiler (actually I had to remove it, as I didn't manage to just disable it). More on the new version will probably follow, up to now I just can say that my peer likes the new colors of the splash screen.

While you wait, go get it yourself!

mkleint: NB 6.7 binaries in Maven repository

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:08:43 +0000

I've uploaded the Netbeans 6.7 final artifacts to the Maven repository at http://bits.netbeans.org/maven2/. It contains the module jars, NBM files, javadoc and source jars and other artifacts relevant to 6.7 release.

Please note that when upgrading your NetBeans platform application from 6.5 to 6.7, you need to increase the version of all artifacts from RELEASE65 to RELEASE67 and also in your nbm-application project, change the dependency from org.netbeans.cluster:platform9 to org.netbeans.cluster:platform10. The artifactId of the platform cluster has changed as the cluster version was increased. (Not sure what meaningful purpose the cluster numbering serves, but that's a different story)

 <dependency>
      <groupId>org.netbeans.cluster</groupId> <artifactId>platform10</artifactId> <version>${netbeans.version}</version> <type>pom</type> </dependency>

Please note that the current 3.0 version of the nbm-maven-plugin might have problems with NetBeans 6.7 . A new version of the plugin will appear shortly.

J. O'Conner Consulting » NetBeans: My valiant attempt to install JavaFX 1.2 into NetBeans 6.7

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:07:50 +0000

If you follow NetBeans development, you know that NetBeans 6.7 has been released this week. By far the friendliest IDE for JavaFX development has been NetBeans. However, in a very surprising twist, the latest NetBeans 6.7 release does not include the JavaFX SDK 1.2. Instead, the download’s information page clearly indicates that you’ll need NetBeans [...]

Messages from mrhaki: Auto popup code completion in NetBeans

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:36:01 +0000

In NetBeans 6.7 we can get code completion as we type. Normally we must invoke code completion with Ctrl+Space. To get auto popup code completion we go to Tools | Options | Editor | Code Completion. We select Java from the Language combo box. The option dialog window shows the option Auto Popup on Typing Any Java Identifier Part (What is in a name?). We must select the checkbox to get auto popup code completion.

Now when we write code in the Java editor the code completion popup window shows when we stop typing characters.

Messages from mrhaki: Change output font in NetBeans

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:36:20 +0000

In the new NetBeans 6.7 we can easily change the font of the output window. We must right-click in the output window and we get a popup menu. We select the option Choose Font... and we get a dialog window where we can choose the font for the output window.

Changing the size of the font is also very easy. If we right-click in the output window we get a popup menu with the options Larger Font and Smaller Font. The default shortcut keys in Windows are Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus. So if we have a lot of text in the output window and we have good eyes we can make the font really small to get it all in one output window.

Geertjan's Blog: Three NetBeans Platform Applications You Never Knew Existed

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:28:03 +0000

Right now, as we speak [type], I am working on articles/interviews relating to three applications on the NetBeans Platform... none of which anyone in the broader NetBeans Platform community knows about. So, to give you a sneak preview, here they are, with a little bit of background info on each. (Not too much info, otherwise why would you want to read the completed article/interview?)

First of all, I present... a financial application, which is created in Brazil, by Paulo Canedo, and a team of developers around him, who work for the Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Tocantins, a state in Brazil, where all the financial management related to the state is done on the NetBeans Platform. The application was started in 2007 and, in particular, Paulo's team likes the wizard framework of the NetBeans Platform, as well as the update center. Combined, these features enable the application to be responsible for all finances in the city, i.e., purchases and payments. The application processes data via XML and then transforms and stores in a Derby database. Furthermore, the application is used to analyze the data thus obtained and stored.

And here is a sneak preview screenshot (more in an upcoming article):

Next, an application by Ingmar Hendriks, and others, who are students at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Not very long ago, they completed a NetBeans Platform Certified Training. (My blog entry "Amsterdam on the NetBeans Platform" tells you all about it.) Ingmar's graduation project was to create a sensor monitoring application. He had to make two programs, a server and a client. Because he didn't have a whole laboratory full of sensors at school, he had to simulate the sensors by generating random values within a certain parameter. The generation of these random values had to be done on the server, with a time interval of a few hundred milliseconds and the server needed to store these values. This itself sounds very doable until you realize that over 400 sensors had to be simulated, each with an interval of a few hundred milliseconds and that these had to be stored into memory and not on the hard drive.

