By James, on September 20th, 2009%
Most of the applications we use on daily basis are pluggable. Popular applications like Firefox, Eclipse, NetBeans, JEdit, Wordpress, Hudson are all pluggable. In fact, pluggability has played a major part in the success of most of these applications. Why not make the Java applications we develop pluggable as well? Yes, we get pluggability out of the box, if our applications are based on a rich client platform like NetBeans or Eclipse. But for some reasons if you decide not to use those platforms, it doesn’t mean that they should not be pluggable. In this article, we will learn how to write a simple pluggable application that will load it’s plugins dynamically.
The API
First, let us define a plugin interface that should be implemented by all the plugins of our application. We are going to keep it very simple. Create a project called “plugin-api” in your favorite IDE and create the interface “ApplicationPlugin”.
package com.pluggableapp.plugins.api;
public interface ApplicationPlugin
{
String getName();
void init();
}
Continue reading Developing A Simple Pluggable Java Application
By James, on August 26th, 2009%
Recently I read the article “Free UML tools” which explains about the various free UML tools available. That article made me think “What UML tool do people actually use?”. Over the years, I have used tools like Microsoft Visio, ArgoUML, NetBeans UML, StarUML and finally settled with JUDE. How about you? What UML tools do you . . . → Read More: What UML Tools do you use?
By James, on August 25th, 2009%
Subversion is a very popular version control system. As a result, subversion has a wide array of client tools which makes life difficult for us, the users. So we wanted to know what our readers actually use and here is the summary of their opinions.
Not surprisingly, close to 50% of them use the popular TortoiseSVN as . . . → Read More: Readers choice: Most popular Subversion clients
By James, on July 24th, 2009%
Introduction
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day.
- Martin Fowler
Hudson is a popular open-source continuous integration server used by many organizations like Redhat JBoss. Though there are many well known and well established open-source projects like CruiseControl, Continnum and some commercial offerings like Bamboo, what makes Hudson special is it’s powerful yet easy to use web interface, it’s simplicity and it’s extensible architecture with many plugins.
Continue reading Hudson CI Server – A quick start guide
By James, on July 7th, 2009%
NetBeans 5.0 – Simplified Swing development
NetBeans 5.5 – Simplified Java EE development
NetBeans 6.0 – Made the NetBeans editor and other core infrastructure on par with competitors
NetBeans 6.5 – Looked beyond Java development by supporting languages like PHP
NetBeans 7.0 6.7 – Tries to make collaborative team development seamless.
I was quick to download the “All Java” pack of NetBeans IDE for linux. Installation, as usual was pretty smooth on my Ubuntu 9.04. The installation didn’t give me much surprises and it was very much similar to version 6.5. I customized the installer to install Glassfish v2.1 and Tomcat 6.0.18 for me.
Continue reading NetBeans 6.7 – A quick glance
By James, on February 4th, 2009%
Now that you have upgraded from Windows to Ubuntu (like me  ), let’s see how to setup NetBeans quickly on your new Ubuntu machine without wasting much time.
Continue reading Getting NetBeans ready for work on Ubuntu 8.10
By James, on December 13th, 2008%
I recently started using Ubuntu 8.10 at my workplace as well. Till then, I have been using Ubuntu only at home. For me, Ubuntu@Work was very different from Ubuntu@Home. I mostly surf, blog, listen to music and play some games at home. But Ubuntu@Work was a completely different scenario.
Since I’m new to this linux stuff, it took me some time to configure things like static ip address, host names etc. But once everything was setup, things started moving quickly. I initially had doubt in my minds about the font rendering of NetBeans (or any swing app for that matter) under linux. I even wrote an post showing my frustration with NetBeans font rendering when compared to Eclipse. But with jdk.1.6.10, font rendering is smooth and NetBeans works like a champ! You can see some samples here:
Continue reading Ubuntu 8.10 – A Productive Java Development Environment
By James, on November 30th, 2008%
NetBeans is my favourite IDE for java development. I’ve been using NetBeans from version 4.1 onwards and I can’t believe that it has progressed and transformed itself so well. Right from version 5.0 onwards, NetBeans has been making amazing strides in terms of developer adoption. And the recent 6.5 release is really fantastic. It’s fast, it’s responsive and got many new cool features. Though I use NetBeans at office which runs on Windows XP, I haven’t tried that yet on my Ubuntu-8.10. So, I thought it’s time to give it a go.
Installing NetBeans in Ubuntu in very easy. The only pre-requisite for installation is to have a suitable JDK on your machine. That too is not a problem if you download the NetBeans + JDK bundle. But I thought of installing them separately. By default, Ubuntu-8.10 doesn’t come with JDK pre-installed, so you have to install it manually. Installing JDK in Ubuntu is just a matter of issuing a “one line” command. Just open your terminal and type:
“sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk”
or, if you are a person who prefer GUI more than command line, open your Synaptic Package Manager and look for “sun-java6-jdk” and install it. What surprised me though was the availability of the latest JDK, i.e, “JDK 6 Update 10″. Installing JDK had never been so easy.
Continue reading And now NetBeans 6.5 is there in my Ubuntu-8.10
By James, on April 7th, 2008%
Introduction:
Subversion is arguably the most popular version control system as of now. No wonder NetBeans has very good support for Subversion. I personally feel that a java developer must be familiar with both these tools. This article shall help you to get started with both these tools.
Objectives:
- To create a simple java project in NetBeans.
- To import the java project into the subversion repository.
- To commit the changes made in a java source file.
- To view the revision history of a java source file which was changed.
- To rollback to the previous revision of the java source file.
Continue reading Subversion and NetBeans – A quick start guide
By James, on March 8th, 2008%
NetBeans team just released their 6.1 Beta release and I was itching my hands to try it out. I’ve been using NetBeans from 5.0 release onwards (Matisse converted me from Intellij IDEA to NetBeans). I can see the progress NetBeans is making at an astonishing rate. (That too as an open source project)
Though I like and use NetBeans 6.0 a lot, I found it to be very slow when compared to Eclipse 3.3. I have explained about it here.
Especially I felt that code completion needed improvement. Eclipse beats NetBeans hands down in this area for sure.
So when the 6.1 Beta release promised me that “improved performance” is the theme of the release, I thought of trying it out.
Continue reading NetBeans 6.1 stands up to its promise
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