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Brian Leonard - Into the Digital Cave

Oct 6, 9:51 AM

One of the cooler parts of my job is getting to visit universities around the world. Last week brought us to São Paulo, Brazil for TechDays . On Thursday, Roman Strobl, Vijay Tatkar and I headed over ...

geertjan - Serializing Marilyn Monroe

Oct 5, 9:17 AM

I made a lot of progress with node serialization . Now, when I start up my application, I see ALL of the following selected: The above are selected, without me doing anything at start up, because ...

geertjan - "CTL_MainWindow_Title": Customizing the Title Bar

Oct 4, 11:56 AM

There are many ways to customize a NetBeans Platform application's title in the title bar. Below, I try to list all of them, together with all related references. One typical added requirement is ...

geertjan - Serializing Nodes

Oct 3, 9:23 AM

By default, the NetBeans window system restores the application's customized layout, i.e., window position and size, when the application restarts (assuming the user directory hasn't been deleted). ...

Gregg Sporar - Sun Tech Days Sao Paulo

Oct 2, 12:04 PM

Sun Tech Days Sao Paulo was crowded with folks who wanted to know more about Java , MySQL , OpenSolaris , and several other technologies.  We had pretty good attendance at the OpenSolaris sessions ...

geertjan - Opening Multiple TopComponents For One File

Oct 2, 12:00 AM

In Convert your TopComponent to a MultiViewElement I explained, in the first part of that blog entry, how to open a file represented by a node in an explorer view into a TopComponent (instead of into ...

alta - Winners Are Announced!

Oct 1, 12:23 AM

Sun Announces Winners of OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Some of our winners were honored in person at the keynote address at Sun Tech Days in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 29 September. One had this ...

geertjan - Spring RCP Application Initialized From Griffon

Sep 29, 1:01 PM

To get them to co-exist, somehow Spring RCP's application class should replace the Griffon application class, or the other way round. Maybe I need to create an ApplicationBuilder for Spring RCP? ...

geertjan - Spring's MethodInvokingFactoryBean & Griffon

Sep 28, 2:57 PM

Here's my Spring application context: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ...

Gregg Sporar - Software Freedom Day + 7

Sep 27, 6:01 PM

I seem to have a knack for getting involved with Software Freedom Day (SFD) events that are not actually held on Software Freedom Day itself.  The day before SFD I was at an event in my hometown of ...

geertjan - Case Study: Customizing the NetBeans Window System

Sep 27, 10:50 AM

The NetBeans window system can be used "as is" in, I guess, 90% of cases. However, it's that final 10% that's always the problem! That's when the NetBeans window system becomes, potentially, a little ...

geertjan - Two Panels on One Griffon Form

Sep 26, 6:13 PM

On the Griffon mail list I learned about the following approach to putting two (or more) panels on a frame. First, here's the view: import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder import ...

geertjan - From ServiceLoader to Lookup for Griffon

Sep 26, 1:18 PM

In An Approach to Pluggable Griffon Applications , I discussed how the JDK 6 ServiceLoader class is useful in the context of Griffon. In effect, it provides Griffon with plugins. However, the ...

geertjan - Injecting a Splash Screen via Spring into Griffon

Sep 26, 8:56 AM

Assuming the Spring RCP JARs are in the Griffon application's 'lib' folder, I believe it should be possible to put this into 'Startup.groovy': import ...

techdogg - New Ways to Thinking About Sun Cluster

Sep 25, 10:24 AM

Support for RAC on zones has just today been announced for Solaris Cluster Express (SCX) 9/08. You can learn more about this new support by going to the Solaris Cluster Express area on the ...

geertjan - 2nd Attempt at Griffon Support

Sep 24, 1:58 PM

I got tired of seeing the Grails icon whenever I was working with Griffon, so fashioned my own Griffon icon and then recreated the whole set of modules from scratch, with a completely fresh check out ...

Brian Leonard - Welcome Connecticut

Sep 24, 9:09 AM

The Connecticut OpenSolaris User Group launched in style last night at The Hartford Club , probably one of the more swanky places to host an OSUG. This is the same club to which Mark Twain belonged. ...

Gregg Sporar - Troubleshooting NWAM

Sep 23, 2:14 PM

One of the first Observatory blog entries that Roman wrote was called Having NWAM under control . It is the only Observatory blog entry that I have printed out so that I can carry it in my laptop ...

geertjan - Griffon as a Quick and Dirty Learning Tool

Sep 22, 11:14 AM

It's not like I'm constantly looking for useful scenarios for Griffon and then blogging about it. It's more like I keep tripping over them accidenatally, all the time. I just can't help it! Here's ...

Gregg Sporar - The power of pfexec

Sep 21, 5:25 PM

I recently got a comment on a blog entry I did a while back that explains setting up a multiboot system. The comment was from Peter Jones and he was having trouble editing the menu.lst file.  He had ...