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| <p><b>Why would you use the NetBeans Platform? | |
| What does the NetBeans Platform give you? Many | |
| out-of-the-box components and | |
| much else besides.</b> | |
| <h2>Description of Main Reusable Components</h2> | |
| <p>The main reusable components comprising | |
| the NetBeans Platform are as follows: | |
| <h3>Modular Runtime Container</h3> | |
| <p> | |
| Just as application servers | |
| such as GlassFish provide | |
| lifecycle services to web applications, | |
| the NetBeans runtime container | |
| provides them to Swing applications. | |
| Application servers understand | |
| how to compose web modules, EJB modules, | |
| and so on, into a single web application, | |
| just as the NetBeans runtime container understands | |
| how to compose NetBeans modules | |
| into a single Swing application. <p>Modularity offers | |
| a solution to "JAR hell" by letting | |
| developers organize their code into strictly | |
| separated and versioned modules. Only | |
| those that have explicitly declared | |
| dependencies on each other are able to use | |
| code from each other's exposed packages. This | |
| strict organization is of particular relevance | |
| to large applications developed by | |
| engineers in distributed environments, during | |
| the development as well as the maintenance of their | |
| shared codebase. | |
| <p>End users of the application benefit too | |
| because they are able to install modules | |
| into their running applications, since modularity | |
| makes them pluggable. In short, the | |
| NetBeans runtime container is an execution | |
| environment that understands | |
| what a module is, handles its lifecycle, | |
| and enables | |
| it to interact with other modules | |
| in the same application. | |
| <p>Watch the video: | |
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| <h3>Loose Coupling & Context Sensitivity Management</h3> | |
| <p> | |
| The JDK 6 ServiceLoader class lets | |
| you load objects into a standard | |
| Java application's application context. | |
| The NetBeans equivalent, which is the | |
| Lookup class, provides the same functionality, | |
| dependency injection, and much else besides. <p>Not only can you | |
| use this class to enrich a module's context, | |
| but also the context of windows and other components within | |
| a module. | |
| The Lookup feature enables | |
| modules to communicate with each other | |
| in a type-safe manner and in such a way | |
| that objects defined in one module can | |
| be used in another module, without the | |
| two modules needing to depend on each other. | |
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| <h3>System FileSystem</h3> | |
| <p> | |
| When you install applications onto | |
| your computer, the application's installer | |
| writes folders and files into the | |
| operating system. The | |
| NetBeans filesystem offers similar | |
| functionality to your Swing applications. | |
| Each module installed into a Swing application | |
| can install folders and files | |
| into the application's filesystem, allowing | |
| other modules in the application to find | |
| them and use them. <p>For example, if there | |
| are settings that you'd like one module to make available | |
| to your application, you can register them | |
| in the filesystem. In this way, the | |
| NetBeans filesystem enables modules | |
| within your application | |
| to communicate with each other. | |
| <p>Watch the video: | |
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| <h3>Window System</h3> | |
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| Most serious applications need | |
| more than one window. Coding good | |
| interaction between multiple | |
| windows is not a trivial task. | |
| Out of the box, | |
| the NetBeans Platform provides | |
| functionality such | |
| as maximize/minimize, dock/undock, | |
| and drag-and-drop of windows | |
| in your application. That is made | |
| possible because windows in | |
| a NetBeans Platform application | |
| are | |
| part of the NetBeans window system. | |
| </p> | |
| <p>Watch the video: | |
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| <h3>Data Management</h3> | |
| <p> | |
| With the NetBeans Platform, you're not | |
| constrained by one of the typical | |
| pain points in Swing: the JTree model | |
| is completely different to the JList model, | |
| even though they present the same data. | |
| Switching between them means | |
| rewriting the model. The NetBeans Nodes API provides | |
| a generic model for presenting your data. | |
| The NetBeans Explorer & Property Sheet API | |
| provides several advanced Swing comonents | |
| for displaying nodes. As a result, | |
| by rewriting one | |
| single line of code, you can | |
| completely change the | |
| way the model is presented without | |
| touching the model at all. In turn, this | |
| lets you very quickly and efficiently | |
| present data to your users. | |
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| <h3>Extensions to Swing</h3> | |
| <p>The NetBeans Platform provides | |
| the following custom components: | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>TopComponent | |
| <li>Visual Library | |
| <li>Explorer Views | |
| <li>Miscellaneous Swing Components | |
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| <h3>Ready-To-Use Components</h3> | |
| <p>By simply selecting one checkbox, and | |
| without you needing to do any coding at all, | |
| your application can use the following | |
| NetBeans Platform components: | |
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| <li>Favorites Window | |
| <li>Plugin Manager | |
| <li>Options Window | |
| <li>JavaHelp System | |
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| <p><h3>Other Benefits</h3> | |
| <p><p>Other factors that have persuaded developers to use the NetBeans Platform include | |
| the fact that the NetBeans Platform uses Swing, which is the official standard UI toolkit, | |
| that it enables applications to have a consistent look and feel, | |
| that the Matisse GUI Builder enables you to very easily design your application's | |
| layout, that <a href="http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/index.html">the NetBeans Platform provides a rich set of APIs</a>, and that the | |
| NetBeans Platform is <a href="https://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html">tried</a>, <a href="http://qa.netbeans.org/">tested</a>, and <a href="http://platform.netbeans.org/whatsnew/65.html">continually being improved</a>. Finally, | |
| <a href="http://forums.netbeans.org/platform-users.html">the community is helpful and diverse</a>, while <a href="http://planets.sun.com/nbplatform/group/Prague/">blogs</a>, | |
| <a href="https://platform.netbeans.org/articles/books.html">books</a>, | |
| <a href="https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/">tutorials</a>, and <a href="http://edu.netbeans.org/contrib/slides/netbeans-platform/">training materials</a> | |
| are continually being developed in multiple languages by many different people | |
| around the world. | |
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