Nabble - Netbeans Project Developers (not for user help)

Disabling Formatting for certain sections of code

2009-12-15T12:43:56Z

Hey guys,

What I would like is for you guys to allow me to disabling formatting of JavaScript and JSP. Basically, I like the auto formatting function, but it messes up when it gets to JavaScript. I guess a lot of people like the format such as:

Code:

if (something) {

However, I prefer:

Code:

if (something)
{

I know this seems like a non-issue, but all of these formatting changes show up as changes in our source control product.

I just spent most of an afternoon fixing the code back to the original format. I personally don't care very much, but I can't make everyone I work with change they code, just because I am lazy and want to use the auto-formatter.

I am forced to do one of the following. I can change source controls products, which will never happen. I could never user the formatter, or only use it for small code sections, and then tab them over manually. (Because if you do it for a small section it starts the tab indents of that section to the far left.) I know I can get around this sometimes, but it kind of a hassle.

My favorite choice would be to simply turn off the formatting for a certain language. I understand that writing a more versatile parser for JavaScript formatting might be a hassle, but would simply turning it off, for the entire section be overly hard?

Maybe it is too hard to do that.

Thanks,
Grae

Fw: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/enterprise6/

2009-12-15T11:50:52Z

got no answer from nbusers;

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To: nbusers@...

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Subject: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/enterprise6/

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/enterprise6/

when i dnload a plugin / nbm , nb68 says the plugin is already installed.

does netbeans check version info in the nbm before saying already installed?

or do i have to delete the prev installed updated module/nbm/jar first ?

also -- on attempting to install netbeans 200912130200, i already have 200912090200 installed --

netbeans installer reports everything is already installed;

i guess this info comes from installer looking into .netbeans/dev directory ?

does this mean things are really uptodate ?

also -- do i always need to fresh install a new dev dnload when things change ?

or can newer dev builds be updated to ? --- ie, is there a clear way to know when an update will work,

verses need to dnload a complete newer dev build ?

thanks

gary

Development of SOA modules

2009-12-15T11:20:36Z

Hi!

I am evaluating the development (respectivley the extension) of some SOA of the available netbeans SOA modules. In my opinion the setup is somehow confusing. According to http://soa.netbeans.org/#downloadsandstatus the SOA modules have been taken out of the standard netbeans distribution and now reside in the OpenESB project.

Oddly when checking out the Netbeans sources via hg, you also get the SOA plug-ins. But these seem not to correspond to the version of those plug-ins which were shipped with e.g. 7.1.1.

It would be nice, if someone could give me a pointer which revision to check-out, especially which Netbeans target platform one should use when developing SOA components
(I don't want to compile a whole Netbeans, but just the modules I am interested in, see http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqOrphanedNetBeansOrgModules)

In addition to this I could not find any of the SOA classes in the Netbeans API. Are these considered as Netbeans internal?

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
nonpolar

how does NB handle anti-aliasing code-wise?

2009-12-15T10:24:49Z

Sorry for the cross-posting, but I wasn't sure where to best post this
question, since the answer may involve NB code:

Our application uses Liquid L&F. Although we are really happy with it,
overall, it hasn't been maintained for awhile (the last version I see is
from 2006). One of the complaints we've gotten from our Windows-based
customers is that the fonts didn't look good - there was no
anti-aliasing. We fixed this, for the time being, via a hack that
involves SwingUtitlities2:

Object aaTextInfo =
SwingUtilities2.AATextInfo.getAATextInfo(true);

UIManager.getDefaults().put(SwingUtilities2.AA_TEXT_PROPERTY_KEY,
aaTextInfo);

This works for us. But using a private, implementation-specific class
is obviously not the best way to go - if for no other reason, I want to
get rid of the constant compiler warnings about using Sun-proprietary
APIs :-(

But what's the solution? I followed various trails on the 'net:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6506298
http://old.nabble.com/LCD-Antialias-Text-in-Java-6-td7894712.html

and one of the posters suggests that NB, as of 5.5 does it in the
"officially approved" way. Does anyone know what that is? Another
poster (Kirill, do you still read this NB mailing list??) suggested that
Substance L&F fixed this problem as of version 3.2 also. Again, does
anyone know how it was fixed? If someone points me to the solution,
maybe I can apply it to Liquid and contribute that change back.

