[PATCH] Re: IDE Developers' guide

[Brian Ewins <Br...@i-documentsystems.com>]

Small changes to the 'getinvolved' and 'source' pages to make it easier 
to find info on contributing patches. Out of curiosity I did this 
completely within netbeans - it was a surprisingly simple and pleasant 
point-and-click experience.

As for the Ant/Maven stuff, You might want to link to 
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/ide.html, I'll write up 'How to use 
Maven in Netbeans' as a patch to the Maven docs and let you know if/when 
it appears[1]. Using Maven with Eclipse is easier, Maven has an Eclipse 
plugin.

Since someone asked, the link above links to a page describing using Ant 
with JDE+XEmacs (I know because thats what I use!). You need to 
customize jde-build-function and set it to jde-ant-build, also setting 
'JDE Ant Enable Find' is useful - it lets ant use '-f build.xml' so you 
won't get asked where the build file is. M-x customize-apropos jde gives 
you all the options. For using Maven under XEmacs, I just do M-x 
compile, with command maven -Ebf project.xml. I also have this in my 
init.el:
(setq compilation-error-regexp-alist
  '("^\\(.+\\.java\\):\\([0-9]+\\):" 1 2))

(this lets XEmacs/Win32 parse sun javac error messages as produced from 
Maven, and opens the files referenced correctly)

-Baz

[1] For the intrigued/impatient, the skinny with no flowery words: 
create a 'Maven Compiler' in Compiler types based on External Javac 
compilation, the command it runs is C:\Program Files\maven\bin\maven.bat 
{debuginfo} {deprecation} {optimize} -Ed "C:\projects\portalizer"  
java:jar  (yes, unfortunately you need to put in the project dir at the 
mo), and in the Expert tab set the environment variables 
JAVA_HOME={jdk.home}, MAVEN_HOME= C:\Program Files\maven, also the 
debug/deprecation/optimize tag replacements are -Dmaven.compile.debug, 
-D maven.compile.deprecation, -D maven.compile.optimize. You can now hit 
F9 to compile with Maven, and netbeans correctly recognizes the error 
messages - pretty basic but it will let you build eg Turbine. I know 
dion, one of the Maven authors, uses NB so maybe he has better integration.


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