In order to achieve this, the memory had to be controlled, which is not possible with Java because you have no control over memory management... so C++ had to be used. The client, however, was a different story. It only needed to access the values of a sensor and show them in a chart. If a value on the server exceeded its preset safety parameter, it needed to show a warning or error in the client. Here's a sneak preview screenshot of the application that resulted from all of this:

And, finally, let's take a look at Central Washington University's programming tools for the blind that, hopefully, will make them more accessible. These tools are very complicated, as they involve custom compilers, debuggers, and sound architectures. These architectures then need to be built into standard IDEs.

Here is a screen capture of the environment as a whole, annotated with details of what was added at Central Washington University. Notice that, while the screen capture looks just like NetBeans IDE, what has been added is a new programming language (Hop). In addition, the debugger is "omniscient", which means that you can execute code forward and backward. For example, in most debuggers, you can click "Continue" (the green button) and step the code to the next breakpoint. In this debugger, you can also "Rewind" (the blue button) to the previous breakpoint. Similarly, most IDEs let you step over a line of code. This one also lets you step back:

What do these applications gain from being based on the NetBeans Platform? Modularity (i.e., you can create plugins for these applications), while being based on Swing (the standard UI toolkit). That's a combination that no other framework provides natively. Typically, a developer using the NetBeans Platform begins by appreciating the NetBeans Platform's Swing extensions, such as the window system and explorer views. Later, the modularity becomes increasingly useful, both from the side of development (i.e., encapsulate code on a level higher than packages, which makes it easier to create work areas for distributed development teams) and from the side of deployment (i.e., the end user is able to extend the application, by means of plugins, without needing to download/understand the entire codebase).

But, of course, this is simply the tip of the iceberg. To find out about several other NetBeans Platform applications, click here and browse through the whole showcase. Several known applications on the NetBeans Platform cannot be advertized, i.e., must remain secret, since they're the basis of, for example, military or financial systems whose underlying technologies cannot be made public. In many ways, that's a pity, because the full length and breadth of NetBeans Platform usage will probably never be known.

Want to advertize your application on the NetBeans Platform? For free? Drop me an e-mail at geertjan DOT wielenga AT sun DOT com and it will be given all the attention you desire (plus more).

Miles to go ...: FISL 2009 Wrapup - 3 talks, 1 talk show, 14 blogs, 10 videos, 275 pics, 2 GlassFish production stories

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:52:27 +0000

FISL 2009 wrapped up over the weekend. Even though the conference officially ended on Saturday but the connections made there will certainly allow us to continue all the great momentum. The conference celebrates open source and it was certainly great to see Federal Government and Banks with their booths in the exhibitor halls. The visit by Brazilian President Lula certainly highlights the importance of this conference to the local community. There were booths from Debian, Firefox, Ubuntu and other major open source softwares. Some commercial vendors had a booth as well and of course Sun Microsystems had a big presence with GlassFish, Open Solaris, NetBeans, MySQL and other offerings.

I delivered 3 talks and participated in 1 talk show:

Java EE 6 (slides) & Enterprise Features of GlassFish (slides)
Creating powerful web applications using GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans/Eclipse slides
Continuous Integration using Hudson (slides)
Simon Phipps Talk Show

This blog featured 14 blogs, 10 videos, 275 pictures and 2 GlassFish production stories over the past week. The collage is created from some of the pictures:

Click on the collage to see a larger version. The complete photo album is available at:

A playlist of all the 10 videos is below:

And now all the 14 blog entries ...

Over all, thoroughly enjoyed the Brazilian spirit and looking forward to next visit!

Many thanks to the Sun Brazil team, especially Bruno Souza, Mauricio Leal, Eduardo Lima, Vitorio Sassi and other Campus Ambassadors!

Technorati: conf brazil fisl javali glassfish netbeans mysql hudson

Java and Nigerian Developers » Netbeans: The Tale of Two Carpenters

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:13:40 +0000

Why is it a good thing to have personal frameworks and libraries, why don’t I just build a monolithic system, that does one thing and does it good. Let me tell you a story of two capenters.

Adrian the first capenter likes build things. He can build anything giving the proper amount of time and motivation.

Sean also loves building things, but he hates doing the same thing twice.

One day a company approached both Adrian and Sean to build a special kind of chair for them. They did this so that they could pick the best from both. Adrian was the first to turn in his prototype. He has it all well planned and thought out. They liked it and told him they will get back to him before long. They have to wait another two days before Sean could turn in his own prototype. They also liked it, It looked so much like that of Adrian, they have both followed the specifications well. When the time for choice came, they chose Adrian over Sean because he took less time in building his prototype.