Thanks a bunch,
Tom

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Re: How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T09:55:52Z

Hi Dimitris,

I now understand.

If I were you I would do the following.

1.- Create a custom project with all your stuff:

a) Create a plain Java project in NetBeans IDE in folder X.
b) Create a X/lib directory and copy the jars you need to run your
simulator.
c) Add all the "X/lib/*.jar" files to your Project libraries. Remember
to use a "relative path" for those

You now can edit your agent files. "compile" and "debug" your project.
That's two requirements met!

d) Choose the "Files" tab and open the "YourProject/build.xml" file in
there. That is the file that is invoked with Ant when you hit the
"Build", "Clean & Build" and "Run" buttons in NetBeans. You can modify
that file to meet your needs. Since you now have "compile" and "debug"
by default you have only to modify the "run" task:

Add a "<target name="run">" there, and invoke the simulator with your
agents. You may want to add an external properties file that specifies
which are your agents, or something. This is basic a basic "ant" file
that you can customize. If you need help with this then ask for help in
an ant-users mailing list or something.

You now have a Java project that can compile, debug and run your agents
and your simulator. Now let's embed that in the IDE.

2.- Adding your custom project to the IDE.

Once you have your basic project up and running and you're satisfied
with it (you can compile, debug and run your simulator from the project)
all you want is to add that project type to NetBeans. To do that you
have to follow this tutorial:

http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-projectsamples.html

3. Distributing your module.

Once you've followed the tutorial you'll end up with a NetBeans module
that adds a new project type (let's call it "Simulator Agent Project
Type"). You can create a "NBM file" with your module (or create an
application using a Module Cluster). You can then either distribute the
NBM file to your uses (and they'll have to install it inside their
NetBeans IDE) or you can distribute the whole application.

Your users will then say "File/New Project/Simulator Agent Project" and
they'll be able to compile, debug and run the simulator.

4. Next steps.

Once you're satisfied with the results you can add some extra modules to
your project type. This is a more high-level thing to do, so I'll do
this in a final step.

You may add Project customizers, for example, so that your users can
specify parameters for their simulator. These customizers could edit the
properties file you used in step 1.d (if you have) and modify the
parameters of the properties file in a visual way.

Or you could add a file-type to your project with these settings (and
store settings in a file named "agent-settings.abc", and associate
".abc" to this file type.

Or add a "Help Module" with guides on how to use the simulator.

Finally you could do some more elaborated stuff, such as adding
autocompletion to your project, that would require you creating a
library with javadoc and embedding that within NetBeans.

Possibilities are unlimited!

Hope this helps. If you get stuck then ask for further help here.

Cheers,
Antonio

On 15/12/09 17:23, dimitris74 wrote:

> Hi Antonio,
>
> I think you got it, it is hard to explain this in a few lines but yes what I want to do is build an extension to the Netbeans IDE where the main simulation lives and then users can create java projects with logic that gets compiled and executed within the module. The Executor is just a class that I am developing and which can be used by the Simulator.
>
> To give you a bit more information, a user can implement specific simulation logic for a specific problem. This is an agent-based simulation so the whole problem is expressed with agents. Users create agents in their java project and the Executor is the class that puts everything together. Now the IDE has the module I am trying to develop, the Run button and something to select an Executor. In one Java project you might have lots of Executors for different experiments. So from the IDE you select an Executor and when you click the Run button the java project code is compiled and run within the Simulator in the Module I am trying to build so everything runs in the NB Module JVM. I also want to offer the ability to users to debug their code but that is a step further I guess. So any ideas? I am more than happy to give you more info.
>
>
> Thanks
> Dimitris
>
>
>
>
>

How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T08:45:50Z

Jesse Glick wrote:
> dimitris74 wrote:
>
> > Hi I just noticed that a lot of the text from my previous post was cut and thus was not making much sense.
> >
>
> Did you read my response from Dec 07?

Hi yes I have noticed it but could not understand what the answer was, sorry.

Dimitris

Re: How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T08:23:14Z

dimitris74 wrote:
> Hi I just noticed that a lot of the text from my previous post was cut and thus was not making much sense.

Did you read my response from Dec 07?

