Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform Geertjan Wielenga - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform Geertjan Wielenga http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 2

Goals ● Meet the NetBeans Platform ● Understand its problem domain ● Get an overview of the main APIs ● See a demo ● Learn what to do next 3

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 4

NetBeans Platform 5

Nuance Voice-XML 6

Fiorano Studio 7

Nokia: Mobile Network 8

Sketsa SVG Editor 9

VisualVM 10

AIOTrade 11

NetBeans IDE 12

JCae-CAD 13

MC4J JMX Console 14

JFugue Music Notepad 15

StudioSL: Oil Flow 16

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 17

Maybe this is your code: 18

Maybe this is you: 19

This should be you... domain expert knowledge 20

Application “Plumbing” ● Windowing/docking system ● Archictecture ● Lifecycle management ● Persistence ● Data management ● Consistent look & feel ● Distribution/update mechanism 21

Demo 22

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 23

Javadoc 24

Libraries ● Window System API ● Actions API ● Options Window API ● Many Editor APIs ● Visual Library API ● ...and many more 25

Ways to get started ● Javadoc ● Tutorials ● Samples ● Blog entries Tip: Use them outside the NetBeans Platform 26

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 27

In addition to... ● JLabel ● JTextField ● JTextArea ● JTable ● ...etc... 28

TreeTableView 29

Visual Widgets 30

More Visual Widgets 31

More Visual Widgets 32

Drop Down Button Factory 33

Tabbed Pane Factory 34

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to NetBeans Platform ● Resources 35

Project wizards 36

NetBeans Platform 37

Outline view 38

Project wizards 39

File wizards 40

File wizards ● Actions API ● Datasystems API ● Module Install class ● Options Dialog API ● TopComponent class ● Wizard Descriptor class 41

Configuration 42

Editor 43

While developing... ...enhance the IDE 44

Dependencies 45

Dependencies 46

Contextual menus 47

Contextual menus 48

Samples 49

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to the NetBeans Platform ● Resources 50

Demo Outline 1. Start with a simple application. 2. Compare what it is to what the NetBeans Platform has. 3. Create a new plugin project. 4. Move the useful parts of our old application to our new plugin. 5. Run it. 51

Demo 52

Porting Guide http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/60/ nbm-porting-basic.html 53

Agenda ● Goals 1. Generic Desktop Framework 2. Infrastructural Plumbing 3. Collection of Libraries 4. Swing Extensions 5. NetBeans Platform Toolkit ● Demo: Porting to the NetBeans Platform ● Resources 54

Resources http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/books.html 55

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References ● dev@openide.netbeans.org ● users@edu.netbeans.org ● http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/ javadoc/index.html ● http://platform.netbeans.org ● http://wiki.netbeans.org/ NetBeansDeveloperFAQ ● http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan ● http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/ 59

Summary ● Many on the NetBeans Platform ● NetBeans Platform gives plumbing ● Many APIs and libraries to help you ● NetBeans IDE provides tools ● Getting started is easy ● Mail list, tutorials, and training course 60