Toni Epple's Blog

There’s a great overview about the new features in NetBEans Platform 6.7 over at DZone:

What’s New in NetBeans Platform 6.7? | NetBeans Zone.

It has all the details. Read it and vote for it!

This year at JavaOne Fabiane and I did an interview with Sven Reimers and Florian Vogler from NDSatCom about SQE and the Duke’s Choice Award. The podcast is available now at java.net:

java.net: Java Tools SQE Roundtable, JavaOne 2009.

I’m sitting at home watching another episode of Expedition Adam 1984 - Die Besucher. Some years ago I registered on a website to be informed when this great TV series would be available on DVD. To my great surprise it really worked, and not long ago I recieved a notice that I can buy it on Amazon.

So now I’ve got the DVDs and unlike “Ein Colt für alle Fälle” (=The Fall Guy ) it’s even better than I remembered. It’s a czech/german co-production and one of the finest and funniest Science fiction productions of all times. Maybe it’s because the germans didn’t intervene to much.  I really like my country, but we’re not famous for our humour, so I appreciate that german TV at least co-produced such an awesome series.

I would really like to see the czech original with german subtitles, but unfortunately the DVD is only available in German or Czech, but not bilingual. In my childhood I’ve seen a lot of good czech TV series and in many of them Dada Patrasová played a major character, but I guess the most unforgettable is the role of Dr. Emila Fernandez:

Funny, I just found out that Dagmar Havlová, wife of  Václav Havel, also starred in this series (what role?). In my own, very subjective ranking of great Czech exports “Návštevníci” is number one, even before NetBeans (#2) and Beer (#3).

Just read this interesting posting at JavaLobby:

JDK 6 for Mac OS X Now Bundles VisualVM | Javalobby.

“The recently released Java for Mac OS X v10.5 Update 4 now includes Java VisualVM, a visual tool for monitoring and troubleshooting Java applications.” … which in effect means that the NetBeans Platform is there as well, since Visual VM is a NB Platform Application.

Just opened an account on Slideshare to publish my slides. The first one’s I’ve uploaded are from The OSGi DevCon 2009 two days ago. When uploading as PDF the Bullets are there, but the text is missing, when uplodaing ODF the text is there, but the bullets are missing. I guess the latter is better :-):

I guess I’ll have to play with the format…

I blogged a lot about the new OSGi support for NetBeans platform applications recently. Project netigso, which supplies this support is still in an early state, and if you’ve got ideas contributions, or if you miss important things, this is a good time to talk about it.

Nice news on this topic is, that since recently you can submit bugs for netigso. I’ve just submitted my first one. So if you try out netigso and find something missing, submit your bugs here!

So now I’m sitting here at OSGi DevCon 2009 in Zürich. To my left is NetBeans DreamTeam Member Fabrizio Giudici, to my right is a developer who works on a VisualVM Plugin thise exact moment, strange. I’m right now attending a session about Blueprint, a DI Framework Spec for OSGi. Earlier today I had my presentation on NetBeans and OSGi titled “Frankenstein’s IDE - running NetBeans on OSGi and vice versa”. I did a couple of demos, but I didn’t have time to do the last one about distributed OSGi, too bad… Still a nice experience to hang out with the OSGi and Spring crowd :-). Here are some pictures. The right one is a picture of Felipe Gaucho, Fabrizio and me during  lunch break.

The good news is, that the demo is actually working now. Besides a few problems with the bundle-idenetifier (that’s the reason why I installed the two bundles manually in the last part). I used felix directly for the client side and installed the compendium interfaces, the single bundle DOSGi and the interface and client bundles. A few moments after activating the bundle a input dialog pops up and on input invokes the service to retrieve the result. Voila Distribute OSGi with NetBeans. Glassfish is next…

There’s a lot of interest in Distributed OSGi, part of OSGi Spec 4.2. The idea is to make it transparent to your bundle if a service is local or remote. That’s nice, because you can use the same code e.g. on the server where you can access a local service as on the client, where you access the service on the server remotely. The Apache CFX installation also exposes the service as a webservice, so you could call it from a regular webservice client, e.g. from a NetBeans platform app.