How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T08:23:06Z

Hi Antonio,

I think you got it, it is hard to explain this in a few lines but yes what I want to do is build an extension to the Netbeans IDE where the main simulation lives and then users can create java projects with logic that gets compiled and executed within the module. The Executor is just a class that I am developing and which can be used by the Simulator.

To give you a bit more information, a user can implement specific simulation logic for a specific problem. This is an agent-based simulation so the whole problem is expressed with agents. Users create agents in their java project and the Executor is the class that puts everything together. Now the IDE has the module I am trying to develop, the Run button and something to select an Executor. In one Java project you might have lots of Executors for different experiments. So from the IDE you select an Executor and when you click the Run button the java project code is compiled and run within the Simulator in the Module I am trying to build so everything runs in the NB Module JVM. I also want to offer the ability to users to debug their code but that is a step further I guess. So any ideas? I am more than happy to give you more info.

Thanks
Dimitris

Re: How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T08:14:15Z

Quoting dimitris74 <dimt74@...>:

> Hi I just noticed that a lot of the text from my previous post was
> cut and thus was not making much sense. Anyway here is my question:
>
> How can I achieve communication between a java project and a module

I think you mean that you are building an IDE that has java projects
(you are building an extension to NetBeans, for instance), and you
want to invoke something from within a module.

I think you *don't* mean you're running your java project in a JVM and
a module in another JVM, and that you want to communicate both JVMs to
do something.

> so that the module compiles and instantiates code that has been
> written in the java project?

Modules don't usually compile anything. Java compilers do.

>
> The module references a simulation API and the SimEngine class with
> a run method. Below I give you a brief idea of what it looks like:
>
> private Executor executor;
>
> public void addExecutor(Executor executor){
> this.executor = executor;
> }
>
> public void run(){
> // there is preprocessing code here
> executor.run();
> // there is post-processing code here
> }
>

"Executor" is java.util.concurrent.Executor or what?

>
> To run a simulation the module has an editor with a simple run
> button and once that is clicked the module has to find an
> implementation of the executor in the java project, compile it,
> instantiate it, add it with the addExecutor method and then run it.
>

Ah, I think I start to understand.

What you want to do is that you have a "Run" button in your IDE, and
that when you press it then everything in your project is compiled,
you seek for the "Executor" thing in your compiled code and then you
run it. I assume you're not invoking the same executors when you press
the "Run" button, becasue then if you compile and "Run" things 10
times you probably don't want to run the executor 10 factorial times.

To help you with this I need to know if you're expecting to run the
simulator within the IDE (this is, taking resources such as memory
from the IDE) or if you may run it outside the IDE, as a separate
process.

Once you answer that question I can give you some more hints.

Cheers,
Antonio

> What I am missing is the process of compiling a specific class from
> the java project and adding an instance of it in the module to be
> used by the module. I dont know if there is a simple mechanism
> within the Netbeans libraries that I can use. Please let me know if
> this is not very clear.
>
> My aim is to develop the simulation application on the Netbeans
> platform, take advantage of the rich APIs but still allow the users
> to add simulation logic in java classes and interact with the main
> engine.
>
> Thanks
> Dimitris
>
>
>
>
>

How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-15T05:33:25Z

Hi I just noticed that a lot of the text from my previous post was cut and thus was not making much sense. Anyway here is my question:

How can I achieve communication between a java project and a module so that the module compiles and instantiates code that has been written in the java project?

The module references a simulation API and the SimEngine class with a run method. Below I give you a brief idea of what it looks like:

private Executor executor;

public void addExecutor(Executor executor){
this.executor = executor;
}

public void run(){
// there is preprocessing code here
executor.run();
// there is post-processing code here
}

To run a simulation the module has an editor with a simple run button and once that is clicked the module has to find an implementation of the executor in the java project, compile it, instantiate it, add it with the addExecutor method and then run it.

What I am missing is the process of compiling a specific class from the java project and adding an instance of it in the module to be used by the module. I dont know if there is a simple mechanism within the Netbeans libraries that I can use. Please let me know if this is not very clear.

My aim is to develop the simulation application on the Netbeans platform, take advantage of the rich APIs but still allow the users to add simulation logic in java classes and interact with the main engine.

Thanks
Dimitris

Pls help me with a solution to resolve these netbeans IDE problem

2009-12-14T06:34:07Z

Hi,

It's so tough to even reach this emal so I hope someone can help me with these error messages from netbeans IDE. I have already wasted 8 hours just to get here so any help is greatly appreciate.