Problems started when the have a new staff member who wouldn’t fit into the chair because he was….rather big. They need to modify the SEAT. They called in Adrian and he said no problem, he went ahead to modify the CHAIR, adding a new kind of seat. It took him as long as it took him to build the chair to modify the seat.

Over time, these modifications were becoming more and more frequent and Adrian has to build a new kind of chair almost every other week just because of a slight modification. It came to a time that the company weren’t happy and began complaining. They went on the lookout for Sean, just maybe he could help them.

They found Sean and told him their problems. He laughed and said that it wasn’t a problem at all, and then he told them why his prototype took a bit longer to produce.

Sean, unlike Adrian didn’t build a CHAIR. He built the components that make up the chair. He built the front legs, back legs, arm rests, back rests, seat etc. It took him as long as it took Adrian to complete the chair. After building the chair, he started assembling them and that was why it took him longer. But now the company suddenly saw the solution to their problem. Adrian built a chair and so each modification no matter how small will alter the chair. Sean built components therefore he will need to modify only the component parts that are affected.

I told this story to say that as a developer, I strongly believe that you try as much as possible to have a personal library. It will help you a lot in the long run. Those days when I was still naive, when I hear “library”, I don’t see it as a thing that I must build. My software are large and monolithic. A little change to one part of the software will make me pull down the whole bunch. Now I know better. Whenever I see a feature that I have used twice, either in the same project or different projects, It is going into a library. I am happier now than then.

Also when you have a large project, please and please MODULARIZE. You don’t want to know what trouble you will save yourself or the person maintaining that project in the future.

N, Varun » NetBeans: James Gosling, NBDT Honorary Member

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:09:04 +0000

I was wondering whether to blog this or not. However, I felt its important the NetBeans Community must know this. Last month at JavaOne, Sven Reimers who received Duke’s Choice Award, inducted James Gosling into the NetBeans Dream Team Wall of Fame. Thank you so much!

Netbeans Dream Team Honorary Members

Honorary members are previous Dream Team members who opted out. They must be a Dream Team member for a continuous year before they are Honorary Members. They reserve the right to be a Dream Team guest at any time. The do not reserve the right to use the Dream Team logo in future works. They do not receive any software, hardware, clothing, or other material benefits which may or may not be given to Dream Team Members.

Other News

I have setup a new blog for my experimental work, I like to carry out either with NetBeans Platform or any other technologies. I will be announcing it tomorrow.

Stay tuned..

Posted in Java, NetBeans, Personal

JamesBranam's Blog: NetBeans 6.7 Available

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:49:47 +0000

Hi all,

You've probably heard the big news: NetBeans 6.7 is live. Here is the official press release:

NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7!

The focus of NetBeans IDE 6.7 is connectivity—helping developers to connect to the latest technologies and to each other. New features include integration with Project Kenai, a collaborative environment for developers to host their open-source projects; native Maven support, and Hudson integration.

Building on the success of previous releases, NetBeans IDE 6.7 offers enhancements for Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy and C/C++, and more. Additional highlights include a self-diagnostic Profiler, and support for SVG Rich Components, remote debugging in Ruby, and the latest version of GlassFish. The release also provides plug-in support for Zembly, a single registry and repository for popular Web APIs.

Providing superior support for multiple languages and innovative team support through Project Kenai, the NetBeans IDE 6.7 is the ideal tool for developers to stay connected to their teams and to the latest technologies!

NetBeans IDE 6.7 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. There are several community-contributed localization efforts underway to support additional languages. Join the efforts today.

More information about NetBeans IDE 6.7:

As always, we welcome and encourage feedback about your experience using the NetBeans IDE. Share your thoughts on our mailing lists and forums. If you blog about NetBeans add your blog to Planet NetBeans. Follow NetBeans on Twitter for updates about NetBeans news and development.

NetBeans IDE Connects Developers!

Cheers!

--James

Adam Bien: Netbeans 6.7 (prev. Netbeans 7.0) - For Clouds - Detailed Overview

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:28:31 +0000

Netbeans 6.7 (7.0) features - detailed view (kenai, maven, javaee). Someone translated this article from German. Thanks for the translation!

If you want to try out kenai go to: http://kenai.com/projects/javaee-patterns/, or open "Kenai" Tab --> Open Project and enter: javaee-patterns.

