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| <h1>What's New in NetBeans Platform 6.9?</h1> |
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| <p>An overview of changes relating to |
| <a href="https://platform.netbeans.org/">NetBeans Platform 6.9</a>, which is the |
| Swing framework that underpins applications such as NetBeans IDE.</p> |
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| <p><b>Note:</b> <a href="https://platform.netbeans.org/whatsnew/68.html">Click here</a> for the previous |
| release of this document.</p> |
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| <h3>New Features</h3> |
| <p>The following new features are provided for developers |
| creating applications atop NetBeans Platform 6.9:</p> |
| <ul> |
| |
| <li><b>OSGi Interoperability.</b> OSGi support for NetBeans Platform applications is |
| provided in |
| various flavors, making it possible to: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Create new OSGi bundles in NetBeans Platform applications.</li> |
| <li>Import OSGi bundles into NetBeans Platform applications.</li> |
| <li>Convert NetBeans Platform applications to OSGi bundles and |
| run, debug, and profile them in the IDE.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Furthermore, the OSGi interoperability focus in this release includes:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Bundled Felix container and experimental Equinox support.</li> |
| <li>New OSGi-based NetBeans Platform articles and tutorials.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li><b>Enhanced Support for Maven.</b> Maven support for NetBeans Platform applications |
| has been enhanced in the following ways: |
| <ul> |
| <li>New Maven NetBeans Module Suite project archetype |
| added as a container project for a set of module projects.</li> |
| <li>UI support for setting public packages.</li> |
| <li>Annotation processing was fixed for Maven |
| to support those NetBeans APIs using annotation |
| generating sources and annotations referring |
| to resources in bundles.</li> |
| <li>Maven-based CRUD sample.</li> |
| <li>New Maven-based NetBeans Platform articles and tutorials.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><b>REST Client Support.</b> Tools have been added to NetBeans IDE |
| for quickly adding REST client support to NetBeans Platform applications.</li> |
| |
| <li><b>Branding Editor.</b> Right-click the application suite project (in the Ant case) |
| or the branding module project (in the Maven case) and choose Branding. |
| A Branding Editor opens, letting you |
| brand icons, splash screen, window system, and all strings in the application.</li> |
| |
| <li><b>Installer Generator.</b> Right-click an application in the IDE |
| and choose Properties to |
| configure the generation of installers for the operating systems of your |
| choice, in the new Installer tab. Close the Project Properties dialog |
| and then right-click the project again and |
| invoke Build Installers.</li> |
| |
| <li><b>NetBeans Platform Samples.</b> Several new samples are included in NetBeans IDE 6.9 |
| to help newbies get started with various NetBeans |
| Platform development. |
| <ul> |
| <li>CRUD sample</li> |
| <li>Facebook sample</li> |
| <li>Felix sample</li> |
| <li>Equinox sample</li> |
| </ul> |
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| </li> |
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| </ul> |
| |
| <h3>NetBeans API Enhancements</h3> |
| |
| <p>Read all of the changes <a href="http://bits.netbeans.org/6.9/javadoc/apichanges.html">here</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Other changes:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/AutoUpdateTask">AutoUpdateTask</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/d032dfa7b3cf">More consistency between AbstractLookup and ProxyLookup</a>.</li> |
| <li><a href="http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/9f10d5cbc0aa">Support for custom configuration files</a>. (<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/support_for_custom_configuration_files">blog entry</a>)</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h3>Migration</h3> |
| <p>The Lookup classes have been moved into a separate module, named Lookup API. Therefore, |
| all modules making use of Lookup need a new dependency on this new module. Also, |
| dependencies on the Utilities API module, which previously contained the Lookup classes, |
| need to be updated to the latest version.</p> |
| |
| <p>For Ant-based NetBeans Platform applications, run this target for each module |
| making use of Lookup-related classes:</p> |
| |
| <pre>ant fix-dependencies </pre> |
| |
| <p>In the IDE, you can do the following to run the above Ant target: |
| Important Files > Build Scripts (right click) > Run target > fix-dependencies</p> |
| |
| <p>Also, instead of the above, you can simply add the Lookup API module to each module that makes |
| use of the Lookup classes. For each module, right-click |
| the module in NetBeans IDE, choose Properties, go to the Libraries panel, |
| click Add Dependency, and then add the Lookup module. For the Utilities API module, |
| you can remove it from the list of dependencies and then readd it to |
| set the correct version of the dependency.</p> |
| |
| <p>To achieve the above for Maven-based NetBeans Platform applications, |
| you need to add the Lookup dependency to the POM of all modules that use Lookup:</p> |
| |
| <pre> |
| <dependency> |
| <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> |
| <artifactId>org-openide-util-lookup</artifactId> |
| <version>${netbeans.version}</version> |
| </dependency></pre> |
| |
| <p>For Maven-based applications, you also need to update |
| the "platform" definition (from "platform11" to "platform") in the application module:</p> |
| |
| <pre> |
| <dependency> |
| <groupId>org.netbeans.cluster</groupId> |
| <artifactId>platform</artifactId> |
| <version>${netbeans.version}</version> |
| <type>pom</type> |
| </dependency></pre> |
| |
| <h3>New Screencasts</h3> |
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| <p><a href="https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/platform-screencast.html">Creating Applications on NetBeans Platform 6.9</a></p> |
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