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NetBeans IDE 7 Cookbook Review

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:16:27 PDT

I have just read the NetBeans IDE 7 Cookbook, by Rhawi Dantas, so it is time for a quick review. This book, as most cookbook titles, is basically a collection of recipes which guide the reader, step by step, to accomplish each task. The recipes are divided basically in four sections:

Getting ready: helping the reader to organize the environment;
How to do it: a step-by-step guide throw the IDE interface;
How it works: a description of how it works and basically what the IDE do for you;
There's more: an additional description of how you can extend the procedure of the addressed task.

One of the first thing I always like to see in a book is if it is easy to read and specially easy to understand. NetBeans IDE 7 Cookbook is really ease to understand and the recipes are friendly to reproduce and follow. I should add that most images has a really good quality.

Another point I have liked at this book is that the first thing that is told at every chapter is what this chapter gonna cover and why it could be important for you, or not. It is really helpful when you are not a beginner.

There are some flaws at this book, that probably was caused by schedule issues. For example, this book focus on NetBeans IDE 7.0 but to follow the samples about JavaFX you need NetBeans 6.9.1. As far as I know, we can already use a beta support for JavaFX 2 at NetBeans 7.0. Another point is that there is no coverage for CVS at Version Control chapter. Some companies still use it and when you are migrating from another tool, this kind of information could be helpful.

My personal opinion is that this book is not intended for NetBeans advanced users, so if you already have experience with NetBeans, this book probably is not for you. If you are a beginner or are starting with NetBeans, this book will help you through some common development process using this amazing tool. If you would like to take a look at the book, you can read a sample chapter or even take a look at the official book's website for more information.

Happy coding!

NetBeans IDE 7 Cookbook review and another news

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:25:45 PDT

First of all, probably some of you have already heard NetBeans has announced it has reached the mark of 1.000.000 active users. That is an impressive mark and we hope this tool could help even more people in the future. Following this good news, I have been contacted by Packt Publishing to read and review its new book NetBeans IDE 7 Cookbook, written by Rhawi Dantas. You can take a look in a sample chapter at the book's page too.

I am really happy to see another Brazilian guy working and writing about this amazing tool and eager to be here soon again talking more about this new NetBeans book and my impressions about it.

Happy coding!

NetBeans 7.0 RC1 already available for download

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:41:13 PDT

The NetBeans Team has just make available a new test version of next major release of the NetBeans IDE. Take a look at the official announcement:

The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce that the first release candidate build of NetBeans IDE 7.0 is now available for download.

Download NetBeans IDE 7.0 Release Candidate 1
Learn More about NetBeans 7.0
NetBeans 7.0 Tutorials & Videos
Download the release candidate build and provide feedback on our mailing lists and forums, file reports, or contact us via Twitter. The final release of NetBeans IDE 7.0 is planned for April.

Well, it is time to test it and the countdown for the FCS has already started. Happy coding!

NetBeans 7.0 Beta 2 just release!

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:31:14 PST

It is a really note just to make all you know NetBeans 7.0 Beta 2 is out! It is available with Git support, so, it is time again to give a try to this new version. For more information about this new version, take a look at the official web page. To get the Git plugin, download Beta 2; In the IDE, go to Tools --> Plugins --> Available Plugins.

Happy coding!

How to set CVS compression for NetBeans IDE

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:07:27 PST

I was looking for how to use cvs compression inside NetBeans and I have just found the following message from Peter Pis:

On Mon, Jul 3, 2006 at 12:47 PM, Peter Pis wrote:

Hi Diego,
try to run netbeans with switch "-J-Dnetbeans.experimental.cvs.io.compressionLevel"

Example:

-J-Dnetbeans.experimental.cvs.io.compressionLevel=4

Level range = <0,10)

Regards,
-Peter

It is really old but thanks to GMail I still have it and the NetBeans source code still looks for this option :D

I have done some initial tests and it really works as expected for NetBeans 6.9 and I hope it can help you as it will help me a lot.

Happy coding!

NetCAT 7.0 is open!

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:00:03 PDT

Hello Bug Hunters! Now is time to join the NetBeans 7.0 testing program and help us weed out glitches for the next major NetBeans release. To do so, access the program website and register yourself and help to make NetBeans the best IDE for you.

Happy coding!

The Developer's Conference 2010 - Florianópolis

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:39:06 PDT

Este final de semana estarei participando do TDC em Floripa, mais uma oportunidade de rever alguns amigos. Caso você esteja pela região é mais uma ótima oportunidade de conhecer grandes profissionais bem como discutir sobre os mais diversos temas. Não deixe de prestigiar mais este grande evento promovido pela Globalcode e VOffice.

E claro, não deixe de prestigiar algumas das apresentações do Bruno Borges e do Bruno Souza, com certeza estarei por lá.

Vejo vocês por lá.

NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide review

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:13:17 PST

The first thing I would like to highlight is the foreword from Geertjan Wielenga, which makes clear this book has a target: introduce NetBeans Platform building a sample application from scratch and that "zero knowledge of the NetBeans Platform is assumed", but you should keep in mind that Java and Swing knowledge are required. If it is not what you are looking for, as suggested by Geertjan you could look for "The Definitive Guide to the NetBeans Platform" and "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform" which continue to be the best detailed sources about NetBeans Platform APIs, together with the several NetBeans Platform tutorials, of course.

The 1st chapter introduces the reader to the modularization world, why it is necessary with simple explanation and of course many aspects of how NetBeans Platform try to solve this issues are explained with good theory and samples. The most interesting point in this chapter is not just the NetBeans module system but the OSGi support, the de facto module system.

The 2nd chapter summarize how to create and customize UIs using Matisse and chapter 3th how to use and organize your UI in a NetBeans Platform using the Window System. These chapter was well write with good examples to how create and organize the views for your application.

The 4th chapter probably is one of the most important chapter in this book which describes one of the most important NetBeans APIs: Lookup. In this chapter, you will learn how to communicate between modules in a loosely-coupled way.

The 5th chapter the author presents to us how to write global Actions and the 6th chapter, together with chapter 4th, we have the most important chapter in my opinion, presenting the Nodes API and the Explorer and Property Sheet API. Here you will learn how and when use nodes as well how to shows it in your application.

The next two chapters covers the FileSystem API and Datasystems API respectively. These APIs help you to work with the local file system, the NetBeans central registry and how to registry and work with your own file types.

The 9th chapter covers how to write dialogs and wizards and chapter 10th how to store settings and integrate your application with NetBeans Options dialog. The next chapter 11th we learn how to create help sets and integrate it to Help menu as well how to support context-sensitive help sets for each of our UIs.

For next you will learn how to set the branding of the application, defining a new name and title for the application as well how to change the splash screen and icons in the chapter 12th. The chapter 13th shows you how to distribute the application creating installers for several operating systems as well how to distribute it in a ZIP file and the last but not least how to write and support live updates for your application or modules.

The book was really well write, the language is really accessible and easy to understand, and the examples cover satisfactory the book target.
There are minor issues as every book but I recommend it mainly if you don't know the NetBeans Platform or just know it superficially. In my opinion the only complain about the digital version of the book is the images quality, most of them are hard to read and understand since it look distorted.

If you wish to see more details and buy the book, visit this page.

New GridBagLayout designer for NetBeans 7.0

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:47:56 PDT

I have just noticed the new GridBagLayout designer for NetBeans 7.0. There is no much details yet but it is a really good addition for the new version, specially for people like me work with Swing day after day. To see the disclaimer about it, take a look at the NetBeans 7.0 news page. Hopefully I will have time to review this new feature here and post my personal fellings about it soon.

Happy coding!

Copy and Paste History module updated for NetBeans 7.0

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:15:44 PDT

I have just updated my module to support the new NetBeans 7.0. Some libraries updates was necessary and minor fixes has been done too so, if you wish to keep using the plugin at next NetBeans release, just download it from the plugin page.
Of course, if you wish to contribute to the plugin, just visit the page for access the source code or even file any kind of issue in java.net website.

NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide book is available

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:48:08 PDT

I have just downloaded my e-book for NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide. If you are interested please visit this page and get your copy. It is available both in PDF and Paperback versions.

NetBeans UML Plugin Ressurection!

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:08:33 PDT

Hi people,

I happy to say that since last week the UML support for NetBeans IDE was resurrected by the community as you can see the official announcement in the NetBeans new webpage. This effort is fully driven by the NetBeans community and if you wish to help to keep and improve this plugin don't hesitate to contact Javier Ortiz Bultrón or send your offer to developers@uml.netbeans.org mailing list.
For more details about what is going on, take a look at the project wiki page.

