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At my recent Oracle CodeOne talk on Hacking the NetBeans IDE, I promised to publish the screenshots of my code with some comments. I am working to finish debug and testing and hope to push the co...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/hacking-the-netbeans-ide/

NetBeans has been on a very interesting journey over the last two years, moving from the stewardship of Oracle to part of the Apache foundation. This process is still incomplete but we are starti...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/why-i-use-apache-netbeans-to-write-java-code/

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking the NetBeans IDE ”, we have been writing som...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/hacking-the-netbeans-ide-5-overview-for-making-a-combined-local-history/

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking the NetBeans IDE ”, we have been writing som...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/hacking-the-netbeans-ide-4-changing-the-way-netbeans-ide-local-history-works/

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking the NetBeans IDE ”, we have been writing som...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/hacking-the-netbeans-ide-2-dynamically-reload-modules-into-netbeans-ide/

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking the NetBeans IDE ”, we have been writing som...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/hacking-the-netbeans-ide-1-getting-netbeans-up-and-running-from-source/

Apache NetBeans Day UK 2018 is fast approaching – Friday 27th April at the University of Greenwich. If you have not yet registered for the event, the signup page can be found here. If you’re ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/5-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-apache-netbeans-day-uk/

Here at IDRsolutions most of us use NetBeans for Java development. There are loads of plugins you can get, so I thought it would be useful to list a few of my favourites. Some of these are plugi...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/top-5-netbeans-ide-plugins/

As a keen NetBeans user with no affiliation to Oracle or any vested interest (IDRsolutions – my company – pays my salary and I am free to choose whatever tools I want), I wanted to write an...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/is-moving-netbeans-to-apache-good-or-bad-news/

Whilst busy working away on various software at IDR Solutions it occurred to me that it hass been a while since I wrote another cloud article, so I bet you can guess what time it is. Recently I h...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/setup-red-hat-openshift-cloud/

At IDR Solutions I mainly work on the Development of the JPedal Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter. Recently I have also spent a lot of time studying the cloud and thought it might be u...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-use-the-layershift-jelastic-cloud-with-the-netbeans-ide/

At IDR Solutions I mainly work on the Development of the JPedal Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter. Recently I have also spent a lot of time studying the cloud and thought it might be u...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-use-the-oracle-java-cloud-service-on-the-netbeans-ide/

At IDR Solutions this year, we have decided to carry out a few changes to how we currently operate. One of these changes is to change our Ant based projects to Maven based projects. For those of...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/convert-ant-based-netbeans-project-to-a-maven-project/

At IDR Solutions I mainly work on the Development of the JPedal Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter. Recently I have also spent a lot of time studying the cloud and thought it might be u...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-use-the-azure-cloud-on-the-netbeans-ide/

At IDR Solutions I spend the majority of my time using the NetBeans IDE to write and modify the code on our Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter code base, and I thought it would be us...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/book-review-beginning-netbeans-ide/

Here at IDRSolutions we like to use the NetBeans IDE on a day to day basis to work on the development of our JPedal Java PDF Library and JPDF2HTML5 Converter. What is the NetBeans Connector? The ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/5-minutes-netbeans-connector/

At IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time on the Development of the JPedal Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter. Recently I have spent a lot of time studying the cloud and thought it might be...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-set-up-amazon-cloudaws-elastic-beanstalk-on-the-netbeans-ide/

At IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time on the Development of the JPedal Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter. Recently I have spent a lot of time studying the cloud and thought it might be...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-use-the-google-app-engine-with-the-netbeans-ide/

As a developer at IDR Solutions I spend a lot of my time working on adding Javadoc for the JPedal Java PDF Library to make it easier to use. I thought it might be useful to show you how the NetBe...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/writing-better-javadoc-in-netbeans-ide/

As a developer at IDR Solutions I spend a lot of my time working with NetBeans IDE and NetBeans PDF Viewer plugin. I thought it might be useful to show you how to install plugins from NetBeans Pl...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-install-plugins-in-your-netbeans-ide/

As a developer at IDR Solutions I spend a lot of my time working on NetBeans PDF viewer Plugin and I often spend a lot of time on the NetBeans plugin portal. I thought it might be useful to share...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/my-top-6-netbeans-plugins/

At IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time on working on the development of our Java PDF Library. Click here to read why we converted from Ant to Maven. For this tutorial, I will create a simple NetB...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-convert-an-ant-netbeans-plugin-to-a-maven-netbeans-plugin/

At IDR Solutions I spend some of my time working with JPedal (our PDF Viewer which uses both Swing and JavaFX to provide some sophisticated viewing modes). Using my expertise and knowledge I dec...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-create-a-javafx-gui-using-scene-builder-in-netbeans/

At IDR Solutions we are constantly working on adding new functionality and improving our applications. In my previous article “How to write JPEG images in Java” I explained how to use ImageIO...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/accessing-files-from-inside-netbeans/

