[Building Sakai] support for netbeans

[Mark Norton]

As Aaron pointed out, you don't HAVE to use Eclipse, though many in 
Sakai do.  If you want to use NetBeans, download the Sakai source code 
and build it using Maven.  Then import the source code you need into 
NetBeans.  You're going to have to track down dependencies on JARs and 
bring them in manually, too.  That done, you should be able to use your 
IDE to edit and compile changes to the source.  However, I would 
STRONGLY advise that you run Maven outside of NetBeans (etc) to deploy 
your changed code before testing/debugging it.  There are things that 
happen in Maven that most IDEs won't know about, like deploying Sakai 
components.

In my work, I either use Eclipse (which is great once you get it all set 
up) or I edit the source files using a plain old text editor (I used 
TextPad) and then compile/deploy using Maven.  It's not as efficient as 
Eclipse (or another IDE) since I have to correct dumb syntax errors 
myself (rather than the IDE catching them when entered), but for small 
projects or quick changes, it can be much simpler than getting the whole 
IDE environment set up.  This is especially true when you work with 
multiple versions of Sakai or branches.

FWIW,
Mark Norton


Anuj Jain wrote:
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>     To; Sakai Developers,
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>     Can I use Netbeans IDE to setup source ver of Sakai ?
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>     if yes, please send me link to wiki.
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>     Cpw
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