NBCDTipsAndTricks
NetBeans Community Docs- Tips And Tricks
Here you would find all the tips and Tricks, contributed by community members to the documentation project- NetBeans Community Docs. We have tabulated them as per top-level features supported by the NetBeans IDE.
If you want to share a trick, or have some tips to share with the community, send your blog URL/ideas to our Mailing List, if you're already subscribed to our list, then mailto:dev@usersguide.netbeans.org, or check into NetBeans Support Resources, and then share your new-found wisdom with the rest of the community here.
Docs listed down below were contributed from March 2007 to January 28, 2009.
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Base IDE
General Topics
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| Image:Dec 05, 2008 | NetBeans for Processing users | 
| kawazu at zimmer428 dot net | URL |
| Nov 27, 2008 | Find Spring Beans in NetBeans 6.5 | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 26, 2008 | Start NetBeans 6.5 with Nimbus look and feel | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Reading Chrome's bookmarks in Java | Avinash R. Prasad | avinpr at yahoo dot com | URL |
| Nov 21, 2008 | Keyboard Shortcuts Reference Card in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 16, 2008 | Check Java version in the About Box | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 16, 2008 | Use fix code to correct your code | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 12, 2008 | NetBeans can suggest variable names | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Context sensitive code completion in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Repairing NetBeans Support for Java Code after a JDK Reinstallation | George Birbilis | birbilis at kagi dot com | URL |
| Image:Oct 08, 2008 | Open Projects in a Different Way |
| nvarun AT NetBeans DOT org | URL |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Using JTattoo L&F with NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Sep 02, 2008 | Using the Output Window in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Image:Aug 06, 2008 | Freeform Project JUnit Test Results | Alex Kotchnev
| akochnev AT Gee Mail DOT com | URL |
| Jul 27, 2008 | Changing Look And Feel | Tushar Joshi | tusharvjoshi at gmail dot com | URL |
| Jul 27, 2008 | Changing Default Font Size | Tushar Joshi | tusharvjoshi at gmail dot com | URL |
| Image:Jul 22, 2008 | Easily Create JavaBean Properties using Code Templates |
| hwadechandler-nb@yahoo.com | URL |
| Jul 22, 2008 | How To Apply Code Fixes | Varun Nischal | nvarun AT NetBeans DOT org | URL |
| Jul 17, 2008 | Quicksearch in Treeviews in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Jun 27, 2008 | Enable Whitespace For Diff | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Jun 13, 2008 | Fast Bookmarking in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| May 22, 2008 | Troubleshooting NetBeans Startup (Part 2) | Varun Nischal | nvarun@NetBeans.org | URL |
| May 22, 2008 | Passing Runtime Arguments using NetBeans | Varun Nischal | nvarun@NetBeans.org | URL |
| May 16, 2008 | Resolve References to compile JNLP projects with NetBeans 6.x | Michael Lockhart | sinewalker@gmail.com | URL |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Faster NetBeans? Yes, it is posible… | Emmanuel Oga | eoga@elctech.com | URL |
| Mar 17, 2008 | Troubleshooting NetBeans Startup | Varun Nischal | nvarun@NetBeans.org | URL |
| Feb 04, 2008 | Code Template Backup | Kristian Rink | kawazu at zimmer428 dot net | URL |
| Feb 01, 2008 | Salient Features of Netbeans 6.0 | Varun Verma | varunatait@gmail.com | URL |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Surround with Code Folding | Ramon Casha | rcasha at gmail dot com | URL |
| Dec 13, 2007 | "View" toolbar with select in projects and select in files | Alessandro Negrin | alessandro dot negrin at gmail dot com | URL |
| Dec 05, 2007 | Improved Eclipse Key Bindings | David R. Heffelfinger | dheffelfinger at ensode dot net | URL |
| Oct 20, 2007 | Resolving NetBeans web app deployment problem (to Apache Tomcat) | Kok-Yan Lo | klo_2k a.t hotmail d.o.t com | URL |
| Sep 30, 2007 | Open JDK: Working with 'javac' | Amit Kumar Saha | amitksaha@NetBeans.org | URL |
| Sep 05, 2007 | NetBeans 6.0 (M10) and Vista: Workaround | Vanna Kruy | kruyvanna at gmail dot com | URL |
| Sep 04, 2007 | Getting Intellisense (code-complete) to work in a NetBeans "Java Application with Existing Ant Script" | Lee Patton | lee at pattoncentral dot org | URL |
| Sep 03, 2007 | NetBeans for Eclipse Users | Multiple (everyone, please add to this document) | URL | |
| Image:Sep 03, 2007 | How to run a NetBeans project in an operating system console window |
| hwadechandler dash NetBeans at yahoo dot com | URL |
| Aug 22, 2007 | Adding some iPhone flavor to NetBeans 6.0 | Kirill Grouchnikov | kirillcool at yahoo dot com | URL |
| Jun 27, 2007 | Changing Ant in NetBeans | Kosol Tuanveeradej | kosolt at hotmail dot com | URL |
| May 02, 2007 | Accessing NetBeans Remotely from Solaris | Ada Li | Ada.Li at sun dot com | URL |
| Mar 02, 2007 | Running NetBeans on XGL | Mohammad Nabil Hussein | mohammad.nabil.h at gmail dot com | URL |
Editor
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| S. No. | Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| 02. | Nov 29, 2007 | Configure which editor (representative class) for new type extension | Jimmy Halim | jim dot halim at gmail dot com | URL |
| 01. | May 03, 2007 | Adding a Code Template for SLF4J | Brian Schlining | bschlining at gmail dot com | URL |
Version Control Systems
