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Tinu Awopetu05/21/13
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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #588 - May 21, 2013 )

Project News Develop Mobile Web Applications On Your Android Device in NetBeans IDE There's an exciting new feature coming to NetBeans IDE 7.4: Support for JavaScript debugging and visual CSS editing on Android devices. But no need to wait till GA release,...

Sean Phillips05/17/13
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JavaFX Accordion Slide Out Menu for the NetBeans Platform

This article is a tutorial on creating a slide out collapsible application menu provided by JavaFX components. These components can be "skinned" using CSS styles and as such the menu can be crafted differently for different applications. This is valuable for adapting NetBeans Platform applications to work nicely with a Heads Up Display or Kiosk view that typically run on touchscreen computers where screen space is a premium.

Tinu Awopetu05/14/13
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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #587 - May 13, 2013 )

Project News NetBeans IDE 7.3: Power Tools for HTML5 & JavaScript From NetBeans IDE 7.3 onwards, released earlier this year, new features have been introduced to enhance the development experience for HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 Web applications. In this...

Tinu Awopetu05/07/13
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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #586 - May 7, 2013 )

Project News Jelastic Announces Integration with NetBeans IDE Jelastic Inc., the creators of a cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications, has announced the integration of the Jelastic platform with NetBeans IDE. Full instructions are provided for...

Tinu Awopetu05/03/13
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JayDay 2013: Bigger and More Java

JayDay 2013 (July 1, Munich) is a bigger affair this year, with more rock star speakers and multiple tracks tackling a variety of Java topics. In this interview, organizer Anton Epple previews the conference agenda and shares a few tips about what it takes to run an international developer event.

Tinu Awopetu05/03/13
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NetBeans Podcast #64: HTML5 Support in NetBeans IDE

Podcast Guests: NetBeans senior engineer David Konecny on HTML5 support in NetBeans 7.3; Tushar Joshi and Easy Flow Chart, an open source project using NetBeans' HTML5 support; and a new NetBeans IDE ebook by author Atul Palandurkar.

Jonathan Lermitage05/01/13
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JaCoCoverage: Java 7 Code Coverage for NetBeans

NetBeans had a (great) plugin for Java 6 unit tests code coverage, for Ant based Java SE projects. This plugin was based on the EMMA library, which is not compatible with Java7.

Sean Phillips04/29/13
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How to Integrate JavaFX into a NetBeans Platform Wizard (Part 2)

Extend the wizard from the previous tutorial to have a second page in the wizard dialog. We want this second page to use information from the first page which will come from one of our JavaFX controls and ideally interact with a JavaFX component on the second page.

Tinu Awopetu04/29/13
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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #585 - Apr 29, 2013 )

Project News HTML5 Development in Java EE and PHP Projects The NetBeans Web Client Team discusses, in their blog, new tools being developed for working with HTML5 in Java EE and PHP projects. Plugin: PHP WordPress Blog/CMS Get started with WordPress in...

Geertjan Wielenga04/28/13
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How to Integrate JavaFX into a NetBeans Platform Explorer View

In the NetBeans Platform, "explorer view" has a very specific meaning. It is described in some detail here. In summary, an explorer view displays one or more Nodes. (And a Node is a visualization of an Object.) Since all explorer views work with Nodes,...

Sean Phillips04/26/13
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How to Integrate JavaFX into a NetBeans Platform Wizard (Part 1)

When working within the NetBeans Platform the default Swing panels can be replaced by your JavaFX forms. The following tutorial explains how a developer can take a JavaFX GUI form and FXML developed using Scene Builder and replace a NetBeans Platform Wizard visual panel with minimal effort. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.

Geertjan Wielenga04/26/13
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How to Integrate JavaFX into the NetBeans Platform Toolbar

Next up, now that we know how to replace the NetBeans Platform menubar with a new one from JavaFX (see yesterday's article on this theme), let's see how to achieve the same for the toolbar:

Geertjan Wielenga04/24/13
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How to Integrate JavaFX into the NetBeans Platform Menubar

Let's say you want to replace the NetBeans Platform menubar, written in Swing, with one written in JavaFX. Why? For fun. Also, CSS stylesheet support in JavaFX is handy for redesigning the menubar's appearance: The coloring in the menubar above,...

Tinu Awopetu04/23/13
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NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #584 - Apr 22, 2013 )

Project News NetBeans IDE Development Builds Now Require JDK 7 As of March 25, the NetBeans IDE development builds require JDK 7. The change will help the NetBeans team in their work on JDK 8 tooling and on performance improvements for the IDE. Read more...

Sean Phillips04/21/13
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How to Embed a JavaFX Chart in a Visual Library Scene

JavaFX really shines as an enhancer technology for existing Java/Swing applications and code bases. A Java developer who understands Swing but is just starting to explore JavaFX can easily upgrade his or her software on a component by component basis.