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YouTube Movie of jMonkeyEngine on NetBeans Platform

YouTube movie of a preview of jMonkeyEngine Game Development Environment that is being moved to the NetBeans Platform:Follow the ongoing discussions about this work here.
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Mar 12 2010 02:41 PM
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Bioinformatikzentrum Weihenstephan on the NetBeans Platform

Anton Epple, Aljoscha Rittner, and myself gave a NetBeans Platform Certified Training during the past 1 1/2 days at the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, in Freising, Germany. More specifically, we were at the Bioinformatikzentrum, where the students are
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Mar 11 2010 09:43 PM
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Database Design & Synchronization Software on the NetBeans Platform

DbWrench, which is database design and synchronization software, is clearly an application created on top of the NetBeans Platform: And, someone out there is making money on the NetBeans Platform in this case, since purchasing this application will cost
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Mar 10 2010 02:39 AM
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Hello Again OpenOffice.org API

First step to integrating OpenOffice into the NetBeans Platform (yes, trying that again) is to get it working outside of the NetBeans Platform. I started by downloading NetBeans IDE 6.5, installed the OpenOffice.org API plugin, then moved the OfficeBean
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Mar 08 2010 03:54 PM
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Generate a NetBeans Platform Installer with NetBeans IDE 6.9

If you've been looking through the last few development builds of the upcoming NetBeans IDE 6.9, this'll not be news to you: Yes, you'll be able to use the IDE to generate the installers of your NetBeans Platform applications. After making a selection in
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Mar 05 2010 11:32 PM
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Serbia on the NetBeans Platform?

Looking forward to a trip to Belgrade next week, together with Toni, where the local NetBeans group will be porting Neuroph to the NetBeans Platform. Here's their page: URL: http://www.netbeans-serbia.org/ Note: We'll be delivering a NetBeans Platform
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Mar 04 2010 04:02 PM
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Visual Thesaurus Software on the NetBeans Platform

"Semtinel is a thesaurus analysis software that provides various visualisation and analysis techniques to supervise and enhance the quality of your thesaurus. Thus, the main users are thesaurus developers and developers of applications that use a
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Mar 03 2010 09:06 PM
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Radio Propagation Simulator on the NetBeans Platform

RaPSor is a simulator of radio propagation channels, based on more than 10 years of research. It is used both in research and for educational purpose at the University of Poitiers in France. Go to the RaPSor site on SourceForge and you will learn that
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Mar 02 2010 05:49 PM
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Plasmid Microarray Designer on the NetBeans Platform

PLASMID is a tool for designing plasmid microarrays by using existing mixed microarray data or using virtual microarray data. PLASMID combines clustering methods, probe ranking methods, and stepwise discriminant analysis to aid in the design of
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Mar 02 2010 01:09 AM
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New Cool Flashy NetBeans Platform Video!

After watching the movie above (which is only a few days old), you'll be interested in a look at the related site (http://gephi.org/): Swing and the NetBeans Platform in action, pretty cool. It seems to be in a similar domain to Maltego, the intelligence
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Feb 28 2010 06:55 PM
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Maven CRUD Sample on the NetBeans Platform in NetBeans IDE 6.9

I mentioned the NetBeans Platform CRUD sample will be a standard part of NetBeans IDE 6.9 here on NetBeans Zone recently. It is now also available as a Maven-based sample: You need to install a recent development build of the 6.9 "Web" or "All"
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Feb 25 2010 01:25 PM
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Healthcare on the NetBeans Platform

The next NetBeans Platform application to take a look at is Outlook ES Interface Tester, which is an internal quality assurance application to test healthcare devices at B. Braun, a healthcare provider: Internal testing tools are ideal to create on top
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Feb 23 2010 12:09 AM
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Russian Passport and Visa Generation on the NetBeans Platform

The next NetBeans Platform application to be aware of is ObjectsX. It is used to create Java applications, via the maintenance of catalogues that provide access and data presentation, report generation, and a design environment. One use case of this
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Feb 21 2010 02:37 AM
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Felix & Equinox Rich Client Samples in NetBeans IDE

