Yesterday (March 16, 2010) at Microsoft’s MIX10 Conference in Las Vegas, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch announced that native SVG is to be included in IE9. And not only that, it is also the first browser to provide hardware-accelerated SVG support. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-first-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx This is great news for SVG designers or developers, because soon all major browsers will [...]

If you haven’t aware Java have support for RTL (Right-To-Left) for the User Interface, and thank to Netbeans Platform based on Swing, it is easy as well to make Netbeans Platform application to support RTL (Right-To-Left) as well Step 1: Create ComponentOrientation support class This step is optional, but make the testing easier, because it use the [...]

Did you ever wondering who (companies or developers) are using Netbeans Platform as their platform of choice ? You will be surprised if you check this Netbeans Platform Screenshot Showcase. There are a lot of them from various categories: Aerospace & Defence, Oil & Gas Services, Geospatial, Bio & Chemoinformatics, Scientific Modelers, Monitors, & Analyzers, [...]

Recently on the nbdev (dev@openide.netbeans.org) mailing list someone ask a question regarding friend dependencies, because he/she I got the following Error: The module some.package.path is not a friend of some-path\some.jar So what is friend dependency anyways. Friend Dependency is caused by a Module that have an API which its author is not yet comfortable exposing to [...]

There are many books published which describe on how to write unit test eg: using JUnit for Java program. Those books are come from simple-complex scenario depending on the book target reader. However, there are only a few which specialized on User Interface testing. So if you ever wondered on how to test Java GUI, [...]

This Java statistics is based on http://www.kiyut.com (not this blog, this blog is tracked separately). Basically, it is a B2C sites which specialize in Java Desktop Application. If you are wondering how do we track Java version, please visit this step by step guide on how to track java version using google analytics at http://cowwoc.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-java-versions-using-google.html Here is our [...]

How do you reference some some instance from other module in the current module layer.xml ? In my case, I need this functionality/features because I create a module that act as branding module. In this branding module I declare the shortcut, windows, menu, etc. The other module is pure API and pure components. Because of the [...]

Finally someone posting howto or tutorial for tracking Java version using google analytics. Here is the url for more detailed info http://cowwoc.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-java-versions-using-google.html So now you can track your visitors who have java installed. The nice things regarding this tips and tricks is that this tips also capture the java version eg: Java 1.5, 1.6, etc. So no [...]

If you haven’t realized, Netbeans is going to celebrate its 10th birthday. This event will be started from October 20, 2008. Here is the excerpt from the Netbeans Event Site. Since 1998, NetBeans has grown from a student project into an award winning Open Source project, IDE and application platform. With millions of downloads a [...]

This is another series of Netbeans Platform i18n and localization trick. You can read the other series in here and here. This methods is used to localize Netbeans Platform based Application which can be updated using Update Center. It also have an entry on the Plugins List. However, please note this may be somekind of [...]