It is one more prove how strong is the open-source community! Thanks guys!

The Developer's Conference 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:55:01 PDT

A 4a edição do The Developer's Conference, promovido pela Globalcode, irá se realizar 20, 21 e 22 de agosto de 2010 na Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. Caso você esteja por São Paulo é uma ótima oportunidade de conhecer grandes profissionais bem como discutir sobre os temas mais relevantes da atualidade. Não deixe de prestigiar mais este grande evento dos meus amigos da Globalcode.

NetBeans 6.9 is alive!

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:29:34 PDT

It is time to salute the shine new NetBeans 6.9 release. You can see above some new features as:

JavaFX Composer to simplify and visualize JavaFX development;
JavaFX SDK 1.3;
Support for Equinox and Felix OSGi frameworks in NetBeans Platform;
Spring Framework 3.0 library support;
Java CardTM 3 Connected;
Rails 3.0 Beta support;
PHP Zend Framework support;
Support for JSR-299, Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI).

You can get more details in NetBeans 6.9 webpage as well start your download here. Should I say the performance for this new release is better than ever as well no opened issue from my side, so looks like it is really stable :)

I hope you enjoy it as I will!

Happy coding!

Divulgação: SCE Desenvolvimento de Soluções Java com Prática Empresarial

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:10:02 PDT

Você mora em Tubarão, SC, ou região e quer aprimorar seus conhecimentos na tecnologia Java focando práticas para desenvolvimento corporativo? Bom, irei ministrar algumas disciplinas no curso seqüencial SCE Desenvolvimento de Soluções Java com Prática Empresarial na UNISUL, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, focadas no desenvolvimento de aplicações desktop com persistência em banco de dados utilizando JPA 2 bem como desenvolvimento de relatórios. Se estiver a fim e desejar mais detalhes sobre o restante do curso, você pode visitar a página oficial do curso aqui.

Caso tenha alguma dúvida, fique a vontade para entrar em contato.

Bons estudos!

NetBeans 6.9 RC1 available!

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:02:53 PDT

Well, one more really is in the corner and now we can start to test the first RC version of NetBeans 6.9. You can get more details in NetBeans 6.9 webpage as well start your download here. Should I say the performance for this new release is really better than before.

Happy coding!

The correct way to file a performance issue for NetBeans IDE

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:08:48 PDT

Sometimes you feel your favorite IDE is slower or the memory consumption is higher than you expect so you usually file a bug but just a description is not enough to solve it. For this kind of issue the developers need more information as steps to reproduce and of course the heap and/or thread dumps of your system. Based on these informations some bottleneck could be identified and a solution implemented.

But get these information is not trivial for many users and NetBeans IDE has since version 6.7 a feature named Profile Me! or even Fitness Via Partnership which helps to make this task easier.

In this page you can see step by step how to get the thread dump from your system in the section Profile Me! and just below you can see the section Snapshot me! with details about how to get and send the memory dump. Many people are not aware about it so I hope this post could help you to file better issues to NetBeans project helping to make this the only IDE you need.

Happy coding!

How to solve NetBeans and Java editors problem when scrolling down large files under Linux the text becomes garbled, distorted or scrambled

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:04:45 PDT

I am sure one image tell more than thousands of works, so here... we... go!

If you are experiencing this kind of behavior in your application, IDE or any kind of editor, don't worry so much, it is a misconfiguration of your video device and you can face it in several Java applications. Just to track the problem, some issues was filed against NetBeans Issuezilla and them was identified as a invalid issue, since it is a video card misconfiguration. After some searches and tests I realized how to solve the problem. I am current using a Ubuntu 8.10 with an Mobile Intel X3100 video card, which was automatically configured by Ubuntu in my xorg.conf file as below:

 
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

The first step to solve the problem is to know which display controller you are exactly using. To got it, I used lspci command line tool, where Display controller property will say what you need. Now, you just need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the code that follow and don't forget to backup your current xorg.conf file:

 
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
Option          "AccelMethod"           "xaa"
Option          "RenderAccel"           "true"
EndSection

where Identifier should be your display controller. Now you just need restart your X server and back to work. For details about this solution, see this discussion and comments are really appreciated.

Another alternative is add a new property for JDK:


-Dsun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false

This should fix it too.

Happy coding!

