Some of the new/updated features that I found interesting include:

• Added option to export/import java formatting and indentation for all languages.
• Hint : A new warning that shows places that may cause NullPointException was added:
• Less memory needed to for Maven projects
• Profiler : CPU snapshots can now be compared the same way as memory snapshots.
• JPA : Stand alone jpql editor is added, you can run your jpql from ide directly instead of running your j2se jpa application

You can now drill down to a Plan and from the Actions drop-down select “Export Build Logs”. This will prompt you with a page allowing you to specify a max log file filter (or not). You can then click export and the page will refresh with a download link to the ZIP file.

You can review the plugin here.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.pronetbeans.bamboo.buildlogexport

As such I decided to write the Plan Comments plugin which adds a page to the Plan submenu that allows you to view all comments for all build results on a single page. The comments are sorted in a descending fashion by the build number where the comment was placed. Additionally the user and datetime of the comment is also displayed.

You can review and download the plugin here : https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.pronetbeans.bamboo.plancomments

In my Bamboo Plan Labeller plugin you can add a Task to a Job. In the task you can specify a comma-separated list of labels to add to your plan as part of the build. Additionally you can specify the name of a CSV file and the task will also parse the comma-separated labels in the file and add them as plan labels as well.

Once the build executes you may need to click the Plan name in the breadcrumbs links to refresh the page, but the new labels should show up just fine.

The plugin has been submitted to the Atlassian Marketplace and should eventually be available here once approved (the URL will not work until it is approved) : https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.pronetbeans.bamboo.planlabeller

With the first task “File – Create Zip” you can specify the path and name of the zip file (relative to the current working directory of the build) as well as a ‘File Pattern to Include’ which allows you to use an Ant-style regex pattern.If the “File Pattern to Include” includes files in sub-directories then the sub-directory structure is preserved inside the zip file.

The second Task is the “File – Extract Zip”. You can specify the name and path of a zip file relative to the build’s working directory as well as the “Location to Extract To” relative to the build’s working directory.

The plugin has been submitted to the Atlassian Marketplace and hopefully will be accepted and available for use.

The plugin has been tested on Bamboo 3.4 through 4.1 and was submitted to the Atlassian Marketplace as open source / free for general use.

In Bamboo you can flag specific Bamboo Plans as your “favourite”, thereby tagging it with a gold star and thus enabling it to appear on the “My Bamboo” dashboard. In the new plugin, when you select to mark a Bamboo Plan as your favourite it uses the Delicious.com REST API to automatically add the URL of the Bamboo Plan as a private link into your Delicious.com account. When you deselect the Plan as a favourite plan it removes the private link from your Delicious.com account.

Users can go to the standard Bamboo User Profile and enter their own individual Delicious.com credentials (username, password). The username and password is persisted in the Bamboo database as encrypted values, not plaintext.

Once you have saved your Delicious.com account credentials you can then go to the main dashboard and select the Favourite star next to any plan.

In approx 1-3 seconds you should be able to refresh your Delicious list of  lists on the Delicious.com site and see the new entry, as shown below.

The FAQ on the Delicious API usage states that too many repeated calls to their API may result in throttling or failure rates. If you click too many Favourite star in a row there’s a chance the Delicious link creation will fail, so be warned.

In future enhancements of this plugin I will most likely add a checkbox property on the Delicious Credentials form allowing the user to toggle on and off the ability to make Delicious links public or private. Additionally I am considering auto-tagging the Delicious links representing the Plans by scanning the Plan Build Result Labels for all the build results in the Plan history, gathering all the labels that were created, and using them to generate the tags for the link in Delicious.

I have a little more testing to perform and some code cleanup, but you should expect to see the plugin available in the Atlassian Marketplace soon once I get around to submitting it and if it is approved.

Cheers.

The key part is to add the atlassian SDK BIN directory to your path.

After the plugin project is initially created the Maven project comes up as “unloadable” in the NetBeans Projects window. Also, nodes like “Source Packages” do not show up.

Next, the official instructions here say that once you generate a new project, the Maven POM for that project needs to be modified as specified here : https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Configuring+NetBeans+to+use+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK

It states “In order for NetBeans to pick up the necessary files to recognize this correctly you need to add the following to the project’s pom.xml” like this :

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>atlassian</id>
<name>Atlassian Repository</name>
<url></url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
</repository>
</repositories>

<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>atlassian-public</id>
<url></url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

I thought it was odd that the URL tag would be empty.

And in the properties section of the POM I added this :

<maven.local.repo>C:Atlassianatlassian-plugin-sdk-3.2repository</maven.local.repo>

However when both in NetBeans and via the atlas-mvn on command line I run the install goal to build the project it complains that the URL tag is empty and should not be.

Searching Atlassian’s Answers site, I found another person complaining of this issue : https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/22694/netbeans-complains-repositories-repository-atlassian-url-is-missing

There was no answer, so I just decided to enter an arbitrary value for the URL.

<url>foo</url>

Additionally I also realized when they said to use the Atlassian SDK repository in the <maven.local.repo> property they weren’t kidding. I had pointed NetBeans to use that version of Maven (via Tools > Options > Miscellaneous > Maven. I assumed this would work, but apparently not, thus requiring the <maven.local.repo> property to explicitly define the Atlassian-provided repository.

After making these changes the NetBeans project went from being “unloaded” to looking “normal” in the project window.

I could then clean and build it correctly directly in NetBeans without having to use the atlas-mvn on the command line.

Bamboo
JIRA
Greenhopper
Bonfire
Crowd
Confluence
Gliffy
Fisheye
Crucible
Clover

I have begun to use many of these products and their related plugins both during my day job and through many projects at night. As such I wanted to document my experiences and learnings with them.

Adam

There are some interesting planned features such as the ability to import/export projects a zip files, the Maven repositories are getting their own top-level node in the Services window instead of having a separate Maven Repository window, and a very interesting feature for allowing debugger breakpoints to conditionally enable/disable other breakpoints.

So far, the new debugger feature is most interesting and I’ll be testing it out in daily builds as soon as I get a chance.

See here : http://netbeans.org/community/releases/roadmap.html

Java VisualVM 1.3.2

Java VisualVM based on VisualVM 1.3.2 is included in Java SE 6u30. This release introduces the following features and enhancements:

Issue 428: Show CompositeType field descriptions in tooltips
Tracking (hash)map resize events by Tracer-Collections plugin

For more information, see the VisualVM 1.3.2 release notes : http://visualvm.java.net/relnotes132.html

The following table lists the fixes in Java SE 6u30:

Additional Details can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u30-relnotes-1394870.html

Additional Details can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u29-relnotes-507960.html

Check it out here : http://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/open_source_framework_powers_latest

Bug Fixes

The following table lists the fixes in Java SE 6u27:

The patch includes bug fixes in modules for Java, Maven, C/C++, RCP Platform, HTML editor, Java Profiler GUI Builder, and more.

Detailed list of bugs can be found here : https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard=701patch1&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr

Get the patch info here : http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans7.0PatchesInfo

Bug Fixes

The following table lists the fixes in Java SE 6u25.