NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By : David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

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NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By: David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

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Overview of this book

<p>From the start to the end of a Java project's lifecycle, this book will show you how to perform many key tasks with the NetBeans IDE, uncovering more about mobile, desktop, and enterprise Java along the way.</p> <p>You will start by creating Java projects and learning how to refactor and use NetBeans tools to increase developer efficiency. You will then get a walkthrough of how to create a desktop application before covering JavaFX and mobile applications and how to use external services within them. Having seen how to create many different types of applications, you will then be shown how to test and profile them before storing them in revision control systems such as Git or Subversion. Finally, you will learn how to extend NetBeans itself by adding new features to the IDE.</p>

NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Using NetBeans Projects

Introduction

Creating a Java application

Creating a Maven application

Using Maven projects

Creating a Free-Form application

Creating a library

Importing an Eclipse project

Java Development with NetBeans

Introduction

Creating a package

Creating a class

Creating an interface

Running a file

Debugging a class

Formatting the code

Collapsing and expanding code folds

Toggling comments

Fixing and organizing imports

Creating file headers

Changing the look and feel of NetBeans

NetBeans Productivity

Introduction

Creating a constructor

Creating a logger

Creating a toString() method

Change parameters refactoring

Pull up / push down refactoring

Extract interface refactoring

Encapsulate fields refactoring

Replacing a constructor with the Factory pattern

Developing Desktop Applications with NetBeans

Introduction

Creating a Swing application

Adding components to a form

Building a distributable application from NetBeans

NetBeans Enterprise Application Development

Introduction

Adding WildFly support to NetBeans

Adding TomEE support to NetBeans

Creating a web application

Creating a web application with JSF support

Adding JSF support to a web application

Creating a JSF composite component

Creating an EJB

Creating a Message Driven EJB

Creating a timer

Creating a REST web service

Using the Chrome Connector

Managing Databases with NetBeans

Introduction

Connecting to Java DB

Registering and managing a MySQL Server

Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle

Connecting to PostgreSQL

Managing a SQL database

Connecting to MongoDB

NetBeans JavaFX

Introduction

Creating a JavaFX application

Graphical editing of FXML files

Styling a JavaFX application with CSS

Creating and using a JavaFX custom control

Deploying a self-contained application

NetBeans Mobile Development

Introduction

Adding mobile support to NetBeans

Creating an MIDP application

Adding Android support to NetBeans

Creating an Android application

Version Control

Introduction

Initializing a Git repository

Cloning a Git repository

Checking out from a Subversion repository

Getting the history of a file

Committing and pushing code changes

Creating a Diff patch

Branching a repository

NetBeans Testing and Profiling

Introduction

Installing JUnit support into NetBeans

Creating a JUnit test for an existing class

Creating a JUnit test

Creating a JUnit test suite

Running tests

Creating a TestNG unit test

Profiling an application

Using External Web Services

Introduction

Getting a list of Delicious bookmarks

Adding a Delicious bookmark

Getting a list of recent photos on Flickr

Geocoding with Google Maps

Verifying an e-mail address with StrikeIron

Adding an additional web service into NetBeans

Extending NetBeans

Introduction

Creating a NetBeans module

Packaging a NetBeans module for deployment

Index

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Styling a JavaFX application with CSS

One of the benefits of JavaFX applications is that their user interfaces can be designed rather than developed. This is typically a job done by a designer rather than a developer. As such, it's a good practice to place all of the application styling outside of Java code within a CSS file.

It's possible to style a JavaFX application within Java code by setting fonts and colors and layout padding (we saw an example of setting padding on elements within the Creating a JavaFX application recipe) within the Java code, but obviously, this makes it more difficult to make style changes to an application.

In this recipe, we'll see how we can apply CSS changes primarily to FXML files. We'll also show how CSS can be applied to Java files for those that are curious about how to do this.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you'll need to have either the Java SE, or the Java EE version of NetBeans 8 installed together with a minimum of JDK 7u6 installed.

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NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By : David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By: David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

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