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Thursday April 06, 2006

NetBeans Module Development Environment U1 released

Good news for everyone who develops plugin and applications for NetBeans. Module Development Environment 5.0 Update 1 is available on stable update center. The most important new features and changes are listed bellow:

• New Sample App. There is a new application sample (Paint App). It would be made available as a new project template and a tutorial in Update 1.
• Target JDK for building NBM project. The 5.0 support always used the JDK version that IDE was run on for for building NBM projects. There was a frequently repeated requirement to allow the user to select the target JDK. This is now supported in Update 1.
• Allow NBM Project Rename/Move/Copy/Delete. None of these actions was supported in NB 5.0. Providing them in Update 1 makes NBM projects more consistent with other project types supported by the IDE. Copy for Module Suite Project has not been implemented yet.
• Libraries node for NBM project. Again, this is being added to make NBM projects consistent with other project types.
• New File Templates
  • Java Help. Creates all files needed for building a JavaHelp help set.
  • Module Installer. Creates an installer class for a module.
  • Update Center. Links to a published update center descriptor.
  • Option Panel. Adds to the Options dialog.
  • Create NBMs action for module suites. It's now possible to generate .nbm files for all module projects in a suite. In addition, an updates.xml file is created to allow for easy setup of a custom update center.
The change log is available here

I have a tip. Options Panel Wizard and Matisse Form Editor is good combination:



For Example it can look in Options dialog like this :



Posted by xzajo ( Apr 06 2006, 12:02:08 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [12]

Thursday March 30, 2006

LaTeX Editor for NetBeans 5.0 is comming...

Jan Lahoda, my colleague, shown me this week new version of LaTeX Editor for NetBeans 5.0. I am really impressed. I've never seen such good LaTeX support. When I was on university I was using a poor emacs plugin for LaTeX. But with the new Jan's everything is much easier and faster.

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

The main features of the LaTex for NetBeans 5.0 plugin:

• Code completion with documentation
• Code folding
• Error stripe
• Realtime syntax checking in editor
• Spellchecker
• Navigator
• LaTex project type
• Palette with symbols and predefined templates
• Refactoring - find usage and renaming labels (cross references)

Look at the screenshot:

Are you also impressed? I'll let know when the release is available.

Wednesday March 29, 2006

AndroMDA - generation code from UML (Powered by MDR)

In short, AndroMDA is an open source MDA framework - it takes any number of models (usually UML models stored in XMI produced from case-tools) combined with any number of andromda plugins (cartridge and translation-libraries) and produces any number of custom components. You can generate components for any language you want, Java, .Net, HTML, PHP, anything really, you just write (or customize existing) plugins to support it and you're good to go. The core of AndroMDA uses NetBeans MDR storage.

For example from UML class diagram shown bellow can be generated code for different technologies (Spring, Hibernate, EJB, Webservices, XML).

And for Activity UML diagram allows to generate code for Struts, JSP, Servlets.