NetBeans 7.1.2 Released

The NetBeans team has released NetBeans IDE 7.1.2. It includes support for Oracle JDK 7u4 as well as an updated version of Ant (1.8.3). It included additional fixes and tweaks such as :

Upcoming Amazon Beanstalk Support in NetBeans 7.2

I’m excited to review the pending changes to NetBeans 7.2 in the New and Noteworthy page and see that they are now having support for deploying web applications directly from the IDE to the Amazon Beanstalk service.

Running PMD Against NetBeans Sources (Just the Editor)

While learning to write NetBeans plugins I have spent time browsing the entire NetBeans source code base I checked out of Mercurial (main-golden). During part of that I got curious about what kinds of results would show up from various static analysis tools. Out of coincidence I had EasyPMD installed. I went into NetBeans and [...]

Testing out the PMD Recommendation “Avoid Integer Instantiation”

Lately I was running PMD against a large code base and while waiting got to re-reading some of the rulesets. It has actually been several years since I reviewed and tested the static analysis rulesets and wondered if they still applied given more modern hardware, newer versions of the JDK 1.6 and 1.7, and better [...]

Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration – Part 06

This is part 6 in my series of blogs regarding, “Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration”. Part 5 can be found here : http://pronetbeans.com/archives/393/ In part 5 I actually got an API call to the Bamboo REST API working to retrieve the list of projects in a running Bamboo server. The project [...]

Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration – Part 05

This is part 5 in my series of blogs regarding, “Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration”. Part 4 can be found here : http://pronetbeans.com/archives/383/ In part 4 I finished following one of the NetBeans tutorials (http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-options.html) to create an Options panel and write code to actually store common fields and user options. [...]

Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration – Part 04

This is part 4 in my series of blogs regarding, “Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration”. Part 3 can be found here : http://pronetbeans.com/archives/366/ In part 3 I followed one of the NetBeans tutorials (http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-options.html) to create an Options panel to store common fields and user options. In this post I will [...]

Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration – Part 03

This is part 03 in my series of blogs regarding, “Writing a NetBeans Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration”. Part 2 can be found here : http://pronetbeans.com/archives/298/ So far during the development of the Bamboo plugin I have thought of a few properties / config settings that would be nice to have in the NetBeans [...]

What NetBeans Plugins Do You Want?

A user recently commented on one of my blog posts about wanting a specific plugin for NetBeans and how that would help them abandon their other IDE that they must use for their day job because the other IDE supports that tool via a plugin. That got me thinking… what other plugins do people want [...]

NetBeans Plugin For Rally Agile Software Management

Right now I am busy developing a plugin for the Bamboo continuous integration server. However, to test out some code and ideas without messing up my primary plugin project I decided to create a test project with similar base functionality for the Rally site for Agile Software Management. Rally has a decent API that developers [...]