New feature in NetBeans 6.9: Terminal and Remote Terminal Emulators

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:33:34 PDT

A new feature just added to the IDE, at least I think so :), is the new option to use terminal directly inside the IDE. The terminal has all features all use at Ubuntu terminal so, it is pretty awesome for me. To access this go to 'Window > Output > Terminal' or 'Window > Output > Remote Terminal'. Take a look here a image about this new feature.

Thanks Michael to point me this new feature. :)

Evento The Developer's Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:52:11 PDT

Mais um grande evento Java está chegando, e não apenas para o eixo Rio-São Paulo mas também para minha amada capital Floripa, o The Developer's Conference, organizado pelos meus amigos da Globalcode. Segue abaixo o anúncio oficial.

"A 3ª edição do The Developer’s Conference 2009, maior evento Java do país, contará com a participação de Chris Schalk, Developer Advocate do Google, trabalha atualmente no time de Google App Engine, plataforma de Computação em Nuvem do Google, além dos principais nomes da comunidade Java mundial: Ed Burns, Rod Johnson e Mike Keith. O evento acontecerá nas cidades de São Paulo (SP), nos dias 6 e 7 de novembro, em Florianópolis (SC) no dia 09 de novembro e no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 11 de novembro."

Noticias:

http://idgnow.uol.com.br/carreira/2009/10/02/evento-aborda-java-na-web-2-0-e-reune-desenvolvedores-internacionais/

http://info.abril.com.br/noticias/carreira/conferencia-java-traz-especialista-do-google-19102009-32.shl

Want to develop some feature to NetBeans IDE? Join to NetDEV program

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:52:11 PDT

You might have heard about NetCAT, the NetBeans Community Beta testing program. In an open source project like NetBeans it's no surprise there is a variety of other ways to contribute: You can help us fix bugs as NetFIX team member, or even cooperate on the development of new features under the new NetDEV program for the upcoming NetBeans IDE 6.8. Wanna get your hands dirty with source code and implement your favorite enhancement? Join NetDEV today and get your name listed in the NetBeans credits too and take a look at Toni's post about the program!!

NetBeans 6.7 FCS released

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:52:11 PDT

Now it is official, NetBeans 6.7 was just released. For details about this new version, take a look at NetBeans 6.7 release page.

For this version a huge effort about stability and performance was made. I hope you enjoy this release and now it is time to think about 6.8 coming this year yet.

So, if you found any issue at this release please file an issue at Issuezilla and help us to make NetBeans the only IDE you need.

Happy coding!

NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate 3 just released

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:29:01 PDT

One more RC was just released by NetBeans team and the FCS is coming soon. For details about this new version, take a look at NetBeans 6.7 release page. So, if you found any issue at this RC release please file an issue at Issuezilla and try to get it fixed as soon as possible.

Good tests!

Help us to make NetBeans the only IDE you need...

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:52:11 PDT

As I blogged yesterday NetBeans 6.7 RC2 was just released and now is time to see how stable it is. My friend Jiri Kovalsky, NetBeans Technical Community Manager, asked community to fill the final survey about NetBeans 6.7 RC2 acceptance to make sure the IDE quality is acceptable for community. So, see below the entire message about it and help us to make NetBeans the only IDE you need.

Regards

 
Hello NetBeans community,

NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate 2 has been released today and we believe it's the right time for the final Community Acceptance survey [1]. The essential purpose of this research is to find out if you - NetBeans community members - accept the latest RC build as ready for FCS or not.

[1] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/67/ca_survey.html

Hence I would like to ask everyone who already used the RC2 (*) to login to netbeans.org site and take this short survey. It will be open until Thursday - June 18th midnight last timezone. In spite of that please complete the survey as soon as you gain a solid opinion about the RC2.

(*) Please don't judge RC1 in the survey. Take RC2 instead because it contains one significant performance improvement.

Thanks for your feedback,
--
Jiri Kovalsky
NetBeans Technical Community Manager
http://www.netbeans.org

NetBeans 6.7 Release Candidate 2 just released

noreply@blogger.com (Michel Graciano) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:29:01 PDT

We are almost there again... One more release is coming soon and the RC2 was just released. For details about this new version, take a look at NetBeans 6.7 release page. So, if you found any issue at this RC release please file an issue at Issuezilla and try to get it fixed at RC3.

Good tests!