But why make it so complicated, with netigso around the corner it should be a breeze to get this working in NetBeans directly without the need to create webservice clients at all… To get started I downloaded the single bundle version (I’m lazy) of the reference implementation and followed the tutorial for setting it up on felix. So I downloaded the compendium interfaces and put both files in a directory named “DOSGi” in folder modules. Then I used the clusterize ANT task (ant -f /<netigso>/harness/suite.xml clusterize -Dcluster=DOSGi -Dincludes=modules/** ) and imported the cluster to a NetBeans Platform application (application project -> properties-> libraries-> add Cluster).

Next I replaced the version 1.4.1 felix.jar in my netigso platform build with a version 1.8. To see if everything is fine I also installed the remote shell (thanks Sven!) and fired up my app. Connected to the shell (telnet localhost 6666), then issued a “ps” and voila:

Felix Remote Shell Console:
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-> ps
START LEVEL 1
ID   State         Level  Name
[   0] [Active     ] [    0] System Bundle (1.8.0)
[   1] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.bootstrap/1 (2.18)
[   2] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.modules (7.10)
[   3] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.util (7.22.0)
[   4] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.core.startup/1 (1.15.0)
[   5] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.core.netigso (1.0)
[   6] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.filesystems (7.21.0)
[   7] [Installed  ] [    1] org.jdesktop.layout/1 (1.7.0)
[   8] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.api.annotations.common/1 (1.0)
[   9] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.api.progress/1 (1.13.0)
[  10] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.core.windows/2 (2.14.0)
[  11] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.core/2 (3.11.0)
[  12] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.libs.jna/1 (1.2)
[  13] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.libs.junit4 (1.4)
[  14] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.editor.mimelookup/1 (1.11)
[  15] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.javahelp/1 (2.12)
[  16] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.masterfs/2 (2.16)
[  17] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.options.api/1 (1.12)
[  18] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.options.keymap (1.5)
[  19] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.print (7.0)
[  20] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.queries/1 (1.14)
[  21] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.sendopts/2 (2.4)
[  22] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.settings/1 (1.18.0)
[  23] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.modules.spi.actions/1 (1.0)
[  24] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.spi.quicksearch (1.1)
[  25] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.swing.outline (1.4)
[  26] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.swing.plaf (1.9)
[  27] [Installed  ] [    1] org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol (1.15)
[  28] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.actions (6.9.0)
[  29] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.awt (7.8.0)
[  30] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.dialogs (7.10)
[  31] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.explorer (6.18.0)
[  32] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.io (1.16)
[  33] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.loaders (7.5)
[  34] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.nodes (7.9.0)
[  35] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.text (6.22)
[  36] [Installed  ] [    1] org.openide.windows (6.26)
[  37] [Active     ] [    1] OSGi R4 Compendium Bundle (4.1.0)
[  38] [Active     ] [    1] Apache Felix Remote Shell (1.0.4)
[  39] [Active     ] [    1] Apache Felix Shell Service (1.2.0)
[  40] [Active     ] [    1] Distributed OSGi Distribution Software Single-Bundle Distribution (1.0)

DOSGi is running. Since I was eager to see if things work without digging into the details of DOSGi configuration I simply installed one of the samples:

-> start http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/cxf/dosgi/samples/cxf-dosgi-ri-samples-greeter-interface/1.0/cxf-dosgi-ri-samples-greeter-interface-1.0.jar
-> start http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/cxf/dosgi/samples/cxf-dosgi-ri-samples-greeter-impl/1.0/cxf-dosgi-ri-samples-greeter-impl-1.0.jar

…and now I’ve got this:

So enough for today… Tomorrow I’ll try to install that on glassfish and make my NetBeans app a client. (Or in case Glassfish’s felix version is too old, I’ll use NetBeans as client and server)

I’m preparing my talk for OSGi Devcon Europe 2009. It’s only 30 minutes, so I have to cut out a lot of the theoretical stuff. If you’re there, let me know. Looking forward to also see some NetBeans friends there :-).

Here’s an interview with NetBeans DreamTeam Member Sven Reimers about the Duke’s Choice Award & NB Platform: