#114 Using Netbeans with Dr. Java

[Lalit Gidwani]

I have downloaded the source code for DrJava and have
been successful in building the DrJava package.
However, I would like to work with the source code in
NetBeans. Do you have any suggestions on moving the
project to Netbeans?

The approach I will take shortly seems to be quite
tedious as I will have to create a copy of each
directory of the DrJava source code manually

Sincerely

Lalit Gidwani

[Robert Cartwright]

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I am not familiar with the NetBeans project facility. A
DrJava project is simply a Java source tree in the file
system. (DrJava keeps a list of the full names of each file
in the tree, but in normal usage all of the files in the
source tree are part of the project.) So you can use
whatever mechanism NetBeans provides for creating a project
from an existing source tree. In DrJava, all that you have
do is create a project (file) in the root of the source tree
project and then open the sourceroot directory (with the
"open folders recursively" box checked). DrJava will
automatically populate the project with the files in the
sourcetree. Perhaps NetBeans has a similar feature.

I use DrJava exclusively to edit the DrJava code base. I
also use DrJava to compile the project (and individual
project files) in some situations. Of course, the build.xml
file in our CVS tree includes ant scripts for fully
compiling the project to both Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 class files.

[Robert Cartwright]

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user_id=430590

I am not familiar with the NetBeans project facility. A
DrJava project is simply a Java source tree in the file
system. (DrJava keeps a list of the full names of each file
in the tree, but in normal usage all of the files in the
source tree are part of the project.) So you can use
whatever mechanism NetBeans provides for creating a project
from an existing source tree. In DrJava, all that you have
do is create a project (file) in the root of the source tree
project and then open the sourceroot directory (with the
"open folders recursively" box checked). DrJava will
automatically populate the project with the files in the
sourcetree. Perhaps NetBeans has a similar feature.

I use DrJava exclusively to edit the DrJava code base. I
also use DrJava to compile the project (and individual
project files) in some situations. Of course, the build.xml
file in our CVS tree includes ant scripts for fully
compiling the project to both Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 class files.