mardi mars 22, 2005

Read Blogs Without Leaving NetBeans
While I admit that I'm writing this blog after reading this, the idea isn't quite new.

In his "FeedReader" tutorial (version française ici), Rich Unger explains how to develop an RSS reader on top of the NetBeans platform (using P@'s and friends' Rome Atom/RSS tools). This tutorial focuses on developing such a Rich client application without using the NetBeans IDE to show you don't depend on it at development time or runtime. The required JAR files (the NetBeans Platform) are under 7 Megs.

Using the IDE makes development a little simpler as NetBeans Modules are first-class citizens in the NetBeans IDE, allowing you to "Install/Reload in current IDE", "Create NBM" (the NetBeans Module packaging format), etc...

You can also use the nbm ANT target in the source code provided to generate the NBM and simply install them in NetBeans using the Update Center.



Finally, using a dedicated "Branding" module, the GUI is here internationalized and shown on the right in French. More customization allows you to have your own icons, splash screen, etc... (that's what Java Studio Creator, Java Studio Enterprise, and Sun Studio do).

This is all non-supported code. Use at your own risk and amusement!

( mars 22 2005, 03:26:22 PM CET ) Permalink