I mentioned the new cool tools for OSGi developers on DZone recently. But today, in today's development build for NetBeans IDE 6.9, there's even more. Two new samples, demonstrating OSGi integration with NetBeans IDE Upon deployment of these samples, you
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Feb 19 2010 03:15 PM
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Remote EJB Monitoring Application on the NetBeans Platform

The next YANPA is created by Florian Brunner and his colleagues at a Swiss IT organization: "For our customer, ACS Solutions Switzerland, I introduced the NetBeans Platform in a pilot project, where we had to build a new J2EE application client. This
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Feb 18 2010 04:16 PM
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Brand New Learning Environment on the NetBeans Platform

The next interesting NetBeans Platform application to look at was released a few days ago. Kojo is a free application, running on the operating system of your choice, to "enable kids (and curious adults!)" to learn about programming: The Kojo le
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Feb 17 2010 05:05 PM
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Cycling on the NetBeans Platform!

The next YANPA (yet another NetBeans Platform application) is... Saris PowerAgent 7.4. It's a software package that you install on your laptop to measure and analyze your performance when you're doing workouts on an exercise bicycle: Here, for example,
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Feb 17 2010 04:26 AM
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OfficeLAF in Action Again on the NetBeans Platform

Today's YANPA (yet another NetBeans Platform application) was mentioned here last week in my blog... but now has a brand new (and interesting!) interview with its chief software architect and an updated screenshot, showing yet another example of
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Feb 15 2010 02:30 PM
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Possibly Another NetBeans Platform Application? (Part 3)

While YANPAs are everywhere, so are PANPAs ("possibly another NetBeans Platform application") ! The first and second PANPAs turned into YANPAs. I'm less sure about this one, though. Ticom Geomatics could be providers of yet another oil/gas service
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Feb 12 2010 06:33 PM
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Train Station Management on the NetBeans Platform

If you're travelling by train in/around Berne, Switzerland, the NetBeans Platform might be quietly at work, keeping everything running smoothly... because of Sohard AG's train management system on the NetBeans Platform. Why was the NetBeans Platform
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Feb 11 2010 03:17 PM
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Chemical Dictionary Software on the NetBeans Platform

And yet another new NetBeans Platform application is a distribution mechanism on top of the NetBeans Platform for delivering chemical dictionaries. The Chemical Dictionaries are a well established source of information about molecules, includeing
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Feb 10 2010 04:02 PM
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Commercial Data Mining Software on the NetBeans Platform

Yet another NetBeans Platform application comes from South Africa... the Maltego client, a "frontend used to graphically allow you to look at various inter-relationships between data". Maltego itself is an open source intelligence and forensics
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Feb 09 2010 04:43 PM
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Inventory Management Software on the NetBeans Platform

Recently I mentioned the E-Mail Management System that is part of a customer service suite provided by Artificial Solutions in Stockholm Sweden: However, it turns out that that same organization also has inventory management software on the NetBeans
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Feb 08 2010 03:31 PM
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Airport & Passenger Management on the NetBeans Platform

In case you missed it, there's a new interview/article on NetBeans Zone entitled "Airport Operation Management on Oracle and the NetBeans Platform". You'll find out about two NetBeans Platform applications created by AirIT in Orlando, FL, for managing
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Feb 06 2010 06:05 PM
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Swedish Ministry of Defence on the NetBeans Platform

The Swedish Defence Research Agency is a Swedish government agency for defence research that reports to the Ministry of Defence. In this document (or here in Swedish) you can read about its MOSART Research Testbed, which is a framework for integration,
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Feb 05 2010 02:55 PM
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French Ministry of Defence on the NetBeans Platform

ASTRAD, which stands for "architecture and simulation tool for radar analysis and design", is a powerful software platform fitted to radar techniques. It provides users with all the functions needed to model, simulate and design radar systems. Launched
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Feb 04 2010 01:43 PM
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Fingerprint Reader on the NetBeans Platform

I've come across a whole bunch of new (to me, anyway) NetBeans Platform applications in the past few weeks. Mostly commercial applications. While working on interviews with the related developers, I'm also gathering their cool screenshots for inclusion
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Feb 03 2010 08:57 PM
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MyDoggy... Integrated into the NetBeans Platform!!!