The error messages are :-

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:174)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:388)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1414)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1059)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibraryDeclarationParser.parse(LibraryDeclarationParser.java:274)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibraryDeclarationParser.parse(LibraryDeclarationParser.java:226)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesStorage.readLibrary(LibrariesStorage.java:238)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesStorage.loadFromStorage(LibrariesStorage.java:159)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesStorage.initStorage(LibrariesStorage.java:211)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesStorage.getLibraries(LibrariesStorage.java:316)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesModule.initProviders(LibrariesModule.java:63)
at org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries.LibrariesModule.restored(LibrariesModule.java:58)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.NbInstaller.loadCode(NbInstaller.java:440)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.NbInstaller.load(NbInstaller.java:361)
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:917)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.installNew(ModuleList.java:289)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.trigger(ModuleList.java:225)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.restore(ModuleSystem.java:276)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:168)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:309)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:111)
[catch] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

and

Programming\WPRG_ValidationExperiments\WPRG_ValidationExperiments\nbproject\build-impl.xml:480: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\Documents and Settings\Karen Goh Seow Hui\Desktop\Web Programming\WPRG_ValidationExperiments\WPRG_ValidationExperiments\nbproject\build-impl.xml:366: The libs.CopyLibs.classpath property is not set up.
This property must point to
org-netbeans-modules-java-j2seproject-copylibstask.jar file which is part
of NetBeans IDE installation and is usually located at
<netbeans_installation>/java<version>/ant/extra folder.
Either open the project in the IDE and make sure CopyLibs library
exists or setup the property manually. For example like this:
ant -Dlibs.CopyLibs.classpath=a/path/to/org-netbeans-modules-java-j2seproject-copylibstask.jar
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

If you are not the person responsible to help, please kindly forward my email to the right person for which I'll deeply appreciate it.

Thanks,

Karen

Re: How to expose Service from Module to Java App

2009-12-13T07:12:12Z

dimitris74 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you probably noticed from my previous posts I am trying to achieve something which I find difficult at the moment possibly because I am new to the Netbeans platform. I have developed over the years a simulation library and for a while I was developing simulation apps using it. However I would like to automate a lot of the tasks and decided to create a module to do that. Once that module is installed the user will be able to create a new project from a new simulation template. Once the project is created a simulation editor would become visible. Under the project I want to have separate simulation implementations invoked from the simulator editor. When you want to run a new experiment select the implementation you want and click run on the editor. This will essentially build the java code and then run it producing output to the IDE. If you want to debug the simulation implementations then it should be possible to do so. In a summary this is what I want to achieve so I am!
so
> rry if my previous explanations were not as clear.
>
>
> Dimitris
>
So, what's your question? What's the problem that you're hoping someone
will help you with?

Gj

Finding the closing brace undent

2009-12-12T17:04:05Z

Thank you, Ernie.

multiple mimetypes for a custom File Type

2009-12-12T13:07:46Z

Hello,

Is it possible to have a custom File Type that consists of several mime types and have the editor to recognize the content for syntax highlighting and code completion?

I have a PHP file which consists of PHP code and custom XML tags and xhtml tags.
I have created a custom file type and set the mime type to text/x-mytype+x-php5+xhtml+xml.

When I debug the token sequence using:

Code:
TokenHierarchy<Document> hr = TokenHierarchy.get(mydoc)

I only get XML as the token sequence. The editor then recognizes the contents of the file as XML the PHP and XHTML parts do not get code completion at all.

What I am doing wrong here?

Keyring API

2009-12-12T10:36:26Z

There is a new API in NB 6.9 (Platform and IDE) for storing passwords securely:

http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-keyring/org/netbeans/api/keyring/Keyring.html

If you maintain a module that needs to persist passwords or similar confidential data, use this API rather than relying on ROT-13 obfuscation or the like.

Besides a generic fallback implementation based on a master password (akin to the system in Firefox), there are special implementations unlocked by user login for Gnome
("Passwords and Encryption Keys"); Mac OS X (Keychain); and Windows (custom encrypted storage). If anyone out there is experienced with JNA and/or security APIs and would
like to tune one of the implementations, or add support for other platforms (e.g. KWallet), that would be great; just file bug reports blocking

https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173413

The API has few dependencies on the rest of the NB Platform, so it could be broken out into a library on kenai.com if there is sufficient interest. (Since it seems like a
fundamental service, in the long run it would be nice to have something similar in the Java platform.)

