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Re: Netbeans IDE 5.5 with mevenide

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:18:23 -0400

Salut,

Adam Duston wrote:
> Jean-Francois,
>
> When coding in Java I am an Eclipse user but, for the first time
> today, I installed NetBeans and compiled Grizzly with the mevenide
> plugin. Since I recorded my steps along the way, I think I may have
> inadvertently won myself a t-shirt.

:-) :-)

  Uh, i should mention that the
> instructions are pretty brief, so maybe I omitted something.
>
> At any rate, I notice that the tutorials on java.net have a particular
> style, e.g. https://grizzly.dev.java.net/tutorials/findBugs-nb-tutorial/index.html
> . When I submit my tutorial, should I format it any way? Should I use
> the CSS from java.net and submit it in HTML format?

You can use the CSS but since the tutorials are inside the "java.net
template", I suspect you will get it for free. Charlie, did you have to
do anything special for the tutorial mentioned below?

We need more tutorial like that! Small and direct to the point.

Thanks

-- Jeanfrancois


>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
> p.s. Here are the steps I recorded:
>
> 1. Install Netbeans. On Ubuntu, this is totally easy: just install the
> Netbeans package. You will have to download the .tgz file from
> netbeans.org; just read the instructions that come with the package.
>
> 2. In NetBeans, go to Tools->Update Center, hit Next, and install the
> Subversion plugin.
>
> 3. Go to Subversion->Checkout, then enter the Grizzly svn URL:
> https://grizzly.dev.java.net/svn/grizzly/trunk . You'll need a
> username/password to access svn, of course; just register at
> dev.java.net. Unlike Subclipse, you won't know how far the svn
> checkout has gotten at any point in time because there is no progress
> bar. Sorry about that!
>
> 4. When I got to this point, I hadn't yet installed the mevenide
> plugin for Netbeans. Had I installed it, it is possible that the
> Grizzly Project would have opened. But, since it wasn't installed, the
> only Grizzly module that is packaged as a Netbeans project --
> grizzlypex -- opened. If only grizzlypex opens for you, then just
> close this project.
>
> 5. Follow these instructions to install the mevenide:
> http://mevenide.codehaus.org/m2-site/mevenide2-netbeans/installation.html
> . Note: do *NOT* use the .zip file install; it will install an old
> version. Instead follow the instructions under "Install using the
> Netbeans Update Center".
>
> 6. Now you should be able to open the trunk folder as a project in the
> Netbeans IDE. Just choose File->Open Project... and then select the
> trunk folder. This will open all the Grizzly modules as maven projects
> in the IDE, with "Grizzly Project" in bold. To build, simply
> right-click on "Grizzly Project" and choose "Build". Voila!
>
>