tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354816272012-01-05T16:30:35.320+01:00Blog about me using NetBeans.Iwan Eisinghttps://profiles.google.com/117921912885502820177noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35481627.post-26472139752657318262009-09-29T15:55:00.000+02:002009-09-29T15:55:23.158+02:00

Hi, Yesterday I finished my 'assignment' on the UI of our game IFF. I completed the the registration form and added a form including tabs for maintaining other relevant user data. I then incorporated it all in the game itself. Unfortunately, the book ("LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers") doesn't really elaborate on this topic. It doesn't tell you in so many words how to combine your LWUIT based

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Hi, As you could read in the 3rd part of my reviewon "LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers", creating the actual form and putting functionality in it is actually very simple. The book helped me a lot, but mainly because I already new what I wanted, I know some Swing and a reference guide is good enough in those cases. After a bit of effort I ended up with the screen at the right. It looks like a

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i, So the last few days I have been struggling, not with LWUIT but with my health. But I made some progress. As I stated last time, I think the book "LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers" is more of a reference than a tutorial and while working on the screens for our game, I found that this is true. I still need to download all source-code from the Packt Publishing site, but I think it is safe to

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Hi, Last week I posted about the context of my review, I want to use the book "LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers" on a real project in which I start of using LWUIT without know it at all, and see if the book helps me in achieving my goal(s). While doing so I'll be posting my findings as a series of posts resulting in the complete review. Well my first impression of the book once I opened the

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Hi, Yesterday I got my review copy of Packt Publishing's book on "LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers" and as promised before I'll post a review as I am reading and more accurately experiencing the book. I'm currently working together with friends of mine on a free multi-player online realtime strategy game for mobiles. It's called IFF: Identification Friend or Foe and we're in a private beta

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Hi, Last week I received and answered an email from Packt Publishing. They wanted to know if I was interested to review their book on LWUIT called "LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers". And I said yes, so the book is on its way to me. Now the interesting part is that we, Marcel and myself, just recently decided to do all the dialogs in our game IFF using LWUIT instead of SVG. Most important

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Hi,Promise: Right after publishing this post, I'll file an issue!So I have setup NB such that the import section and all JavaDoc is collapsed by default when opening a file. Why? Because it clutters my screen and I don't find it helpful to see all that code and documentation.Since the IDE is doing such a great job in managing my imports and the code-completion shows all JavaDoc when I need it, I

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Well, last time I used this title I got some useful comments. Meanwhile I fixed my problems and in fact it was a race condition that I couldn't fix by using locks.The problem I was facing had to do with the fact that I have a graph of objects that I maintain in a database. Adding a new object to the graph, means that certain objects would point to it as being a new neighbor. Which objects in the

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Hi,Thrilled after installing M1 of NB68 I fired it up and the first dialog was a disappointment. It didn't see that I have a NB67 installation, instead it asked if it was okay to import the settings of my NB65 installation. Bummer.I reverted back to NB671 and will give NB68M1 a second try later today. Recreating all settings myself and will file a bug on it.Iwan

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Hi,Last weekend I ran into this race-condition on the server side of our game IFF (plug: http://www.sticktailgames.com:8080/IFFMobile/). I was stress testing the server and what do you know, all crumbled into a pile of rubbish as soon as, dare I say, more than one person at a time registered for the game. Now I do have made some short-cuts in the server code to circumvent some code because I

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NetBeans 6.7 has been out in the wild for a while now and... well and then there's the JavaME stuff, which is kinda important to me since we're developing mobile games (we = Sticktail Games). JavaME SDK 3.0 is finally out the door and pre-packaged with NB 6.7, but still no support on other platforms than Windows. Which until last Christmas wasn't a big deal, but I got a MacBook 13" from misses

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Hi,It's been a while since I've been posting about NetBeans, all kinds of reasons, but mainly because I just couldn't give blogging enough priority. But today I've got some spare minutes.NetBeans has been growing tremendously since the last time I blogged about it, we're now at 6.7.I think last time I was blogging about NetBeans I was working on a game, for mobiles. I should check my posts...

