ModuleIdeas
Module Ideas
Looking to extend NetBeans to support your favorite technology? Start here to see if your idea's already under consideration. If the project's looking for an owner, step up. If the project's started, join. if you don't see your project, add it to the list.
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| Priority | Module | Description | NetBeans Sponsor | Target Partner Company | Community Contributor | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | ||||||
| Python | |||||||
| 1 | Groovy | Trung Tran | In progress. To-Dos listed on Project Coyote home page. | ||||
| 1 | JavaScript | Nicolas Désy | In progress. Project home page | ||||
| 1 | Spring support | Craig MacKay | Currently being developed on sourceforge (just started). | ||||
| 1 | PHP | Zend? | |||||
| Tapestry support | Petr Pisl | Under development on java.net (just started). | |||||
| iBatis support | |||||||
| 1 | Jasper Reports support and integration with iReport Designer | Geertjan Wielenga | Toni Epple | In progress on java.net. We also document how to manually work with JasperReports and NetBeans. | |||
| 2 | TestNG | ||||||
| XDoclet support | Project started on sourceforge. | ||||||
| 2 | Hibernate support (non-annotation based) | In progress. .. and all other JBoss "extras" beyond standard EE 5 stuff. Another project is here: https://hts.dev.java.net/ | |||||
| Facelets support | Petr Pisl | Under development, see Facelets Support | |||||
| Geronimo server plugin | Jacek Laskowski | Under development, see GERONIMODEVTOOLS-131 | |||||
| Oracle server plugin | Oracle | ||||||
| JOnAS server plugin | Stepan Herold | Under development, see the JOnbAS project | |||||
| OneJar support for J2SE Application projects | |||||||
| Apache Pluto Portlet support | Matthew Ryan | ||||||
| Wicket support | Petr Pisl | In progress, project created at https://nbwicketsupport.dev.java.net/ | |||||
| 2 | JBoss SEAM | Brian Leonard / Viet Pham | JBoss | When creating a web module, add an option to choose JBoss' Seam framework. The basic requirements are spelled out in Brian's blog. | |||
| Integration with Apache Continuum, Cruise Control, Luntbuild, Anthill and other continuous integration servers | Milos Kleint has done some experimental support for continuum as part of the mevenide project, currently on hold as the released version of continuum has non-sufficient XML-RPC interface. | ||||||
| Support for SVG embedded in HTML/JSP | Petr Pisl | ||||||
| 2 | Tiles support | ||||||
| Struts | Yes, we already have it, but we're behind the industry leaders (NitroX) | ||||||
| 2 | RIFE | Seems to be gaining some traction. | |||||
| JAXX | Is brand new. The author (Ethan Nicholas) recently joined Sun (from Yahoo). Getting basic support is achievable within the standard NetBeans IDE today. | ||||||
| jMatter | Is brand new. Claims to offer Ruby on Rails productivity for developers building Swing applications. Has gotten some attention, but community is still microscopically small. | ||||||
| 2 | GWT | In progress. See gwt4nb project for details. | |||||
| Acegi Security | |||||||
| Blu-Ray | A plug-in to the mobility pack that will support authoring for Blu-Ray content. | Matt Volpi | Sonic | ||||
| DoJa | A plug-in to the mobility pack that will support DoJa authoring (the NTT DoCoMo version of MIDP). | Matt Volpi | |||||
| Perforce | Better support for Perforce versioning system (aka current CVS or SVN) | Perforce | Aurelian Tutuianu | In progress. PerforceNB home page. | |||
| Shale | Support for this nextgen framework | Sun | |||||
| Jetty | Support for this web server | ||||||
| Resin | Support for this lightweight app server | ||||||
| Hessian | Support for this light weight cross platform and cross language web service/serialization technology. | ||||||
| Rome | Support for processing RSS feeds with Rome | ||||||
| jMaki and Dynafaces | jMaki and DynaFaces support | Ludovic Champenois | |||||
| DWR | DWR support. | Ludovic Champenois | Plugin is a sub project under https://ajax.dev.java.net | ||||
| Phobos | Phobos project type and runtime support. | Ludovic Champenois | |||||
| JSON | JSON support | ||||||
| Scala | Scala support | I have a very basic implementation of ant-based project type (short description). If you are interested in the development of the plugin please let me(Martin Krauskopf) know. | |||||
| Jasmin | Jasmin support | I'm working on the plugin from time to time. Having simple syntax highlighting using Lexer API (need much more work) and template wizard for creating Jasmin classes. Please let me(Martin Krauskopf) know if you are interested in it. | |||||
| FindBugs | FindBugs support | Sven Reimers | A working prototype has been implemented. It can be downloaded from here via updatecenter. Short documentation can be found here. The project is currently undergoing a major overhaul. The successor is currently developed at SQE | ||||
| SQE | Enhance Code Quality Tool(s) Integration | Sven Reimers, Florian Vogler | Provide a tight integration with code quality or analysis tools as FindBugs, PMD, Checkstyle, Dependendy Finder... Work has started at SQE - prototype should be available in near future. | ||||
| Javadoc Code Completion | Support for code completion to javadoc | ||||||
| Lua | |||||||
| Crystal Reports | |||||||
| 2 | Undo-DB | Reverse Debugging Tool for C/C++ | Ankur Saha | http://undo-software.com | Greg Law, Julian Smith | ||
