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Maven POM inheritance view May 28, 2008
There's a new update of Maven support (version 3.1.2) on NetBeans stable update center since yesterday. You are encouraged to upgrade as it fixes a...
Writing Groovy Maven plugins in NetBeans April 25, 2008
When updating the mojo.codehaus.org svn repository, I noticed there's a new maven plugin in the sandbox with a cool name: "IANAL Maven Plugin" . I've...
NetBeans included in new Mandriva 2008.1 April 18, 2008
I've just finished installing the new Powerpack of Mandriva 2008.1 Spring linux distribution. When I browsed the available software I discovered this little gem. I...
Remote Maven repositories at your fingertips April 08, 2008
It's great to see that many public Maven2 remote repositories are providing the index of the repository now. I've just figured Terracotta.org has used the...
I18N hyperlinking for NetBeans modules March 31, 2008
It's a good practice to have your code internationalized. The coding pattern for doing so in NetBeans modules is following: org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(FindResultsPanel.class, "FindResultsPanel.btnModify.text") Here the FindResultsPanel...
Maven 1.1 support now also for upcoming NetBeans 6.0 November 26, 2007
Eric Hartmann of the Mevenide team announced yesterday that a new version of Maven 1.1 support in NetBeans was just released. This is a maintainance...
Does this make a useful feature? September 05, 2007
Got any idea for a new feature today that sounds cool and useful now but I'm not sure if it's really so, please advise. A...
Comparing projects the Ohloh way August 29, 2007
I've fallen in love in Ohloh. Not only makes it a cool " coding experience" bullet in your resume, but also gives you interesting information...
Spice up NetBeans Ant projects with Maven July 19, 2007
I've been asked many times about using Maven dependency management within NetBeans' ant projects. I've usually just simply pointed to the Maven Ant tasks page....
QQQ: Questionable Quiz Question November 23, 2006
The NetBeans community quit has been announced. Question number 4 caught my eyes. Which big change was made in the project build process from NetBeans...
mevenide testimonials anyone? November 13, 2006
Have you ever used the Maven 2 support for NetBeans IDE? Do you have something to say about it and don't mind being quoted on...
Mevenide2: hotfix release for Nb 5.5 November 02, 2006
Traditionally, a few serious bugs made it into the mevenide release from last week. Also traditionally, a hotfix release ready and up on the update...
One year birthday of Mevenide2 November 01, 2006
Everyone seems to celebrating birthdays nowadays. Netbeans, Eclipse, Mylar, so why not Mevenide? Everyone is counting differently, so I decided to go by first commit....
Hyperlinks in Maven POMs June 26, 2006
The Maven POM file contains a lot of useful information but it's not always ready at hand. While browsing some pom.xml file and copy-pasting the...
Yet another way of working with GWT in Netbeans June 16, 2006
A few days ago, articles on use of GWT within Netbeans appeared on planetnetbeans.org. That reminded me of an article by Robert Cooper on ONJava.com...
What's new Netbeans Maven2 integration? April 21, 2006
After re-reading the official release announcement I figured I forgot to include what's new in this version. Additionally I can go in more detail here...
Don't create, just open March 20, 2006
It's interesting how easy is for a cool feature to become a usability problem. For both Maven1 and Maven2 integrations for Netbeans, the Maven's POM...
Diagrams for Everyone II February 20, 2006
Last week I discovered the netbeans graph library. It seems quite flexible so far. For mevenide2 I managed to create a nice transitive dependencies graph....
Diagrams for everyone February 12, 2006
Even though I'm not a J2ME developer, I've always liked the screenshots of Netbeans Mobile Edition. They have these cool looking diagrams everywhere. Yesterday I've...
Maven2 repository containing Netbeans APIs up and running February 07, 2006
For those creating netbeans modules using Maven (most probably with the maven-nbm-plugin) the biggest problem always was to populate the local repository with Netbeans API...
Mevenide at Javapolis 2005 December 05, 2005
I'll be showing the Maven integration in the Netbeans IDE live at Javapolis 2005 Plugin Bazaar. Both the Maven1 support (now almost feature complete) and...
preview of updates in netbeans maven support. July 31, 2005
A new release of Mevenide for Netbeans is almost out of the door (new version 0.8 to be released in one or two weeks time)....
PopupFactory gotchas April 21, 2005
I've spent some time figuring this out, hopefully will save time of people reading this. PopupFactory creates instances of Popup that one can show/hide in...
Daily routine at Netbeans Prague office April 16, 2005
Check out the epic saga of a lost PET bottle at Prague Sun site. (or was it stolen/abducted ?)...
Maven's Hidden Dragon April 03, 2005
A few days ago, I was blogging about features that are part of Maven and it's javadoc plugin but are not used. Today I figured...
Maven: Unused features April 01, 2005
While Maven provides a lot of features in various plugins, some of them seem not to be used at all. One example I've encountered lately...
Tutorial on creating Netbeans modules with Mevenide March 25, 2005
I've written a short tutorial on creating Netbeans modules (plugins) using Maven and Mevenide. After the initial steps of installing Maven and Mevenide, the only...
Those UI design dilemmas October 15, 2004
Working on mevenide (integration of Maven and popular IDEs) for Netbeans is full of UI decisions that have major influence on the usability of the...