Re: [VOTE] Apache NetBeans Version Number: 11.0

2019-01-26 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 > +1 > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 07:49, Enrico Olivelli wrote: > > +1(non binding) > > > > > > Enrico > > > > Il giorno sab 26 gen 2019, 08:19 Tomas Poledny ha > > > > scritto: > > > +1 > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 05:54 Vano Beridze > > > +1 > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019,

Re: Installation bundle for Apache NetBeans 10.0 for Windows

2019-01-06 Thread Oliver Rettig
architecture. A preinstalled JRE was no problem in this context. But I think it is a good idea to try it again. Also your instructions to create a debian bundle is intersting. I havnt tried to create such bundles for my linux customers. best wishes for 2019 Oliver > On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, 17:03 Oli

Re: Installation bundle for Apache NetBeans 10.0 for Windows

2019-01-06 Thread Oliver Rettig
Dear Aritra Karak, do you like to share the scripts to create the installers? I am interested in comparing different installers for my netbeans platform apps. best regards Oliver > Dear community, > > I would like to draw your kind attention towards my creation bundle for > Apache NetBeans

Re: Installer for NetBeans bundled with the JDK

2018-12-24 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Neil, why do you prefer non-java-based installers? Should'nt it be possible to create an installer with the nb-installer infrastructure which can download a JDK? For my nb platform apps I bundle a JDK. I think also others should be interested in creating installers with downloading the

An Apache Netbeans Day in Karlsruhe?

2018-12-10 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I am thinking about to organize an "Apache Netbeans Day" at Cooperative State University Karlsruhe, where I am working for the next year 2019. https://www.karlsruhe.dhbw.de/rahmlab/uebersicht.html I have found https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/NetBeans+Events I am

Re: NetBeans - the UI for Maven

2018-11-25 Thread Oliver Rettig
Should'nt it be the same with Netbeans Platform App? The wizzard for a maven based Platform app wizzard can be found in the "Maven" folder but the ant-based Platform app wizzard is in the folder "Netbeans Modules". But I am not sure what should be the default. I feel better with the

Re: How important is OSGi support?

2018-11-11 Thread Oliver Rettig
> > @Oliver Rettig > > I use the possiblity, that the users can dynamically add nb modules very > > intensive and also the possitlibty that needed lib modules are > > automatically added if needed ... > But how often do your users add / remove modules (or enable/di

Re: How important is OSGi support?

2018-11-10 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, what are the features we will lost, if we use OSGI? Are the features we can win with OSGI? Maybe we can start a wiki page to collect the things. I use the possiblity, that the users can dynamically add nb modules very intensive and also the possitlibty that needed lib modules are

Re: java-agent to inject system properties on NetBeans startup

2018-10-11 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi all, for the most frustating limitation is that in the .conf-file only ${HOME} are ${APPNAME} are substituted. A typical situation in a university context is that the size of the home-directories are limited because they are saved on a shared harddisk. In this case I want to switch for the

Re: NbScratchFile waiting for approval

2018-09-24 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 > Dear Devs, > > please have a look into this Plugin: > http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/58020/nbscratchfile and approve it for > NB 9.0 to see it in the Plugin Portal. Thx. > > > Cheers > > Chris

Re: Work Offline as a Global Setting for the Platform?

2018-09-23 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I really need to work with my nb platform apps offline and in the past I had only a few issues to fight with, to make my apps working offline: - xml file with reference schema files with http://... - strange behavoir if during plugin download/installation the computer gos offline -

Re: Future of JavaHelp (or a replacement) in NetBeans?

2018-09-23 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Jan, this sound interesting for me. In the past I have also thought about DocBook. Can you share the XSLT stylesheets to get an idea how it works and how looks? There exist some ant tasks http://ant4docbook.sourceforge.net/ maybe based on we can create some default procedure to integreate

Re: Future of JavaHelp (or a replacement) in NetBeans?

2018-09-23 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I have used JavaHelp consequently in my platform apps for the last 10 years with all its disadavantages but it fulfills my main needs. So it was ok. And the best thing was it works and I have not to think about this. Now it is not available any more and I think we should better think

Creating Installers for 32 and 64 bit in the UI

2018-08-10 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, for my platform apps I typically use the build-in installer creation for windows and linux installers. The new situation for me is that I need to create 64bit and 32 bit installers/ applications. This is of course possible easy by changing properties in the ant scripts but it would be

Re: Public vs. Friend API Reloaded (Round 1)

2018-08-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I have read the complete mail discussion again and I tried to put all arguments into the wiki page. It is not perfectly finished, mabe I can spend some more time in it at the end of the week. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Public+vs+Friend+API Hope this helps.