Question about writing extensions to the NB Java editor

2009-12-12T10:00:05Z

Hi,

I would like to ask your opinion about the following problem:

I am designing a small, nimble yet equally safe superset of the Java language called Sen and would like to create an integration for it in NB.

The original idea was, that a preprocessor would compile the Sen code to Java, then you could use all the Java tools in your disposal to do whatever you want to do: debug it, run it, compile it. Then the idea evolved to a form, where there is a Java codebase and absolutely no Sen code stored in your project, and the editor itself would be the tool that displays all code you work with in Sen format - but would do absolutely nothing with it from the point of view of the IDE. (So there would be an unambiguous two-way conversion between languages.)

To clarify things, a list of features:

- On the fly conversion to and from Sen and Java.

- All the code would be stored in Java, the editor and IDE would work in Java, the only difference would be that you, the user would see and extend the code as it was Sen not Java, too. Eg. the actual file would contain a line like "int i = 1;" but you could read "i 1;" in the same line in your editor window.

- Another idea would be to create dual-tab editor windows, where you can switch between Sen and Java view, as if in an XML editor window you could switch between tree and source view.

- It is important that you should be able to do everything with your code you did before, profile it, autocomplete it, etc. In addition to that, there should be somehow a Sen view, where you could see a more compact Sen version of your code.

What do you think, is this goal achievable in NetBeans? What would be the best way to do it? My problem is that if I create a language extension using Schlieman for example, I would loose the important Java features incorporated in the IDE.

Thanks for your insight in advance!

Cheers,

Balazs

Re: Finding the closing brace undent

2009-12-12T05:49:02Z

On 12/12/2009 2:46 AM, rondunn wrote:
> ... and the automatic undent of the closing brace ...
>
> ... finding exactly which module is responsible.
>
>
The following, from a bug report and with a warning, should help you
find it.

Somewhere around JavaFormatSupport and JavaFormatter in java.editor.lib module.
AFAIK this is still using the old Syntax and should be converted to use lexer
tokens and registered as IndentTask. Be warned though, it's ugly and a few
people already declared war to it, but then withdrew.

-ernie

Finding the closing brace undent

2009-12-12T02:46:27Z

I'm a "banner" style coder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style) and the automatic undent of the closing brace irritates me beyond belief.

I'd like to change it, but this is my first dive into such a complex code base and I'm having trouble finding exactly which module is responsible.

Any suggestions?

Ron.

Which NetBeans API can do that?

2009-12-11T12:33:36Z

Ernie Rael wrote:
>
> This is probably one of the simplest things you can do, don't think I've done it though. Should go something like: set up an action in a menu (or wherever); when the action is invoked, use EditorRegistry to get Editor component; from there it is standard swing on the JEditorPane. I'm sure there are examples of this in tutorials.
>

exactly, that's what I thought - I'll adapt NB to my needs over a weekend..

maybe, as you suggest, I should ask the author of 'upper case' for the source. Anyway, thanks for your interest and clues.

Re: current trunk, NB freezes X11

2009-12-11T10:29:22Z

anli wrote:
> ... and, resuming, I have no problems with:
>
> 1. --nosplash option is not used,
> 2. userdir/var/cache/splash.png is deleted before IDE start

So definitely related to recent use of JDK 6 early splash screen. Please add details of your environment and the symptoms to

https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60142

Re: re lease68/contrib

2009-12-11T08:00:18Z

Sam Halliday wrote:
> Could we please have a release68/contrib branch?

https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177437

current trunk, NB freezes X11

2009-12-11T07:03:12Z

.. and, resuming, I have no problems with:

1. --nosplash option is not used,
2. userdir/var/cache/splash.png is deleted before IDE start

Re: NetBeans useful for real swing database apps ?

2009-12-11T03:12:21Z

About your question, probably not so much work will be done about beans-binding framework support in NetBeans since even the framework is stoped for now AFAIK. BTW, you can take a look at genesis [1] framework too. You can do everything you want easily.

