When using the NetBeans New Project wizard to create a Java Application project, one gets an Ant-compliant build.xml file as the main project build file, but most of the real work is delegated to ...

The editor also supplies start-up coding templates for new Ant, Java Applet, Java Application, JSP and other starting file types, including several Java GUI and JUnit test types. Strangely, projects ...

Ant, from the Jakarta Apache Project, is a platform independent Java-based build tool. Ant started off as an internal component of Tomcat, the servlet container that is used in the reference ...

NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

I am looking to convert a Netbeans project to an Eclipse project. Unfortunately the project must truly open and be managed by Eclipse in this situation and I cannot rely on an external ANT script ...

The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen ...