Thursday April 06, 2006 Xzajo's Weblog
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 :
