Developing Jython Apps using NetBeans IDE

...is the first community-contributed tutorial on Python support in NetBeans 6.5 IDE, written by Joshua Juneau, NetCAT 6.5 Participant

Here's a brief overview of the tutorial;

Since Netbeans 6.5 has been released, Python and Jython support has been available via the nbPython plugin. There is quite a bit of documentation available for this plugin in various locations. In this article, I will tie together some of the different references for this plugin and I will show you how to generate a small Jython application which uses some Java libraries contained within an external JAR file.

Thanks, Josh!

Monthly Topmost Contributors 2007-08

Yesterday, we posted the statistics of our documentation project over the past 2 years (2007-08). Today, we present to you the list of our project's Monthly Topmost Contributors..

Year 2007

March
Spiros Gezerlis (2 docs)

April
Ahmet N Murati, Antonio Pintus (2 docs)

May
Paulo Cristo (5 docs)

July
Aristides Villarreal Bravo (3 docs)


August
Amit Kumar Saha (3 docs)

September
Amit Kumar Saha (2 docs)

October
Teera Kanokkanjanarat (2 docs)

November
Tonny Kohar (2 docs)

Year 2008

January
Kristian Rink (3 docs)

February
Amit Kumar Saha (2 docs)

March
Berni, Prakan Puvibunsuk (2 docs)

April
Jay Mahadeokar, John Muchow (3 docs)

May
Kunal Modi, Rajath Shanbag (2 docs)

June
Varun Nischal (8 docs)

July
Aristides Villarreal Bravo (3 docs)


August
Diego E. Silva L. (7 docs)

September
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink (5 docs)

October
Aristides Villarreal Bravo, Varun Nischal (2 docs)


November
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink (13 docs)

December
Anton Epple (4 docs)

Summary

Year 2007

June (4 docs) and December (9 docs), there were no significant contributors as authors wrote 1 doc each...

Year 2008

March, April, May and October featured 2 Topmost Contributors, while July, October and December featured members from NetBeans Dream Team.

Thank you!

Dec 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

Now, we shall see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of December, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Two months back, in Nov '08! They contributed Tutorials and Developer FAQs.


Tips & Tricks

Spanish
Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Dec 24
Cambiar el formato de fecha de jXDatePicker

English
Anton Epple

Dec 24
Create your own Platform versions

Dec 24
Fix Navigator Mode in NetBeans Platform Applications

Dec 23
NetBeans on USB Stick

Dec 08
Fix External Web Browser in NetBeans Platform Application

Varun Nischal

Dec 08
Want to use GSF API's?

Kristian Rink

Dec 05
NetBeans for Processing users

Thank you, Anton, Aristides, Kristian and Varun!

Nov 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

Now, we shall see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of November, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Two months back, in Oct '08! They contributed Tutorials and Tips & Tricks.


Tutorials

Spanish
Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Nov 04
Primeros pasos con Documentos NetBeans

German
Kristian Rink

Nov 06
Schnellstart mit der NetBeans-Dokumentation

Developer FAQ

Tom Wheeler

Nov 10
There sure are a lot of modules in the source tree. What are they for?

Thank you, Aristides, Kristian and Tom!

Special: Docs (13) and Newsletters (14, 15, 16)

13, 14, 15, 16... No, I am not counting anything, I am just figuring out the mystery behind this sequence of numbers..

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink has recently scored a hat-trick (Three Consecutive Weeks) of being recognized as Topmost Contributor of the weekly newsletter edition (#14, #15, #16) and that too within the same month. He has mainly focused on contributing Tips and Tricks.

Incredible!

Reason being, he has contributed 13 docs in the month of November, 2008. Coincidentally, we were publishing #14, #15 and #16 editions during that time.

So, here's a list of the docs, he wrote;

Tips and Tricks

Nov 21

Using NetBeans HTTP monitor with Jetty and Maven

Nov 16

Use fix code to correct your code

Nov 06

Getting sources from Maven repositories

Nov 05

NetBeans with newer Subversion client

Nov 04

Debugging Cocoon 2.2 in NetBeans

There are many more contributed in the past as well, contributed in previous 2-3 months! For more info, refer the archives.