It is not integrated in NetBeans but it is really easy API to use and can help you in your application. We use it for an big project and attends perfectly, using NetBeans as our IDE of course. We have plans to integrate this to NetBeans IDE, but not so much was done until now, but since it is an open source project any help is welcome too.

Best regards.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM, d.acosta@... <d.acosta@...> wrote:

We are looking for the same basic functionalities found in JBuilder for years and although many impressive applications have been written using NB, you wont find support for any of them I am afraid. Simple things like drop down menu with values coming from a table are not supported yet in the Beans Binding (JSR 295) and need to be adjusted by hand (you will find the solution here http://netbeans.org/kb/60/java/gui-binding.html at the bottom). Also although master-detail forms can be generated, it is cumbersome to reuse them as a module into another application. Another usual pattern like master-detail-detail has no support in NB. I am looking forward when all this gets supported in NB but I am afraid I have not seen it in the road map. You might be better off using OpenSwing within either NB or Eclipse.

Dionisio

*In this context "support" means I do not need to write most of the code.

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Release 6.8

2009-12-11T02:53:34Z

Hello,

Congratulations!!! The 6.8 Release is great!

I have worked in Modeling module once. I saw so many programmers being
taken from the project that I really thought that the project was in
his way down. But this release proves that
I was wrong. Great work!!

Regards.

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release68/contrib

2009-12-11T02:43:53Z

Could we please have a release68/contrib branch? :-D

current trunk, NB freezes X11

2009-12-10T09:26:55Z

...and, unfortunately, another problem arised - not sure last one is related to former one - the IDE window just instantly closes with the only information available on console:

Code:
The program '<unknown>' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 145239 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

During last two or three hours I have got the error twicely. Never saw this message before.

To workaround first problem (freezing) I have added to startup sript removing splash png and --nosplash option.

Re: What are the classes responsible for the Member structure popup?

2009-12-10T08:35:45Z

Wow. I haven't seen LISP in a long time. Thanks Jesse !

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jesse Glick <jesse.glick@...> wrote:

software visualization wrote:

My working modus operandi here is as follows:
Guess which package might contain the GUI element I'm targeting, Guess that some String which appears in that GUI element is also in the target source file
Hope that String isn't mapped by some String constants file (it almost always is and represents a tool-defeating level of indirection resulting from the desire to decouple) and failing that
Hope that that String happens to have been used by the developer who wrote the class in the name of some variable or other in the target class.

If you use some Unix variant, try e.g.

hg locate -r . -0 \*\*.java \*\*.bundle | xargs -0 grep -lZ -- 'the GUI label' | xargs -0 ls -l

Once your disk cache warms up, this is by far the fastest way to find things, even in a large repo.

If you also use Emacs, add to ~/.emacs:

(defun hg-grep-dired (repo wildcards regexp)
"Find Mercurial-controlled files in DIR with a name like WILDCARDS containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output."
(interactive "DHg-grep (directory): \nsHg-grep (filename wildcard(s), e.g. **.py): \nsHg-grep (grep regexp): ")
(setq repo (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name repo)))
(switch-to-buffer (concat "*Hg Grep " repo "*"))
(fundamental-mode)
(setq buffer-read-only nil)
(erase-buffer)
(setq default-directory repo)
(let ((cmd (format "hg --cwd %s locate -r . -0%s | xargs -0 grep -lZ -- %s | xargs -0 ls -l"
repo
(apply 'concat (mapcar (lambda (s) (concat " " (shell-quote-argument s))) (split-string wildcards)))
(shell-quote-argument regexp))))
(insert " " cmd "\n " repo ":\n")
(call-process-shell-command (concat cmd " | sed -e 's/^/ /g'") nil t))
(dired-mode)
(dired-build-subdir-alist)
(goto-line 2))

NetBeans useful for real swing database apps ?

2009-12-10T08:27:05Z

We are looking for the same basic functionalities found in JBuilder for years and although many impressive applications have been written using NB, you wont find support for any of them I am afraid. Simple things like drop down menu with values coming from a table are not supported yet in the Beans Binding (JSR 295) and need to be adjusted by hand (you will find the solution here http://netbeans.org/kb/60/java/gui-binding.html at the bottom). Also although master-detail forms can be generated, it is cumbersome to reuse them as a module into another application. Another usual pattern like master-detail-detail has no support in NB. I am looking forward when all this gets supported in NB but I am afraid I have not seen it in the road map. You might be better off using OpenSwing within either NB or Eclipse.