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... and it has the same bright look and feel as the new NetBeans website. Which is fresh, but to be honest, I liked the other more darker look and feel with all its transitions better.The home page title is set to HP, why? Probably it's short for 'Home Page'?It all works better now and I was able to add a picture to my profile, which wasn't possible in the previous version, at least I got an

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Hi,As you know, NetBeans 6 has been officially released yesterday, and as a true NetCAT member I was feeling rather proud because I was an active member of the team that used NB6 in it's final stages before going gold.So I downloaded it and installed the real deal, and fired it up and rediscovered my JavaME emulators and opened my projects. And than it struck me, it was really the same thing. Not

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Hi,Dit you already register on My.NetBeans.org? A new social networking site specifically for the NetBeans community (disclaimer: this is my own definition of the site, not reflecting anything officially stated). Anyway, I did register as soon as I got onto the site. It, by the way, looks really good. I like the fading effects.The only thing I don't like at the moment is the fact that it doesn't

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Hi,Recently I blogged about the RC1 of NetBeans I installed and the good and bad of the first release candidate. of NetBeans 6.0. One of the major upgrades of NetBeans since about ever.I installed RC2 last week right after it came out and started testing the major bug I was experiencing, WS client generation for mobile applications. And the bug I'd found was solved, and I was very happy about

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... well, for starters I want to just say that the latest bug I found in the code generation of WS support in JavaME projects was fixed, almost immediately after filing it. Let me put it this way, if NB would be in constant beta, in constant NetCAT, I would download the latest dev build every day, use it, report the bugs and continue working with fixes the next day... but that would prevent the

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Hi,It has been a while since I last blogged about NB 6. And for good reason since I used it instead of blogging about it. Which to my defense, means that it was a joy to use NB and our game has progressed considerably.I had a few problems with the code generation for WS support in mobiles, but these were all fixed within a day. Although today I found another code generation problem in NB 6, but

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Yes, it has been a while and I am actually longer than just 3 weeks member of NetCAT 60. But last week I was on vacation in Oman, scuba diving all week long. Believe it or not, I haven't thought about NetBeans during that week for a single time.Now that I am back I've installed the dev build of last Monday. In my mailbox I found some notifications from Issuezilla that some UML bugs where fixed

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So I've now been working with the NB 6 releases beta1 and after, after here being the dev build of last week Monday. My strategy here is to install on Monday the latest dev build I can download and use it for a week, not installing any newer builds unless there's a bug that is holding me up. Sofar, I have one bug that is keeping me from progressing on developing my game and sofar it hasn't been

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So yesterday I blogged about installing NB 6.0 beta1. I just installed the dev build of the 25th, but I used beta1 for about a week on our mobile multi-player game. I was developing the backend last week on Glassfish v2b58g.As with the installation everything runs quite smoothly, although you shouldn't be looking in the messages.log, since it is not stacktrace free. So far I haven't been able to

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So it has been one week of beta1 usage for me now. I'm participating in the NetCAT 60 program, yup I'm one of the chosen ones so I have to use beta1. And being the person I am, I am using it on a production project... although it is intended to be a project that is going to be highly successful... a mobile game that has a JavaEE backend.But on to beta1. Having played with the dev builds recently

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Hi,It's been a while since I've blogged, and I won't say that'll change. I've made that promise too often without being able to live up to it. But enough about that.Last week I reported a bug (113543) about that I couldn't use the visual designer for changing a persistence.xml file. There was a workaround; changing the file in XML view, so the P1 was set to a P2. As it turned out, the JPA

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I ditched NB6 M10 for NB5.5.1, because I'm developing some EE stuff on Glassfish.Last Wednesday and Thursday I spend most of my time on rebuilding my NB5.5 project in NB6 M10. The reason for this was that I couldn't successfully open the 5.5 project in 6M10 and deploy it. Opening was possible, compiling was possible, but I couldn't deploy it. Note that I'm deploying to Glassfish v2b53 that comes

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Hi,It has been a while since I blogged, and that is mainly due to the fact that I didn't work on my project for quite a while. Why? Because I was too busy with all kinds of other stuff, like auditing an architecture for a start-up here in the Netherlands, setting up and implementing a QA process for a customer of mine and spending time in the UK on a JCAPS training and visiting JavaOne 07.Between