Re: Apache NetBeans Release Cycle

2018-08-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
t; On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:54 Oliver Rettig, wrote: > > > Phycologically people feel they have a more modern system if it updates > > > more frequently. There should be no reason why minor items can't be > > > released quickly in a more agile way. I susp

Re: Apache NetBeans Release Cycle

2018-08-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
> Phycologically people feel they have a more modern system if it updates > more frequently. There should be no reason why minor items can't be > released quickly in a more agile way. I suspect though we need to move out > of incubator status for that because there are a lot of rounds of approval

Re: AW: Apache NetBeans Release Cycle

2018-08-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
I like sync with supported JDK version but now we have 9.0 and this already supports JDK 10. Maybe the next releases can be 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5 ... next version every 3 months If we have included all donations we can switch to 10.0 If netbeans supports JDK 11 then we switch to 11.0 and

Re: Using 8.2 plugins in 9.0

2018-08-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 and thanks > Hi all, > > On the Slack channel and elsewhere there's been discussion around the need > for everyone to know which 8.2 plugins actually work in 9.0. > > So, here's a page where we can document that: > >

Re: Public vs. Friend API Reloaded (Round 1)

2018-07-25 Thread Oliver Rettig
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2018, 12:05:27 CEST schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > I'm not sure whether voting is necessarily called for -- if we can resolve > something via consensus, that would be much better for everyone. +1 > Having a Wiki outlining the various positions would definitely be useful > for

Requestprocessor - Interruptable task, interruption not detectable

2018-07-25 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hallo, I have implemented some long running processes with usage of RequestProcessor and ProgressHandle. I want to be able to cancel the processes via UI, so I use requestProcessor = new RequestProcessor("ProcessData",1, true); to create cancelable tasks: RequestProcessor.Task task =

Re: Public vs. Friend API Reloaded (Round 1)

2018-07-25 Thread Oliver Rettig
Dear Laszlo, great initiative, thanks for starting the Wiki-Page. Oliver > Dear all, > > It seems there is an active discussion on how to handle the API > Friend-lyness issues. > > We have a few options to choose from and it seems to be we need to vote > sometime on this. > > Geertjan somewhere

Re: Public vs. Friend API?

2018-07-24 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I agree with Emilians comments (have a look at the end of this mail) and I want to add that I like it to start with Friend-only API because then a potential user must become active to use it. The user asks me to be added on the friend-list and I get his e-mail and I can ask him for

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NetBeans 9.0 (incubating) [vote candidate 3]

2018-07-21 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 Oliver Rettig > - Built on Mac OSX 10.13.5 using 1.8.0_131 > - DEPENDENCIES, NOTICE, LICENSE look good > > Thanks > > Josh Juneau > juneau...@gmail.com > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > >

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache NetBeans 9.0 (incubating) [vote candidate 2]

2018-07-21 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 Oliver Rettig > > Hi all, > > > > Please vote on releasing Apache NetBeans 9.0 (incubating)! > > > > If this voting candidate passes, another similar voting will be started on > > gene...@incubator.apache.org, and if that passes too, then we can release &g

Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book

2018-07-16 Thread Oliver Rettig
f us has English as a mother tongue or second tongue, we > > may able to reach and target new markets and new loyal fellows in this > > world wide world we live in > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Delfi Ramirez > > > > Segonquart Studio > > >

Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book

2018-07-16 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi all, I like the idea of a community-written book very much. This can encourage people to join our great community and it show that netbeans is now a apache project ... For me the community is one of the most important facts to work with netbeans and rarely with eclipse. I have some

Re: Custom Rumtime Image for RCP Applications

2018-06-12 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Jens, that is interesting. Thanks for sharing it. I will give it a try. best regards Oliver > Hi > > I am testing a little bit with Custom Runtime Images for our RCP > Application and want to share my experiences. Our custom image is > created by the following Ant snippet. > > ${gtbjdk.home}

Re: [Start Page - welcome module] update content

2018-06-09 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Thilina, I like the idea to keep the welcome module. In some of my platform apps I have used an adapted version this code too. >It is a pity that Welcome module is not well configurable so it needs to be >>doubled and patched and it has some unwanted dependencies. E.g. it has a

Re: How to implement a new language support?

