NetBeans Support Weblog: Tips , Tricks, Techniques and more

Sun Supports Software Freedom Day

Join the celebration on Sep 20 2008 

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A new patch for NetBeans IDE 6.1 is now available on the Update Center. The patch includes fixes in modules for BPEL, C/C++, Composite Application, Database, Editing Files, GlassFish, IDE Platform, JSF, Java, Java Debugger, Java Profiler, Mercurial, NetBeans 6.1, NetBeans Plugin Development, Platform, RESTful Web Services, Ruby, SOA, Spring Web MVC, Visual JSF, WSDL, Web Applications, Web Services, XML and Schema. The patch is available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese languages. For more information, see NetBeans 6.1 Patches Info.

The NetBeans community asked for more frequent updates, and we're doing it. The timing and the number of fixes in a patch varies, but we're keeping up the pace with solid updates that benefit the community. If you want to nominate more bugs to be included in future patches, just take a look at the wiki page.

The update is easy to install when the NetBeans IDE is running. Just click on the globe in the status bar or go to Tools -> Plugins -> Updates tab, then follow the installation instructions.

The updates are also available in zipped format on SunSolve.

Sometimes a .java file associated with a .form file in an IDE project gets deleted or lost. In such cases, when the project is opened in the ide, .form file is shown in the navigator. Opening the .form file will not open the GUI Designer but will open the .form file as a text file. This is because the GUI Designer needs both the .java file and the .form file.

Another variant of this problem is when the .java file is not lost but has gone out of sync with the .form file. In such cases any changes made to the .form file will not be reflected in the .java file. 

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A new patch for NetBeans IDE 6.1 is now available on the Update Center. For more information, see NetBeans 6.1 Patches Info.[Read More]

In NetBeans, Tools | Editor | 'Code Templates' tab can be used to create new code templates. This entry details how to import code templates defined in NetBeans 6.0 editor into NetBeans 6.1. Even though the details are specific to these two versions, the concept should apply to any NetBeans version.[Read More]

If 'Firefox' is set as the ide's browser (in Tools | Options | General) , sometimes the ide displays the message 'Cannot execute /usr/bin/firefox check external browser configuration'. But running /usr/bin/firefox from the command line does work correctly.  (Note: /usr/bin/firefox would be different on different systems depending on where firefox is installed and is used here only as an example).

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The recommended method of uninstalling the ide is to run the uninstaller provided with the ide. The instructions are provided in the release notes; for instance the instructions for 6.1 are provided in 6.1 release notes.

If the uninstall program fails for some reason...

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In NetBeans 6.1, the Run panel of project properties dialog for a standard Java application project has a checkbox titled 'Run with Java Web Start'. If this box is checked, then the ide generates all the necessary artificats (jnlp file) with appropriate entries. The ide also supports testing the configuration by running the app using java web start when the app is run from within the ide (by selecting Run command from the project's context menu). But the ide does not support deploying the app to a web or app server; in fact the ide does not generate war files even. The deployment should be done manually.[Read More]

The following are the three (major) directories used by Sun Studio 12 (also referred to as ide in this article).

• Installation Directory. The directory where ide is installed and run from.
• User Directory. The directory where user settings are stored. (Default: ${HOME}/.sunstudio/sunstudio.conf)
  
• Projects directory. The directory where a  project is stored. Each project has its own project directory.

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Sun Studio 12 includes an update Center (Sun Studio Update Center) where SunStudio team places new modules and updates to existing modules that are specific to and tested with Sun Studio 12.

It is possible to download and install modules from the NetBeans 5.5.1 update center in to a Sun Studio 12 installation and the following blog entry details how this can be done. Please note that the modules have not been specifically tested with Studio itself and though , in theory, any NetBeans 5.5.1 module should work with Sun Studio 12, there may be cases where the modules are not compatible and may lead to issues. In such cases, the offending modules will need to be uninstalled.

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How to download the nbm files that are part of a patch?

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A new patch for NetBeans 6.1 is now available on the Update Center.
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How to diagnose/report ide crashes or when the main window disappers?[Read More]

The following are some useful resources to obtain information on NetBeans:[Read More]

The Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference: Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity

This two-day conference is a significant Web 2.0 Conference in the Ruby community and within the software development arena. This annual event brings Ruby and Rails developers, interactive engineers, software developers, startups, IT managers, and technical executives together in San Jose. In the past three years, Ruby has become one of the most talked-about programming languages, and Ruby on Rails has become the framework of choice for many new web applications.

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