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| S. No. | Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| 04. | Nov 05, 2008 | NetBeans with newer Subversion client | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| 03. | Jan 17, 2008 | Creating a Remote Mercurial Repository | Frederic Jean | fred@fredjean.net | URL |
| 02. | Nov 15, 2007 | Challenges with NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2, Subversion, and Cygwin on Windows | Jamie Raut | jraut at csc dot com | URL |
| 01. | Sep 05, 2007 | Placing a NetBeans projects into CVS | Jeff Black | jblack at gestalt-llc dot com | URL |
Java SE
Swing GUI Builder
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| Apr 29, 2008 | Resizing Components in GUI Matisse Builder | Varun Nischal | nvarun@NetBeans.org | URL |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Communication Between JFrame Panels | Joseph B. Cotton | bcotton at dpscs dot state dot md dot us | URL |
Web & Java EE
Web Applications
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| Nov 04, 2008 | Debugging Cocoon 2.2 in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Image:Aug 03, 2008 | Add/Remove Sort Key from TableDataProvider Woodstock Components |
| nvarun AT NetBeans DOT org | URL |
| Nov 17, 2007 | Creating Ordinal Columns in Table Component | Luong Le | levanluong at gmail dot com | URL |
Web Services
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| S. No. | Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| 01. | May 22, 2008 | Creating a Java Client for Del.icio.us Web Services | Amit Kumar Saha | amitksaha@NetBeans.org | URL |
Dynamic Languages
Ruby
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| S. No. | Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| 03. | Jun 12, 2008 | Using a Stack with Ruby | John Muchow | jwmuchow at gmail dot com | URL |
| 02. | Jun 12, 2008 | Using a String as a File in Ruby | John Muchow | jwmuchow at gmail dot com | URL |
| 01. | Mar 13, 2008 | Dynamic jar loading in JRuby | Teera Kanokkanjanarat | http://teera-k.com | URL |
Plugin Manager
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| Dec 03, 2008 | Profiling Maven 2 Applications in Netbeans 6 | Andrew Harmel-Law | andrew dot harmel dot law at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 21, 2008 | Using NetBeans HTTP monitor with Jetty and Maven | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 06, 2008 | Getting Javadoc from Maven repositories | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Nov 06, 2008 | Getting sources from Maven repositories | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Show Maven Build Plan in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Use External Maven to work with Cocoon 2.2 | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Sep 28, 2008 | Shutdown Jetty started by Maven in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Image:Jul 30, 2008 | Auto-build maven2 projects in the correct order |
| kawazu <at> zimmer428 <dot> net | URL |
| Jun 13, 2008 | Hot Deployment of a Web Application with Maven in NetBeans | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| Feb 08, 2008 | Using Netbeans Matisse and Eclipse in parallel | Moritz Petersen | mail at moritzpetersen.de | URL |
SOA
WSDL & XML
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
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| Nov 26, 2008 | Code completion for XSLT 2.0 in NetBeans 6.5 | Hubert A Klein Ikkink | h.kleinikink at gmail dot com | URL |
| April 15, 2008 | DOM Tree scanner in NetBeans 6.1 Beta | Amit Kumar Saha | amitksaha@NetBeans.org | URL |
Platform
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| Date | Title of Contribution | Contributor | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2009 | Configure NetBeans using Batch Files.. | Varun Nischal | nvarun AT netbeans DOT org | URL |
| Jun 18, 2009 | Managing NetBeans Platforms | Varun Nischal | nvarun AT netbeans DOT org | URL |
| Image:Dec 24, 2008 | Create your own Platform versions |
| toni dot epple at eppleton dot de | URL |
| Image:Dec 24, 2008 | Fix Navigator Mode in NetBeans Platform Applications |
| toni dot epple at eppleton dot de | URL |
| Image:Dec 23, 2008 | NetBeans on USB Stick |
| toni dot epple at eppleton dot de | URL |
| Image:Dec 08, 2008 | Want to use GSF API's? |
| nvarun at netbeans dot org | URL |
| Image:Dec 08, 2008 | Fix External Web Browser in NetBeans Platform Application |
| toni dot epple at eppleton dot de | URL |
| Image:Oct 28, 2008 | Configure Clusters And Modules |
| nvarun at netbeans dot org | URL |
| Image:Oct 28, 2008 | Editor Windows Reactivated |
| nvarun at netbeans dot org | URL |
| Image:Aug 19, 2008 | Netbeans Platform Localization as Plugins | Tonny Kohar
| tonny@kiyut.com | URL |
| Image:Aug 19, 2008 | Netbeans Platform Standalone Module Branding tips | Tonny Kohar
| tonny@kiyut.com | URL |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Platform- Hacking Module's XML Layer in NetBeans (Part 2) | Varun Nischal | nvarun at NetBeans dot org | URL |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Platform- Hacking Module's XML Layer in NetBeans (Part 1) | Varun Nischal | nvarun at NetBeans dot org | URL |
| Feb 27, 2008 | File opening: EditorCookie or OpenCookie? | Damir Tesanovic | tdamir at gmail.com | URL |
| Feb 26, 2008 | How to attach source for Libraries (including Library Wrapper Modules) | Rubén Laguna | ruben.laguna at gmail.com | URL |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Netbeans Platform Ant based build system tricks | Tonny Kohar | tonny at kiyut dot com | URL |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Branding Updater Splash | Tonny Kohar | tonny at kiyut dot com | URL |
| Nov 01, 2007 | NetBeans Platform ClassLoader Trick | Tonny Kohar | tonny at kiyut dot com | URL |
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