Using NetBeans IDEfor

Desktop Development

Geertjan Wielengahttp://blogs.sun.com/geertjan

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Agenda

● Goals

● Design: Matisse GUI Builder

● Medium Applications: JSR-296 Tooling

● Large Applications: NetBeans Platform

● Conclusion

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● Show that NetBeans IDE is the one-stop shop for all Swing desktop needs

● Ready out of the box, for applications of all sizes:

● Demo 1: Matisse GUI Builder

● Demo 2: Tooling for JSR-296

● Demo 3: NetBeans Platform

Goals

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● Goals

● Design: Matisse GUI Builder

● Medium Applications: JSR-296 Tooling

● Large Applications: NetBeans Platform

● Conclusion

Agenda

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GroupLayout

● Part of JDK 6

● Principles:● Independent dimensions

● Hierarchical groups

● Designed to suit GUI Builder needs

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“Matisse” GUI Builder

● Professional quality layout easily done

● Intuitive drag & drop interface

● Guidelines

● Resize, align, optimal spacing

● Automatically resizes when localized

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Demo

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● Goals

● Design: Matisse GUI Builder

● Medium Applications: JSR-296 Tooling

● Large Applications: NetBeans Platform

● Conclusion

Agenda

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public static void main(String args[]) {

// good luck!

}

Motivation for JSR-296

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● Lifecycle support

● Resources

● Actions

● Tasks

● Session state

JSR-296 Features

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import javax.swing.*; public class HelloWorldSwing {

public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("HelloWorldSwing"); final JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World"); frame.getContentPane().add(label); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } }

Lifecycle Support(On your own)

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public class MyApp extends SingleFrameApplication {

@Override protected void startup() {JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World");show(label);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {Application.launch(MyApp.class, args);

}

}

Lifecycle Support(With JSR-296)

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● Show all the other JSR-296 features in action.

● Integrate Flickr into a Swing desktop application based on JSR-296 using NetBeans tooling.

Demo of JSR-296

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● Goals

● Design: Matisse GUI Builder

● Medium Applications: JSR-296 Tooling

● Large Applications: NetBeans Platform

● Conclusion

Agenda

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1. Generic Desktop Framework

2.Infrastructural Plumbing

3.Collection of Libraries

4.NetBeans Platform Toolkit

NetBeans PlatformWhat is it?

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Agenda● Goals

1. Generic Desktop Framework

2. Infrastructural Plumbing

3. Collection of Libraries

4. NetBeans Platform Toolkit

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NetBeans Platform

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Nuance Voice-XML

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Fiorano Studio

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Nokia: Mobile Network

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Sketsa SVG Editor

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VisualVM

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AIOTrade

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NetBeans IDE

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JCae-CAD

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MC4J JMX Console

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JFugue Music Notepad

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StudioSL: Oil Flow

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Agenda● Goals

1. Generic Desktop Framework

2. Infrastructural Plumbing

3. Collection of Libraries

4. NetBeans Platform Toolkit

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Maybe this is your code:

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Maybe this is you:

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This should be you...

domain expertknowledge

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Application “Plumbing”

● Windowing/docking system

● Archictecture

● Lifecycle management

● Persistence

● Data management

● Consistent look & feel

● Distribution/update mechanism

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Demo

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Agenda● Goals

1. Generic Desktop Framework

2. Infrastructural Plumbing

3. Collection of Libraries

4. NetBeans Platform Toolkit

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Javadoc

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Libraries

● Window System API

● Actions API

● Options Window API

● Many Editor APIs

● Visual Library API

● ...and many more

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Ways to get started

● Javadoc

● Tutorials

● Samples

● Blog entries

Tip: Use them outside the NetBeans Platform

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Agenda● Goals

1. Generic Desktop Framework

2. Infrastructural Plumbing

3. Collection of Libraries

4. NetBeans Platform Toolkit

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Project wizards

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NetBeans Platform

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Outline view

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Project wizards

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File wizards

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File wizards

● Actions API

● Datasystems API

● Module Install class

● Options Dialog API

● TopComponent class

● Wizard Descriptor class

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Configuration

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Editor

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While developing...

...enhance the IDE

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Dependencies

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Dependencies

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Contextual menus

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Contextual menus

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Samples

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Demo: Porting

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Porting 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.

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Porting Guide

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

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● Goals

● Design: Matisse GUI Builder

● Medium Applications: JSR-296 Tooling

● Large Applications: NetBeans Platform

● Conclusion

Agenda

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● http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tpavek

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Resources

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● Ready out of the box, for applications of all sizes:

● Demo 1: Matisse GUI Builder

● Demo 2: Tooling for JSR-296

● Demo 3: NetBeans Platform

● Showed that NetBeans IDE is the one-stop shop for all Swing desktop needs

Conclusion