1. Do you create NB Platform applications for your projects, company, etc? My own product, Ultorg ( https://www.ultorg.com/ ), is built on the NetBeans Platform, with Maven. It's a graphical interface for working with relational databases. Those kinds of tools are often Java apps, as JDBC drivers are robust and users typically need a locally running app to be able to connect to databases on internal networks etc.
I find it useful to do a custom build of the NetBeans Platform where I can add my own patches as needed. Then from time to time I create Pull Requests against the official Apache NetBeans project to contribute enhancements and bugfixes. -- Eirik From: Tim Mullé <tmu...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM To: "users@netbeans.apache.org" <users@netbeans.apache.org> Subject: Does anyone still make NetBeans Platform Applications in 2024/2025? Hi All, It’s been a while since I was on this mailing list so I am curious if NetBeans Platform Applications are still being developed in 2024/2025? I know everything today is ‘web’ centric and mobile apps, etc. for most casual users and possibly corporate as well. I know my company I work at we still have a hand made Swing Based IDE-looking application that is 10+ years old and we still maintain it. It was before my time and for whatever reason they choose NOT to use NB Application Platform and hand coded the UI framework with another open source Windowing Framework, hand manage menu items, global selections, custom plugin manager, etc. essentially EVERYTHING NB gives you. I tried to convince them we should port our code as best we can to NB Platform but I got the usual “It’s too brittle and complex to change now”..that was almost 8 years ago :) Anyway, I’m just wondering: 1. Do you create NB Platform applications for your projects, company, etc? 2. Do you use Ant or Maven based development? 3. If Maven, how do you find all the required dependencies you need for things like Project Api, IDE stuff, etc. Ant version of NB dev has the nice table you can just check libraries and it figures things out for you and pulls the correct dependencies. Maven doesn’t have that in the UI for NB dev (at least not that I’ve seen). I’ve had to do A LOT of trial and error hunting down libraries and looking at old/outdated tutorials or piece together blog posts across the years. I would like to re-push my company to consider porting to NB because we are now tripping over our own legacy code base trying to add new features or even maintain some of the sections. Most of our stuff can be made easy by being developed as Plugins as long as our core IDE was sound. But I also want to make the development experience for the other non-netbeans savvy developers easy since we use Maven and everyone uses Intellij and one person eclipse. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@netbeans.apache.org> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