Thanks, Hubert!

CVS and Localization

Aristides Villarreal Bravo (NetBeans Dream Team Member) was featured in our Weekly Newsletter Edition #11, as a Topmost Contributor. He contributed 2 articles based on CVS and 1 tutorial based on Localization Plugin. Lets take a look;

Articles

Oct 27 | Usar CVS

Para los que aun no han utilizado el soporte que brinda NetBeans para CVS, presento una guia bien rápida de como utilizarlo.

Read more...

Oct 24 | Como integrar sus archivos en NetBeans CVS

Estas son las intrucciones de como puedes hacer commit de sus archivos a los repositorios de NetBeans CVS utilizando el IDE NetBeans. Si tienes acceso de esritura al servidor NetBeans CVS para translatedfiles, puedes integrar estos archivos libremente pero por favor note que usted necesita validar sus archivos antes de la integración.

Read more...

Tutorial

Oct 20 | Plugins de Localizaciones

NetBeans, se traduce en diversos idiomas, se ha creado un plugin para que puedas tener el IDE en cualquiera de los idiomas soportados.

Read more...

Thanks, Aristides!

Oct 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

Now, we shall see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of October, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Three months back, in Sep '08! They contributed Tutorials and Developer FAQs.


Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Oct 29
Proyecto WebSynergy

Oct 27
Usar CVS

Oct 24
Como integrar sus archivos en NetBeans CVS

Oct 20
Plugins de Localizaciones

Tips and Tricks

Varun Nischal

Oct 28
NetBeans Platform- Configure Clusters And Modules

Oct 28
NetBeans Platform- Editor Windows Reactivated

Oct 20 (How To)
Configure XAMPP with DatabaseExplorer

Oct 08
Open Projects in a Different Way

Thank you, Aristides and Varun!

Sep 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

Blog series continues!

Now, we shall see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of September, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Long time back, in August '08! They were so many, that I had to break the total contributions into three sets and then, blog about them separately;
Tips and Tricks > Tutorials > Developer FAQs


Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Sep 30
Usando Cube°n

Sep 10
Integración de tipos de archivos

Sep 09
Inicio rápido de Plugins con NetBeans

Developer FAQs

Tom Wheeler

Sep 08
Four FAQs on NetBeans Platform

Thank you, Aristides and Tom!

Android Development with NetBeans: updated doc

Hi Folks,

I am happy to report that the Community Docs contribution: http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans has been updated for NetBeans 6.5 and Android SDK 1.0 R1

Best,
Amit

Aug 2008 | NBDT Developer FAQs

Lets take a look at the Developer FAQs contributed by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of August, 2008!
Records Tumbling...
You're in for a surprise, NetBeans Dream Team contributed 13 docs, comprising of tips & Tricks, Tutorials and Developer Faqs. Phew!

Trivia

This month, our program had 23 contributions, back-to-back record breaking months. Also, this was the second time, when we saw many Dream Team members contributed docs, instead of one. Also, we reached an important milestone- 200 docs!

This is the third and final part of the mini-blog series initiated some time back... This entry would feature developer faqs.

Developer FAQs

Tom Wheeler

Aug 07
What are some of the hooks in the application's lifecycle I can plug into?

Aug 07
Can I create a console or server (non-GUI) app with the NetBeans Platform?

Aug 07
Other strategies for authentication and authorization

Thank you, Tom!

Look and Feel, plus Internationalization

Diego E. Silva L. (Diego Silva) was featured in our Weekly Newsletter Edition #10, as a Topmost Contributor. He contributed 2 taT's, one of them based on changing Look and Feel, the other focusing on Internationalization in Visual JSF Web Application. Lets, have a look-

Tips and Tricks

Oct 16 | Internacionalización (i18n) con Visual JSF

Todos sabemos que escribir un texto rígido (hard-code) en nuestras aplicaciones no es una buena práctica. Esto cubre también a los textos de los formularios. Todo debemos pasarlo a variables, y si modificamos el contenido de la variable, toda la aplicación donde usa esa variable, se actualizarán automáticamente. Bueno, eso lo sabemos todo.

