This year, the NetBeans France Community decided to make the NetBeans Day France 2017 in Grenoble City, at the 7th of February. The event was hosted by Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, Grenoble Alpes University. The planning of the event: Welcome and overview of the day (Geertjan Wielenga, NetBeans) Session 1: Eclipse Vert.x & OpenShift (Clément Escoffier, Red Hat) Session 2: Enterprise JavaScript Development with Oracle JET (Geertjan Wielenga, NetBeans) Session 3: Playing with Spring Boot & Docker (Nebrass Lamouchi, Davidson SI) Session 4: JBoss Forge, WildFly and Java EE (Emmanuel Hugonnet, Red Hat) Some pictures from the event:...

This week, I tried the “Self Paced Online” courses provided by the Docker Community. These courses were built by many mentors & Docker experts, covering many basic & advanced Docker concepts. The offered courses: Developer - Beginner Linux Containers This tutorial will guide you through the steps involved in setting up your computer, running your first containers, deploying a web application with Docker and running a multi-container voting app with Docker Compose....

In this tutorial you will learn how to write a Java EE application using two of the trendiest technologies: Spring Boot and Docker in NetBeans IDE. Spring Boot is an innovative project that aims to make it easy to create Spring applications by simplifying the configuration and deployment actions through its convention over configuration based setup. Docker is an open source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers....

When securing systems, two elements of security are important: authentication and authorization. Though the two terms mean different things, they are sometimes used interchangeably because of their respective roles in application security. Get started with the fundamentals of web authentication and authorization using Apache Shiro Framework. Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Learn how to use Shiro in a JavaEE7 application and how to use it in a web application....

I’m excited to announce that I have been accepted to be a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, the team of highly skilled and passionate Java developers & NetBeans users. I’m so happy to be a member of such great team. It was one of my big dreams. Presentation of the NetBeans Dream Team The NetBeans Dream Team is a community-driven group of highly skilled NetBeans users and contributors. They participate at NetBeans developer events, on mailing lists and developer forums, providing new, interesting and informative content as well as developing new and creative ways to promote NetBeans....

NetBeans Day Paris, for the first time in France, held on the October 16th, 2015. It was a very nice opportunity to meet NetBeans users and developers in Paris Area. My presentation is a live coding session showing how to make a sample app from scratch on NetBeans, using many trendy technologies and APIs: IDE: NetBeans 8.0.2 Server: Payara Server 4.1.153 Backend: Java EE 7 [JPA 2.1, EJB 3.2, CDI 1....

Today I finished reading the Beginning NetBeans IDE for Java Developers, a masterpiece written by Geertjan Wielenga, a product manager in the NetBeans Team, and published by Apress (August, 2015). To make your work a masterpiece, first master the tools of your work. -— Chinese adage The book covers all its subjects in only 280 pages, which is interesting! No painfully long introductions and debriefings. Instead, it has only the content that actually matters....