Dionisio

*In this context "support" means I do not need to write most of the code.

Re: What are the classes responsible for the Member structure popup?

2009-12-10T08:02:31Z

software visualization wrote:

> My working modus operandi here is as follows:
>
> Guess which package might contain the GUI element I'm targeting,
> Guess that some String which appears in that GUI element is also in the
> target source file
> Hope that String isn't mapped by some String constants file (it almost
> always is and represents a tool-defeating level of indirection resulting
> from the desire to decouple) and failing that
> Hope that that String happens to have been used by the developer who
> wrote the class in the name of some variable or other in the target class.

If you use some Unix variant, try e.g.

hg locate -r . -0 \*\*.java \*\*.bundle | xargs -0 grep -lZ -- 'the GUI label' | xargs -0 ls -l

Once your disk cache warms up, this is by far the fastest way to find things, even in a large repo.

If you also use Emacs, add to ~/.emacs:

(defun hg-grep-dired (repo wildcards regexp)
"Find Mercurial-controlled files in DIR with a name like WILDCARDS containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output."
(interactive "DHg-grep (directory): \nsHg-grep (filename wildcard(s), e.g. **.py): \nsHg-grep (grep regexp): ")
(setq repo (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name repo)))
(switch-to-buffer (concat "*Hg Grep " repo "*"))
(fundamental-mode)
(setq buffer-read-only nil)
(erase-buffer)
(setq default-directory repo)
(let ((cmd (format "hg --cwd %s locate -r . -0%s | xargs -0 grep -lZ -- %s | xargs -0 ls -l"
repo
(apply 'concat (mapcar (lambda (s) (concat " " (shell-quote-argument s))) (split-string wildcards)))
(shell-quote-argument regexp))))
(insert " " cmd "\n " repo ":\n")
(call-process-shell-command (concat cmd " | sed -e 's/^/ /g'") nil t))
(dired-mode)
(dired-build-subdir-alist)
(goto-line 2))

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Now Available for Download!

2009-12-10T06:56:39Z

The NetBeans team is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.8!

Download NetBeans IDE 6.8

NetBeans IDE 6.8 offers best-in-class support for the entire Java EE 6 specification and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 platform. Simplify Java application development with Java EE 6 language features: less XML configuration and more POJO-like development; easily target and deploy to GlassFish v3.

NetBeans IDE continues to be the tool of choice for top development languages; this release includes new features and improved support for PHP 5.3 and the Symfony framework, the latest JavaFX SDK 1.2.1, C/C++, Ruby, Maven and more. Integration with Project Kenai, a collaborative environment for hosting open-source projects, now offers full support for JIRA, as well as improved issue tracker integration. And as always, the NetBeans Platform provides a rock-solid application framework that can save years of development time.

Supporting Java EE 6 improvements first, NetBeans IDE 6.8 boosts developer productivity and lets developers take advantage of today's latest language and platform features.

More information:

NetBeans IDE 6.8 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. There are many community-contributed localization efforts underway to support additional languages. Join the efforts today.

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NetBeans IDE 6.8: Get Tomorrow Today!

javabuilders support for NetBeans

2009-12-10T06:26:02Z

Hello.

I'm sure everyone knows anout javabuilders project (http://code.google.com/p/javabuilders). I'm wondering if it's planning javabuilders support for NetBeans? Or may be it already exists? I think it would be very usefull support.

As support I mean:
1. menus for creating javabuilders forms.
2. impoved YAML-editor.
3. integration with Matisse

Or may be some other way.

Thank you.

current trunk, NB freezes X11

2009-12-10T03:18:17Z

Jaroslav, thanks! - the workaround helps.

Splash problems Re: current trunk, NB freezes X11

2009-12-10T01:10:35Z

Thanks for the report. This is not the first one I heard about. Looks like
there are issues with
-splash:/wrk/usr/netbeans/userdir/var/cache/splash.png

As a workaround, you should be able to start NetBeans with --nosplash in
recent build, or always remove the
/wrk/usr/netbeans/userdir/var/cache/splash.png before each start.