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Hi,As promised I was going to update this blog with my proceedings in debugging my JEE application. In my previous posts you could read what was going on with persistency and debugging my JEE application.From the NB developers I got the hint to start the Sun AS 9 server in debug mode and attach my application to that instance instead of doing a standard debug session, and this works. It works

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Hi,Last night I blogged about my misfortunes with NB's JEE support and promised to keep on updating while I thought I was making progress. And there's something more to tell.And some progress was made since my previous blog. I found out that I can actually run the application and test the WS from the IDE (right-click on the WS and test it), but I can't debug the application. That results in

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Update: I fixed the first exception mentioned in this blog. I had two methods in the WS with the same name but different params. And yesterday I probably didn't compile the -war project, which I did today. Really annoying NB doesn't take care of this.As promised in yesterday's blog, I would keep you all posted on my proceedings... Unfortunately there's a lot of misery going on.So I moved towards

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Yesterday I moved my project into the realm of JEE with EJB and all. Coming from a web only application I stumbled in too many problems I didn't want to think about too much. Most of them had to do with transaction management, lousy design (on my part), and getting used to developing serverside code in NB55 (I only used MobPack for the last 12 months or so) didn't help either.I downloaded

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Okay, let me start of with stating that I am probably doing something wrong here, but yesterday I was amazed by the speed of Sun AS 9.I'm working on a backend system that uses JPA, and connects with a MIDlet, or rather, at the moment the MIDlet is connecting with the backend. But that's not the issue today. The backend has a daemon running (a thread in the web tier) started by a servlet that

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Recently I was looking at connecting my MIDlet with a backend application running in Sun AS 9, of course developed in NetBeans as well and since I am not really sure whether or not WS are supported by the phones the MIDlet will run on, I generated, well I had NB generate the web connectivity. Really cool stuff.Then I wanted it all to work, ie send data from the phone to the backend and have the

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Yesterday I was working with my good friend Marcel on our massive multi player mobile internet strategy game (mmpmis?). He had written an API that I recently incorporated in the game and he'd changed it on a conceptual level, so I had to redo a lot of work... not funny. But due to the collaboration support NB provides we could share the various sources and show in the actual code what we thought

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I've played with the final release of NB55 and it really is great. I have some gripes still (Can't get the UML projects into SVN, this just doesn't seem possible). I'll file an issue sometime soon.The UML projects are great though. Especially for Java ME stuff, a good design is really important when you have to put good programming practices aside because that just isn't efficient enough. Sofar

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Hi,Yesterday I blogged that after installing NB55 and all additional packs, I got an 5.5RC2 userdir. Today I uninstalled everything again, deleted all files, restarted my laptop and installed everything again. Now it works as expected and I get the 5.5 userdir.Only thing that's left at the moment is enjoying working with it and starting anticipation on the 6.0 release :)Iwan

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Hi,I just downloaded all the downloads of the NB5.5 distribution, so that would be NB55 and all additional packs.I then uninstalled all previous versions of NB, which were NB55 dev, RC1 and RC2 and the M3 release of NB6. Then all userdirs were removed from my system as well. So you can see I've got a clean NB environment. And on with the installation...Everything worked fine and everything

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It's been blogged about before, but they've released the second release candidate of NetBeans 5.5. For me it means that I can work with an even more stable version of NB55. I've got to say that it is very stable since a very long time. The only problems I now and then have is regarding SubVersion, but I'm not sure whether that is because of NetBeans, SubVersion or me. I can't reproduce the

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Hi,Another developer's blog. Lasy Wednesday I went to J-Fall, the annual fall Java conference of the NLJUG (Dutch Java User Group).It was an interesting day. A lot of interesting sessions, but unfortunately I was only able to attend the sessions in the afternoon. To start of with some negative remarks: It was way too hot during the sessions, which made me sleepy. Having said that, the sessions I

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Today I read the good news, NetBeans 5.5 is in its Release Candidate phase. And MobPack is included. Great news. Even better news is that the Visual Web Pack will be released with 5.5 although not in its final state.But the best news is that we're getting into a phase where 5.5 is rather stable and I can start convincing people to move to the next version. Why this is such good news? Well I've

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