At IDR Solutions we spend a lot of our time working with Java as our JPedal Java PDF Library, BuildVu PDF to HTML5/SVG converter  and JDeli Java Image Library are written in Java. Our developers...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/the-top-11-free-ide-for-java-coding-development-programming/

This simple article will focus your attention on a very useful feature of NetBeans which is the Start Page. Many of us unnecessarily ignore the start page as when we open the IDE we want quickl...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/exploring-the-start-page-in-netbeans-ide/

As we all know bugs in a software could be difficult to find and fix. Therefore many tools and techniques have been developed in past years that can find bugs automatically. At IDR Solutions we a...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/java-testing-using-findbugs-pmd-netbeans/

Improving your code In 2014, IDRsolutions have been busy adding FindBugs tests which we run on our Java PDF library and PDF to HTML5/SVG converter. So the end of the year seems a good time to s...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/using-findbugs-squash-bugs-java-netbeans-ant/

In my previous article “How to write a Media Player in JavaFX using NetBeans IDE – Part 1 “ I showed you how to to create Media Player where in this post I am going to show you how to add a...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/write-media-player-javafx-using-netbeans-ide-part-2/

At IDR Solutions I have been busy working with JavaFX Viewer and NetBeans IDE, which allows me to explore new features of JavaFX as well as the advantages of using the NetBeans IDE. In this artic...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/write-media-player-javafx-using-netbeans-ide/

At IDR Solutions lately, I have been working a lot with the NetBeans platform has part of my preparation for my talk at JavaOne 2014. Some of the things I have been working on include writing var...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-write-a-webbrowser-plugin-for-the-netbeans-ide/

The Raspberry Pi is not a very powerful device, however as it is so flexible, it is a very useful machine to have to test programs on. However actually programming and building your programs on t...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/using-netbeans-remotely-deploy-projects-raspberry-pi/

At IDRSolutions we are always innovating, one of our latest projects is a JavaFX implementation of our Swing PDF Viewer. Naturally, with all software, there’s bugs to squash and problems to ta...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/use-netbeans-debugger/

After spending more of my time on NetBeans I have come across even more features which i feel could be useful. Some of them especially should be pointed out because if your new or a regular user ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/five-reasons-choose-use-netbeans/

Previously I wrote an article about 5 tools to help you write better java code which helped to improve our code but also our productivity. At IDR Solutions we are always looking at ways to improv...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/java-performance-tuning-tools/

In this article, I will be talking about NetBeans Version Control Feature with Mercurial Support. Version control is one/if not my favourite feature in NetBeans, I honestly do not know how I hav...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/netbeans-version-control-feature-mercurial-support/

One of the advantages of being involved in the NetCat test program is that I get to develop my skills with using the IDE. This involves working through some test cases to check that the software ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/5-java-formatting-options-netbeans-probably-missed/

After my talk at JavaOne2013 I felt there was some really useful material which deserved a wider audience so I have decided to use some of it as the basis of this blog article. At IDR Solutions w...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/lessons-learned-using-glassfish-and-netbeans/

      We have spent a lot of time using NetBeans and written many articles on our blog. This Developer guide lists the best ones in sections to help Developers get the most from the  NetBean...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/developers-guide-to-netbeans/

At IDR Solutions we are always looking at ways to improve our Java PDF Library and our PDF to HTML5 Converter. The best way to do this is to improve the Java Code we write, we do this using some ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/5-tools-to-help-you-write-better-java-code/

In my previous article on web services I mentioned how www.idrsolutions.com received a lot of questions about Java development. In that article I gave a brief overview of what a web service is, ...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/creating-and-deploying-a-java-web-service/

At IDR Solutions we get alot of questions about Java development. One of the most common questions raised in the last few months is about web services and how to access and implement web services...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/web-services-an-introduction/

Code indentation is very important in making your code readable and easy to follow. Recently we have considered how to format our own code as Eclipse, IDEA and Netbeans appear to have different w...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/indenting-your-own-code/

One of my favourite features of NetBeans IDE is the ease with which you can customise the keyboard shortcuts. This feature is accessed from the NetBeans – Preferences window. Firstly, you can c...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/customising-your-keyboard-shortcuts-in-netbeans-ide/

It’s hard to put a label on VisualVM – it has a profiler, but it’s more than that. It also has tools for tracking threads, interacting with garbage collection, and monitoring memory and CPU...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/setting-up-visualvm-in-under-5-minutes/

NetBeans has a nifty little plugin capability allowing you to extend the software with your own plugins. In general you can use the plugin manager to install and remove these, and it works well (...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/where-does-netbeans-install-your-modules/

We are always constantly looking to improve and refine our testing. Currently we are looking into improving our tests for forms in our PDF viewer. For the GUI testing we are using Jemmy, a librar...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-use-jemmy-with-junit-in-netbeans/

I recently came across this message when opening NetBeans after updating my Java version. Cannot locate Java installation in specified jdkhome: C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_191 Do you want to try...

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/netbeans-cannot-locate-java-installation-in-specified-jdkhome/