Td Mxc Netbeans Boudreau

Using NetBeans For Your Existing Projects Tim Boudreau Senior Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems [email protected]

Agenda ● Introduction ● Building Software ● About NetBeans Projects ● Automated Project Import ● Manual Project Import ● Maven ● Conclusion 2

Goals ● Become friends with the NetBeans

project system ● Learn how projects can be imported

into NetBeans ● Learn how NetBeans can be used

alongside other IDEs

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Building Software

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Building Software ● When programs were a single file? ● - Just compile it ● - Use your IDE to do its own thing ● Then there was Make ● - Make is evil ● Ant – the de-facto standard for building

Java code – XML-based config files ● Maven – Ant++ - solves the libraries

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NetBeans projects ● Ant-based projects ● Project file: build.xml ● Can be extended ● Ant tightly integrated

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Two Project Types ● Regular projects ● Free-form projects ● If you can, use regular projects ● Much easier, setup free ● Default file structure ● The IDE takes care of build.xml

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Automated Import ● Good news for Java SE projects

created with JBuilder or Eclipse: ● We have project importers ● Available on the update center ● They create the build.xml file ● Works for Java SE Projects

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Manual import ● Using regular projects ● Create a New Project with Existing

Sources ● Let NetBeans generate build.xml

● Using free-form projects ● Create a New Project with Existing Ant

Script ● Reuse existing build.xml 9

Using Multiple IDEs Regardless of how you get your project into NetBeans It's harmless and easy to still use those other IDEs

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Apache Maven ● Get the Maven Module from Tools >

Plugins ● ● Open any Maven project in NetBeans ● - No NB-specific metadata ● - No special set-up ● - It just uses Maven in-place 11

NetBeans Ready ● Documented examples on using

NetBeans with well-known open source projects ● Tomcat, Ant, JUnit, ... ● Apply the concepts to your own project ● Add to the Wish List ● Contribute ● http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/

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Did you know...? ● There are Hibernate, Wicket and Spring

plug-ins for NetBeans ● There is a vi plug-in for NetBeans ● The NetBeans 6 Editor is on par with

Eclipse ● NetBeans has keybindings for Eclipse and

emacs ● Maven is well integrated 13

Conclusion ● There are tools that help with project setup ● Free-form projects and Maven are

interesting for some scenarios ● You can use NetBeans in a multi-IDE

environment ● There is no longer a reason for Eclipse

users not to try NetBeans :-)

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Using NetBeans For Your Existing Projects