Read more...

Oct 17 | Cambiando el Look And Feel de NetBeans

Basado del artículo Changing Look and Feel de Tushar Joshi.
El look and feel predeterminado desde la versión 6.5 del IDE NetBeans se establece de acuerdo al sistema operativo.

Read more...

Thanks, Diego!

Aug 2008 | NBDT tutorials

Lets take a look at the contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of August, 2008!
Records Tumbling...
You're in for a surprise, NetBeans Dream Team contributed 13 docs, comprising of tips & Tricks, Tutorials and Developer Faqs. Phew!

Trivia

This month, our program had 23 contributions, back-to-back record breaking months. Also, this was the second time, when we saw many Dream Team members contributed docs, instead of one. Also, we reached an important milestone- 200 docs!

This is the second part of the mini-blog series initiated last time... This entry would feature tutorials.

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Aug 01
Tutorial Básico de NetBeans para novatos

Aug 05
Cambiando el Estado de un CheckBox

Aug 07
Reportes con JasperReport desde NetBeans

Aug 14
Tutorial Básico de NetBeans para Novatos Parte II (Bases Datos)

Aug 15
Agregando Componentes SwingX a la Paleta

Aug 26
Administrando Freehg desde NetBeans

Thank you, Aristides!

Another Tutorial got Featured

Recent Tutorials

Time to recognize another tutorial, and writer that got featured in NetBeans Knowledge Base. Its been a long time, since any documentation from our program got recognition. To be precise, almost 2 months have gone by.

However, today I am proud to feature myself on this blog as a successful writer, as I wrote the following tutorial 3 months back.

Note - Click on the image to get directed to the contributed documentations!

It feels great to be a part of this amazing project.

Regards,
N, Varun

Aug 2008 | NBDT tips and Tricks

Lets take a look at the contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of August, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
A month back, in July, 2008 by Aristides Villarreal Bravo, Kristian Rink and Wade Chandler.


Records Tumbling...
You're in for a surprise, NetBeans Dream Team contributed 13 docs, comprising of tips & Tricks, Tutorials and Developer Faqs. Phew!

Trivia

This month, our program had 23 contributions, back-to-back record breaking months. Also, this was the second time, when we saw many Dream Team members contributed docs, instead of one. Also, we reached an important milestone- 200 docs!

So, I am dividing this particular blog entry into three parts, as every category has good number of contributions and its worth giving each category and respective authors acknowledgement separately. This entry would cover tips and Tricks.

Tips and Tricks

Varun Nischal

Aug 03
Add/Remove Sort Key from TableDataProvider Woodstock Components

Alex Kotchnev

Aug 06
Freeform Project JUnit Test Results

Tonny Kohar

Aug 19
Netbeans Platform Standalone Module Branding tips

Aug 19
Netbeans Platform Localization as Plugins

Thank you, Alex and Tonny!

Cocoon, Maven with NetBeans

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink was featured in our Weekly Newsletter Edition #8, as a Topmost Contributor. He contributed 3 taT's and 1 Tutorial based on using Cocoon, Maven with NetBeans. Lets, take a look-

Tips and Tricks

Sep 28 | Shutdown Jetty started by Maven in NetBeans

We can start Jetty with the jetty:run command in NetBeans, but because of an issue for Windows users (see Issue 138116) we cannot shutdown Jetty from within NetBeans. We can of course start the Windows TaskManager and kill the process by hand, but wouldn't it be nice of we could just stop Jetty from within NetBeans?

Read more...

Sep 29 | Using JTattoo Look and Feel in NetBeans

NetBeans is a normal Java Swing application. This means we can use different look-and-feel packages available for Swing to change the default look-and-feel. I like the JTattoo look-and-feel package. JTattoo provides several themes we can use.

Read more...

Sep 29 | Using External Maven with Cocoon 2.2 in NetBeans

Working with Cocoon 2.2 is a blessing compared to the previous versions. Cocoon 2.2 is now based on the Spring framework and uses Maven for the build process. Especially the dependency mechanism of Maven makes creating a new Cocoon application a lot easier. And if there is one IDE out there with superb Maven support than it is NetBeans.

