Software development and more
Wondering whether I did not write a new article in this series?
The last weeks I spend my spare time with JSF discussions as well as testing the upcoming NetBeans version (8.1) including a bit of bug hunting.
And I completed the refinement of my book list [1]. This application is available for download to the readers of my book “Web Development with Java and JSF”at [2].
Now, it is time to continue writing both my book as the series “NetBeans and Java EE”.
Stay tuned.
Creating an application with NetBeans seems to be obvious easy. Indeed, it is. If you know, which build system to use.
Continue reading “NetBeans and Java EE: Create Web Application”
In my last blog, I showed the configuration file, which stores the properties of the Task Repositories. And I stated, NetBeans sadly offers the new-editor only. But there is an task repository editor! Continue reading “NetBeans Task Repository Editor”
With NetBeans, you are able to find or report task. To do such, you need to add a repository first. If you choose “Team, Find tasks…” or “Team, Report Tasks…” you may define a new repository. For example, if you want to report tasks to the NetBeans team, you create a repository with the URL “https://netbeans.org/bugzilla”. Continue reading “NetBeans Task Repository”
As most of other modern IDEs, NetBeans supports a rename refactoring. Focus the variable, methods, class etc. you want to rename and press Ctrl+R. Alternatively you may open a context menu and choose “Refactor, Rename”. The rename not only affects your Java code. If you use JSF as Java EE frontend, then the rename affects the JSF page too. But, there are some restrictions and useful features to know. Continue reading “NetBeans and Java EE: Rename”
Today the NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) program started. If you like to help improving this great IDE, please sign up for this program [1]. Need some more information first? Go to the NetCAT page [2].
All you have to do, is use the development version and to report bugs, if you find. And if you like, join a tribe of your interest and perform madditional testing. Be on the bleeding edge!
[1] services.netbeans.org/dashboard/web/netcat_signup.php
[2] wiki.netbeans.org/NetCAT
Starting development with NetBeans and Java EE is really simple. Just install a Java development Kit (JDK) and the NetBeans Java EE edition. The full Java EE stack is available to you, including GlassFish application server.
If you’re using Microsoft Windows as operating system, GlassFish is installed below the “Program Files” folder. In an enterprise environment, the installation is often provided by administrative stuff whereas you might not have write access to this directory. In such situation, how would it be possible to deploy an application to that server? Continue reading “NetBeans and Java EE: Application servers”
NetBeans offers some shortcuts for code navigation. Click the mouse pointer onto a method name (or focus the name by keyboard) and press Alt-F7. This finds all usages of this method.
Focus the usage of any method and press Ctrl-B takes you to the definition of this method.
So far, this is just behavior of a good Java editor. But what about Java EE?
Java EE covers JSF as web frontend technology. Within your webpages you may use methods. Ctrl-B takes you from such a usage within your (X)HTML directly to the Java definition. And Alt-F7 on the Java method finds the usages within your pages.
Enjoy!
NetBeans [1] is a free IDE, which originally focused on Java. Thinking of web development, the developer also needs to deal at least with CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Thinking of the JVM, there are Clojure, Groovy, Scala and others. NetBeans supports them as well, mainly by its powerful plugin system. Beside that, NetBeans offers strong support for languages like C(++) and PHP.
Although NetBeans today supports a couple of different languages, the main focus is to integrate well. Modern applications are commonly web applications, or at least contain a web based user interfaces. The Java Enterprise Edition is a de facto standard to built business and industrial applications (to avoid a holy war: beside Jave EE other software exists to perform theses tasks). NetBeans offers excellent support for this edition. Simply download the NetBeans Java EE edition and you might use the full software stack out of the box.
I want to present some useful small features of NetBeans, tips and tricks for the development with Java EE. I’m going to start a loose series in this blog soon.
Enjoy and stay tuned!
[1] netbeans.org
I inserted a chapter called Intermezzo into my book, which tackles some common aspects of JSF. Unlike the other chapters it is not specific to one of the discussed web applications. Today I described a problem with repetitive structures. A demo for the different loop handlers is available for download. Continue reading “JSF LoopProblem”