We are investigating the problem and seeking for solution. The currently
considered #1 variant is to disable the splash on Unices.
-jst

Dne středa 09 prosince 2009 09:44:47 anli napsal(a):

> Addition. Log/console output ends up with INFO messages related to ~40
> sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl instances:
>
>
> Code:
> ...
> INFO [org.netbeans.modules.search.BufferedCharSequence]: <init>
> source=[channel = sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl@1430cf27, buffer =
> java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=1050 cap=1050]]; decoder =
> sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Decoder@6bd64482; sink = [buffer[capacity = 1050]] INFO
> [org.netbeans.modules.search.BufferedCharSequence]: <init> source=[channel
> = sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl@2cb06078, buffer =
> java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=3338 cap=3338]]; decoder =
> sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Decoder@6bd64482; sink = [buffer[capacity = 3338]]
> logging isn't enabled
> ./../platform11/lib/nbexec: line 520: 9539 Killed
> "/usr/jdk/bin/java" -Djdk.home="/usr/jdk" -classpath
> "/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/platform11/lib/boot.jar:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netb
> eans/platform11/lib/org-openide-modules.jar:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/plat
> form11/lib/org-openide-util.jar:/usr/jdk/lib/dt.jar:/usr/jdk/lib/tools.jar"
> -Dnetbeans.system_http_proxy="127.0.0.1:3128"
> -Dnetbeans.system_http_non_proxy_hosts=""
> -Dnetbeans.dirs="/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/nb6.8:./../ergonomics2:/wrk/us
> r/netbeans/netbeans/ide12:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/java3:./../xml2:/wrk/u
> sr/netbeans/netbeans/apisupport1:./../webcommon1:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans
> /websvccommon1:./../enterprise6:./../mobility8:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/p
> rofiler3:./../ruby2:./../python1:./../php1:./../visualweb2:./../soa2:./../i
> dentity2:./../uml6:/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/harness:./../cnd3:./../dlight
> 2:./../groovy2:./../extra:./../javafx2:./../javacard1:"
> -Dnetbeans.home="/wrk/usr/netbeans/netbeans/platfor m11"
> '-Dnetbeans.importclass=org.netbeans.upgrade.AutoUpgrade'
> '-Dnetbeans.accept_license_class=org.netbeans.license.AcceptLicense'
> '-Xmx512m' '-client' '-Xss2m' '-Xms32m' '-XX:PermSize=32m'
> '-XX:MaxPermSize=200m' '-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true' '-ea'
> '-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true' '-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true' '-ea'
> '-XX:MaxPermSize=256M' '-Xmx1024M' -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
> -XX:HeapDumpPath="/wrk/usr/netbeans/userdir/var/log/heapdump.hprof"
> -splash:/wrk/usr/netbeans/userdir/var/cache/splash.png org.netbeans.Main
> --userdir "/wrk/usr/netbeans/userdir" "--branding" "nb" "--laf"
> "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel"
>

JAAS support worthwile?

2009-12-09T12:35:54Z

Hi all,

I'm lately playing a little bit with JAAS [1] and I was thinking it
could be a good thing to add some JAAS support within the Platform.

My idea is to be able to authenticate users (on demand) against a JAAS
provider (LDAP/Unix account/Windows account/Active directory) that one
could configure in a module.

Actions would then be enabled iff an appropriate user is in place in the
global context.

As you may see I'm still in brainstorming mode, but I wanted to share
ideas with you all just in case somebody sees a big problem in this
approach.

Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Antonio

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/jaas/tutorials/

What are the classes responsible for the Member structure popup?

2009-12-09T08:24:57Z

I have learned that a Netbeans source class named ClassMembersUI.java is responsible for the java navigator View; what are the classes responsible for the Member structure popup?

Is there a better way to learn what classes are responsible for which GUI popups / windows / actions etc. other than hopefully searching the likely parts of the code base for likely strings?

My working modus operandi here is as follows:

Guess which package might contain the GUI element I'm targeting,

Guess that some String which appears in that GUI element is also in the target source file

Hope that String isn't mapped by some String constants file (it almost always is and represents a tool-defeating level of indirection resulting from the desire to decouple) and failing that

Hope that that String happens to have been used by the developer who wrote the class in the name of some variable or other in the target class.

Guess, Guess, Hope, Hope- lovely, isn't it?