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Real, supported, module development has arrived
Posted by richunger on September 12, 2005 at 12:57 PM | Comments (3)
Other folks have been blogging about the new support for NetBeans module development in the 5.0 stream. However, as the guy who put together the "cluster build harness" for (unofficially) supporting module development in 4.1, I just thought I'd chime in with my own words of praise.
If I were starting a project based on the netbeans platform now, I would not use my cluster build harness. I'd use 5.0 builds, and I'd begin with Geertjan's (most finished) tutorial.
The new UI for module development is very effective. How effective? Well, when I get a few moments I'll write another entry about how I was able to create a module in about 5 minutes to test my fix for http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64012
It would have been a lot more work with the cluster build harness!
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I'm looking forward to trying to build NetBeans 5 modules. While reading Geert's initial docs though, it seems like it is even more tied to using the NetBeans IDE to develop NetBeans modules. I understand why this would be advantageous to nearly all NetBeans module developers.
But, to developers who are tied (either restricted or by preference) to another IDE and want to use the NetBeans platform for their next RCP, does the new version provide the same level of IDE agnosticism as your harness?
Posted by: oravecz on September 12, 2005 at 01:47 PM
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I haven't tried building an app with a different IDE, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work. Under the hood, it's essentially just a newer, more functional ant build harness. All the GUI modules just make it a hell of a lot easier (with wizards and such) to create new Actions, TopComponents, etc.
I can't imagine my employer ever restricting my IDE choice, but if I were in that scenario, and I wanted to use the nb platform, I would probably use the nb IDE in addition to the proscribed one. After all, it is a free download.
Posted by: richunger on September 12, 2005 at 02:42 PM
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Actually my team is using Eclipse IDE (of choice) and we are developing rich clients on top of NetBeans IDE. It isn't so complicated when you have sources of the the platform available ;-)
Posted by: phantomik on September 13, 2005 at 03:50 AM
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