2018-06-02 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, sometimes I play around to build a simple language to allow me to work with mathematical operations - a simple but high speed version of matlab for timeseries analysis. So I found Truffle and Graal a very interesting technology to implement new languages in general. There is a blog

Re: Netbeans cache and configurations

2018-03-21 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 > Windows has a concept of "global" installs vs "user specific" installs. > The former goes into "c:\program files". The latter goes into > c:\users\xxx\AppData. > > Netbeans is kind of odd in that it installs into the global location, > but uses user-specific directories for data. It probably

How to implement a Multi-knob-slider - HTML for JAVA API or Swing?

2018-03-18 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, I am thinking about implementing a complex multi-knobs slider UI component for my netbeans platform apps. I need knobs build from several bitmaps, which can be dragged and moved separatly and a scale with ticks and an arbitrary count of bitmaps overlayed on the slider to mark specific

Re: Propose for a patch to avoid duplicate native libs integration for supporting different windows os

2018-03-09 Thread Oliver Rettig
;starter"-patch to learn the complete workflow for a pull request. best regards Oliver > Hi Oliver, > > Am Sonntag, den 04.03.2018, 22:55 +0100 schrieb Oliver Rettig: > > Yes, you are right. It is possible to put all files in the > > modules/lib/amd64 folder to be

Re: Propose for a patch to avoid duplicate native libs integration for supporting different windows os

2018-03-04 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Matthias, thanks for your help. > So if you place your .dll in the modules/lib/amd64 directory, it should > be loaded on all 64 bit JVMs on windows. Yes, you are right. It is possible to put all files in the modules/lib/amd64 folder to be loaded on all 64 bit jvms on windows, but than in

Propose for a patch to avoid duplicate native libs integration for supporting different windows os

2018-03-04 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, integration of native libs in the netbeans platform works fine for windows, linux, 32bit, 64bit etc. as described in http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-modules/org/openide/modules/doc-files/ api.html#jni Selection of the needed platform dependend native libs is based on the

Re: JSON Support modules

2018-03-04 Thread Oliver Rettig
sorry, I must correct myself. I have deselected the html Editor stuff and dpendend modules and json support was still available in my app. So the json editor support must be included in some other modules. I am a bit confused. > Hi Zoran, > > it is also on my todo list to figure out in detail

Re: JSON Support modules

2018-03-04 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Zoran, it is also on my todo list to figure out in detail how to integrate json support into my platform apps. In my netbeans ide json support works fine with the features described here https://dzone.com/articles/netbeans-74-json-support I havnt found the module in the plugin

Re: Future Idea - Apache NetBeans ML (Machine Learning) and Kubernetes Extensions

2018-02-25 Thread Oliver Rettig
Dear Wade, that sound very interesting for me. Since last year I am working with Deep-learning-for-java and also Keras. I am working on some research projects in combinations with mobile robots, motion analysis and anomaly detection. Because most of my ui based tools are based on the

Re: Alternative JavaHelp viewer was: Give JavaHelp a chance!

2017-11-09 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, are there better alternatives for JavaHelp for usage of HelpSets in netbeans- platform-based apps? For existing platform apps migrating to version 9 it should be easy to add the old JavaHelpSystem sice there is established an alternative to migrate, isnt it? best regards Oliver > Hello

Re: Multiple output folders per java project source folder

2017-07-07 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Emilian, thats a great idea. In the past I had often the problem with such plain java projects, which includes serveral source folders and creates a set of jars from them. As a workaround for working with them in the nb-ide I had to create a project for each of them and sometimes I run into

Re: Commercial Support page

2017-06-12 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi, > Yes, looks like people are simply adding entries there at the moment. > > Not sure if this is what we want -- maybe that notice needs to be at the > top of the page. > sorry, I think I am one of the people. I thought this was the idea of the wiki page to do this on my own. I do not want

Editing permission for making changes to the Wiki - the who-is-who page

2017-03-28 Thread Oliver Rettig
Once you have a user account on Confluence, please send a mail to dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org to ask for editing permissions for making changes to the Wiki Thanks Oliver