Warning
This is a very draft version.
In the following it is explained how you can initialisation you module during the start-up phase of the application or if you need to clean up some allocated resources when you module is shutdown.
import org.openide.modules.OnStart; import org.openide.modules.OnStop; import org.openide.windows.OnShowing; import java.util.concurrent.Callable; public class Module { private Module() { } @OnStart public static class StartOp implements Runnable { @Override public void run() { } } @OnShowing() public static class ShowingOp implements Runnable { @Override public void run() { } } @OnStop public static class MaybeStopOp implements Callable { @Override public Boolean call() { return Boolean.TRUE; } @OnStop public static class StopOp implements Runnable { @Override public void run() { } }
In your maven pom file you will need the following NetBeans dependencies
<dependency> // needed for the @OnStart and @OnStop annotations <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> <artifactId>org-openide-modules</artifactId> <version>RELEASE802</version> </dependency> <dependency> // needed for the @OnShowing annotation <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> <artifactId>org-openide-windows</artifactId> <version>RELEASE802</version> </dependency>