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Using NetBeans For

Your Existing Projects

Tim Boudreau

Senior Staff EngineerSun Microsystems

tboudreau@sun.com

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Agenda Introduction

Building Software

About NetBeans Projects

Automated Project Import

Manual Project ImportMaven

Conclusion

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GoalsBecome friends with the NetBeans

project system

Learn how projects can be importedinto 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 buildingJava code XML-based config files

Maven Ant++ - solves the libraries

problem

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NetBeans projects

Ant-based projects

Project file: build.xmlCan be extended

Ant tightly integrated

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Two Project TypesRegular 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 ImportGood 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 importUsing regular projects

Create a New Project with Existing

Sources Let NetBeans generate build.xml

Using free-form projects

Create a New Project with Existing AntScript

Reuse existing build.xml

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Using Multiple IDEs

Regardless of how you get your

project into NetBeans

It's harmless and easy to stilluse those other IDEs

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Apache MavenGet 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

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NetBeans Ready

Documented examples on usingNetBeans with well-known open sourceprojects

Tomcat, Ant, JUnit, ...

Apply the concepts to your own project

Add to the Wish List Contribute

http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/

NetbeansReady

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Did you know...?

There are Hibernate, Wicket and Springplug-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 andemacs

Maven is well integrated

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/vi-integration.htmlhttp://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/vi-integration.html

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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 Eclipseusers not to try NetBeans :-)

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Using NetBeans ForYour Existing Projects