Masoud Kalali's Blog

I have been using NetBeans for a long time now; Because it is easy to use, easy to understand and explain to others, it has impressive Java EE support, etc. I was working on Java EE projects or projects  involving NetBeans RCP applications with 40-50 modules (1m loc or so) which are considered small applications. [...]

NetBeans 6.8 released coordinated with GlassFish v3 today. NetBeans 6.8 can be considered a fine step ahead of NetBeans because Sun is officially supporting the NetBeans RCP platform as a product from now on. NetBeans 6.8 features are as follow: Java Enterprise Edition 6 support Web Projects with JavaServer Faces 2.0 (Facelets) JavaFX 1.2.1 support [...]

I was involved with development of a RCP application based on NetBeans platform and now I find few minutes to share some of the experience with you. All standard coding and best practices are applicable here. Use project management systems like Trac or any project management system that you know. Never start a project without [...]

Well, NetBeans RCP is a flagship product of NetBeans Project which the famous NetBeans IDE is based on it. To reuse an already opened TopComponent in an RCP application we can use a code similar to following listing, Assume that the TopComponent name is ContractorInfoTopComponent and we want to reuse the already opened tab instead [...]

NetBeans 6.7 is available for download. NetBeans team decided to release more often to provide developers with new features sooner than later. This new release model ensure that as soon as a set of certain features are developed and stabilized can be accessed by developers to develop faster, easier and with more confidence over availability [...]

NetBeans IDE seen a lot of changes during past three years, the evolutionary changes starts with NetBeans 5 and later on continued to NetBeans 5.5 when Sun Microsystems released more of its code base under the open source license. The main reason behind the feature rich releases can be seen behind the unifiyng of Sun [...]