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Apache NetBeans 11.3-beta2 is Ready for Testing!

Eric Barboni, our Release Manager of 11.3, produced Apache NetBeans 11.3-beta2 build the other day. It is available for testing!

Those using the Snap distribution and would like to give it a try:

sudo snap refresh --channel=edge netbeans

Posted at 07:05PM Feb 03, 2020 by lkishalmi in Technology  |  Comments [2]  | 

NetBeans 11.3 is Shaping up Nicely

One month has passed since NetBeans 11.2 had been released. There are 82 new PR-s made it to the master branch so far. We usually have a, not necessary intentional, "theme" for each release. I'd say the theme is for 11.3 is: "Remove the Rust".

Our code and libraries spent long time in the transit. Many of our modules were still compiling against Java 1.6 and/or used ancient versions of third party libraries. 11.3 improved a lot on this front and there are still many PR are in the queue to carry that on.
Without trying to be complete, here is a small list of changes what's coming:

- Jgit Library Update
- ASM, PostgreSQL, JUnit5 and Other Library Updates.
- PHP Fixes
- HTML Lexer Stability Improvements
- JSF 2.3 Support
- Gradle Tooling 6.0
- Several Cleanups, Remove Compile Warnings

On the UI Side:
- Return of Dark Metal and Dark Nimbus Look and Feel
- Experimental support for Flatlaf Look and Feel

On Gradle Side:
- Test Output is Channeled Back to the IDE
- Added Project Reload Action
- Elephant Icons Finally Replace the old Ones

Posted at 10:51PM Nov 30, 2019 by lkishalmi in General  |   | 

Master Your Scripting Skills with the New Tutorial!

Enhanced scripting tutorial has just become part of Apache NetBeans documentation. It contains various examples showing how to communicate from Java with JavaScript, Python and other languages. The following topics are covered:

• Setup
• Get started
• Guest language "Hello World!"
• It's a polyglot world
• Add a language
• Hello World in Python and JavaScript
• Cast Array to List
• Call guest language functions from Java
• Define and call a JavaScript function
• Define and call a Python function
• Call an existing R function
• Call multiple guest language functions with shared state from Java
• Access guest language classes from Java
• Access a JavaScript class
• Access guest language data structures from Java
• Access a JavaScript Array
• Access a JavaScript JSON structure
• View any Object as Map
• Access Java from guest languages
• Access Java fields and methods from JavaScript
• Access Java constructors and static methods from JavaScript

While the primary use-case for this enhanced scripting API is to simplify usage of scripting languages in NetBeans based applications, the API itself is standalone and can be used outside of NetBeans in any project. We are working on making it available in the Maven central repository.

Read more in the online tutorial.

Posted at 01:20PM Jan 24, 2019 by jtulach in Technology  |  Comments [2]  | 

Apache NetBeans and Java EE Productivity in Burkina Faso

Last Saturday (June 30, 2018) I was invited to COFAN (Conférence au Faso sur le Numérique) to present tips for building enterprise Java applications. COFAN is a conference divided into multiple sessions on a variety of technologies. It was started last year and the second tour has been taking place since May and it is sponsored by the government of Burkina Faso.

I was given the opportunity to talk about enterprise Java in general and to show how NetBeans can be a great tool to develop strong and professional Java enterprise applications.

A room filled with an attentive audience was very enthusiastic. They were also satisfied by the answers to their questions, while some decided to continue using NetBeans, with others promising to start working with it for the first time!

Pictures of the event are below:

Posted at 09:13PM Jul 03, 2018 by Constantin Drabo in Technology  |   |