MyDoggy is a really cool Java docking framework... and not only because of its name! Based on the recent blog entry about creating your own window system... I integrated MyDoggy into my own window system implementation... so that your application can
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Feb 02 2010 07:55 PM
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Het Lid van Jan Smit

With the recent developments relating to Oracle's acquisition of Sun, I thought that the tone of my blog had become too serious and technically-focused. Sometimes blog entries should be personal and just plain fun, without any business content to speak
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Feb 01 2010 04:47 PM
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Create Your Own Window System on the NetBeans Window System

One big reason for using the NetBeans Platform is its out-of-the-box window system. However, maybe you like the concept of a window system, but now how it is implemented in the NetBeans Platform? Not to worry. You can create your own window system on top
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Jan 31 2010 06:08 PM
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Microchip on the NetBeans Platform

"The NetBeans Platform, used by developers around the world to develop a wide variety of rich clients, continues to garner the attention of the developer community. Microchip is a leading provider of microcontrollers, analog semiconductors, and
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Jan 30 2010 05:21 PM
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E-Mail Management System on the NetBeans Platform

The next commercial YANPA to look at is CSO E-Mail Management System (EMS) by Artificial Solutions in Stockholm, Sweden: "EMS is a contact center application that helps organizations in optimizing their Customer Service. EMS, an application boosted by
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Jan 29 2010 08:31 PM
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Wouldn't it have been cool if Oracle had said...

Wouldn't it have been cool if Oracle had said the following, sometime during all those announcements yesterday: "The NetBeans Platform is very important to a lot of our customers, who are actually building their products on top of the NetBeans Platform.
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Jan 28 2010 07:26 PM
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New! Book! NetBeans! Platform! 6.8!

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Jan 27 2010 04:21 PM
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Swedish Blood Bank Application on Oracle and the NetBeans Platform

Here's a YANPA from Scandinavia. Over the past two years, Databyrån in Stockholm, Sweden, has been building a blood bank application on top of the NetBeans Platform, replacing a legacy application. The client is web-started from a JBoss server,
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Jan 26 2010 03:04 PM
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40 NetBeans Platform Projects on Kenai.com

I wandered around Kenai.com the other day and came across this very interesting tag: http://kenai.com/projects_tags/netbeans-platform Click that link and find yourself in the midst of a great set of NetBeans Platform projects. Sure, some of them are
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Jan 25 2010 05:33 PM
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NetBeans Keyring API

There is a new API in NetBeans 6.9 (Platform and IDE) for storing passwords securely: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-keyring/org/netbeans/api/keyring/Keyring.html If you maintain a module that needs to persist passwords or
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Jan 24 2010 08:42 PM
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List of Upcoming NetBeans Platform Trainings!

The NetBeans Platform Certified Training is scheduled to be delivered in (at least) the following locations in the coming two months: The Norwegian Marine Data Center in Bergen, Norway, has expressed interest in hosting a NetBeans Platform Certified
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Jan 23 2010 10:56 PM
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Using Annotations in Mavenized NetBeans Platform Applications

Via Milos Kleint's blog yesterday I learned about the brand new possibility of using annotations in NetBeans Platform applications driven by Maven. That means that the NetBeans Platform Quick Start can now work under Maven. Here are some things to note,
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Jan 22 2010 07:51 PM
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Maven DocCheck Plugin and NetBeans Platform Applications

Yesterday I answered one unanswered question from the Poznan NetBeans Platform Certified Training. Today, another one. It comes from Grzegorz Buszkiewicz who wants to use Maven DocCheck Plugin for a NetBeans Platform application developed in NetBeans
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Jan 21 2010 10:51 PM