Read more...

Tutorial

Sep 29 | Build Cocoon Application using Maven 2

This tutorial is based on the Your first Cocoon application using Maven 2 tutorial, but this time we are going to use NetBeans to build the application!

Read more...

Thanks, Hubert!

Creating a CRUD with JSF and Ajax using NetBeans 6.5 Beta

Paulo Canedo, featured as Topmost Contributor in the Weekly Newsletter #7, and he contributed one tutorial in two forms, English and Portuguese!

Lets have a look at some of the screenshots of the tutorial, before you get going with coding...

Fig 1 | Creating a New Persistence Unit [Portuguese]

Fig 2 | Select packages to JPA and JSF [Portuguese]

Thanks, Paulo!

Four Developer FAQs

Tom Wheeler was featured in our Weekly Newsletter #5, so lets take a quick look at what all he contributed during that time.

How can I suppress Unexpected Exception Dialog?

If your code generates an uncaught exception at runtime, NetBeans will display a dialog box which can show the details of that exception to the user. This is a welcome alternative to simply crashing the application, and provided you have written solid code, your user should never see this dialog anyway.

Read more...

How can I register services into the Lookup using the System Filesystem?

In short, you probably do not want to. The typical way of registering services is via META-INF/services registration: DevFaqLookupDefault. That method is easier to use and offers compatibility with non-platform applications via the Java Extension Mechanism.

Read more...

How can code in one module be notified when other modules are loaded or unloaded?

Let's begin by stating that you probably do not need to know when other modules are loaded or unloaded. The module system takes care of dependency management for you, so your module should never be loaded unless all of its stated dependencies are loaded too.

Read more...

I got a ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError. How can I fix it?

The most likely explanation is that you have a problem in your dependencies. In order for a class in one module to reference a class/interface defined in another module, the following must be true:

1. The class/interface being referenced must be visible to the code using it, according to the normal Java visibility rules. This typically means that the class must be public, since package-private access across modules is impossible.
2. The package containing the class/interface must be exported (marked as providing an API visible to other modules).
3. The module containing the code which uses this class/interface must declare a dependency on the module which provides it.

Read more...

Thanks, Tom!

July 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

After going through docs last year, lets have a look what all the highly skilled NetBeans users have done this year :)

We are going to see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of July, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Long time back, in September 2007 by Wade Chandler. Surprising, well they were getting ready for the major role they played this year, NetBeans Innovator Grants! Ofcourse, you will find them anyhow on the mailing lists.

Comeback Month
Aristides Villarreal Bravo made a comeback, and he was back with a bang! Kristian Rink has been contributing since last year, and he was back as a new NetBeans Dream Team Member. Also, Wade Chandler made a comeback too!

Trivia

This month, our program had 21 contributions, record breaking month. Also, this was the first time, when we saw many Dream Team members contributed docs, instead of one.

Tips and Tricks

Wade Chandler

July 22

Easily Create JavaBean Properties using Code Templates

Kristian Rink

July 30

Auto-build maven2 projects in the correct order

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Jul 03

Tutorial de NetBeans Visual Library en Español

Jul 13

Tutorial de Mercurial

Jul 26

Usando API de persistencia Java con una aplicación Visual Web Pack

Thank you, Aristides, Kristian and Wade!

Localización de Aplicaciones Basadas en Netbeans Platform como Plugins

Luis Enrique Funes, was also featured in our Weekly Newsletter #4, contributed for the first time, and he did it in style by translating Tonny Kohar's recent contribution- NetBeans Platform Localization as Plugins.

Thanks, Luis!

Using the output window in NetBeans

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink was featured in our Weekly Newsletter #4, and we will see the documentation he contributed during that week.

Tips and Tricks

So, how to make use of the Output Window in NetBeans, here are few tips and tricks to make your life easy.

01 | Clear the Output Window

02 | Filter Text


03 | Save the Contents

Thanks, Hubert!