NetBeans Zone - The social network for developers: NetBeans 6.7 Finally Released

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:49:55 +0000

Since today the final version of NetBeans 6.7 can be downloaded here. And do not forget to look here for a feature overview. If you tried the release candidates of 6.7 you will welcome all the new features! Great work! Where can we donate? The first impressions of this release for me as a NetBeans user are:

Netbeans: Download NetBeans IDE 6.7

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:49 +0000

NetBeans IDE 6.7 is out and available for download. The description as given in mailing list is as follows:

Download NetBeans IDE 6.7

More information about NetBeans IDE 6.7:

NetBeans IDE Connects Developers!

Miles to go ...: Digital TV-based Banking using GlassFish, NetBeans and MySQL - Ginga community in Brazil

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:08 +0000

Learn how GlassFish and NetBeans helped Ginga community to build a TV Banking application in Brazil. See a live demo of the product, it's really exciting!

Why GlassFish ? - They love how NetBeans tooling completely hides the complexity of what's happening underneath and the ease-of-use with GlassFish.

Thanks Hugo Lavalle for the interview and good luck with your product!

Technorati: conf fisl brazil glassfish story netbeans mysql ginga digitaltv banking

NetBeans Profiler: NetBeans IDE 6.7 Released

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:15:00 +0000

The NetBeans IDE 6.7 has been released at http://www.netbeans.org. News in this release are listed in NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Information, release notes are available here.

The profiler enhances heap analysis capabilities by supporting the OQL scripting in the HeapWalker (hit F1 in the OQL Console to get a detailed help), computing retained sizes for each instance on the heap and listing first N largest objects by retained size. The Overview tab introduces information about number of objects pending for finalization and thread call stacks at the heap dump if available.

The other major profiler improvements include support for exporting profiler results (live results, profiler snapshots, telemetry data) to CSV, HTML and XML and the self-profiling service called "Profile Me Now!" which helps to debug IDE performance problems.

To get a summary information about new profiler features and bugfixes see the NetBeans profiler 6.7 Release Notes.

Geertjan's Blog: Back from Brazil: Hello NetBeans IDE 6.7

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:12 +0000

I'm back from FISL in Brazil! Too many highlights to do justice to—experiencing presentations by Richard Stallman, Simon Phipps, and Peter Sunde was certainly one of them. Another was being in Brazil at all, of course. Anyway, I summarized it for anyone who'd like to know my take on what happened there (or, at least, to find out what kind of things I personally experienced):

What I found especially interesting about FISL was the focus on copyright / human rights law, as much as on technology itself. In other words, more often than not, the speaker would not do any demonstrations at all, nor talk about what wonderful things their company is doing. Instead, they'd talk about the current state of cybercrime legislation as it pertains to some area or other (see the above links for details).

My award for most inspiring presenter goes to Peter Sunde (Wikipedia entry). My award for most eccentric presenter goes to Richard Stallman (Wikipedia entry). From both I learned an incredible amount. See part 2 above, for all the details.

I had my own few minutes to tell my tale, in a presentation on Saturday entitled "Java Development: Beyond the IDE". Basically, it was all about how NetBeans IDE 6.7 raises the bar when it comes to what an IDE is able to do. For the first time, with NetBeans IDE 6.7, an IDE is able to manage your project beyond the create/edit/deploy/debug cycle: you can also store it (for free) in a source code repository, assign issues to it, retrieve the source code, and chat to other team members... all inside the same IDE where you did your coding! Uniqueness was never this unique.

Here's my presentation (though the majority was a demo, so you won't see much in the slides):

BeyondTheIDE.odp (OpenOffice)

And here's a pic of me presenting the agenda of the presentation:

The above entails that I demoed Kenai.com, GlassFish, MySQL, and VisualVM, in addition to NetBeans IDE. Of course, I ended by summarizing the main enhancements in 6.7:

By the way:

Download NetBeans IDE (for free!) here.

A lot of cool reactions afterwards. Attendees were amazed at how responsive NetBeans is and how many features it has out of the box. The first pic above was taken by Arun Gupta, the second by Eros Stein. He's a NetBeans user I mentioned in the 3rd part of my articles listed above. It was great to meet him. In terms of creating a community around a product, nothing beats talking to a user face to face!

Thanks for the great time at FISL. Especially to the Sun Campus Ambassadors who were there. They were great.

Michael Bien's Weblog: NetBeans OpenGL Pack 0.5.5 released

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:55 +0000

The NetBeans 6.7 compatible OpenGL Pack has been updated to version 0.5.5 and is now available on the plugin portal also. The current release is feature compatible with 0.5.4 (release notes) only JOGL and project webstart extensions have been updated to JOGL 1.1.1a security update.