Getting Started with OpenJDK in NetBeans IDE?

[Dave Bristor]

Hi Peter,

Peter B. West wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> I've reposted your reply to the nbusers message I posted.
> 
> I was using NB 5.5.1. The page at
> http://nb-openjdk.netbeans.org/get-and-build.html
> doesn't mention that. It links to NB6M9 (not M10), but if you already
> have NB installed you're not going to follow that link.

I'll see about having the get-and-build page updated to explicitly mention 
that NB6 is required.

> I've now installed M10, and the projects are visible.
> 
> I wrote and tested (in another package space) an implementation of RFE
> 6410729 Add BitSet.previousClearBit, previousSetBit and posted the
> results in the JDK-collaboration/dev forum on 2007-05-06, but have had
> no responses. I think I must be missing something in the procedure for
> handling these things. Advice on this would be appreciated.

The "contribute" page at
     http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
should steer you in the right direction.  core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net might 
be the right list.

> I seem to have lost the description of setting up personal NetBeans
> projects within JDK7. I recall a discussion of cloning and modifying one
> of the existing projects when setting up a Java-only project, and the
> example used was Collections. That's exactly what I need; in fact, a
> subset of Collections. Can you point me in the right direction for doing
> this?

See
     j2se/make/netbeans/README
in the openjdk source bundle.

Thanks,
	Dave
> 
> Thanks
> Peter
> 
> 
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>Your emails to nbusers have been forwarded to me.  I worked on the
> 
> NetBeans projects for OpenJDK, and hope to help resolve your issues.
> But I need more information.
> 
>>First, the best place for these questions is to
>>    nb-projects-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>
>>On to the issues:
>>
>>Peter, are you using NetBeans 6?  I ask because when I use NetBeans
> 
> 5.5 to open a project (jarzip) I see the "???" instead of the name.
> NetBeans 6 is *required*.  If you are using NetBeans 6 and see the
> problem, can you tell me exactly what steps you are doing to cause the
> problem?
> 
>>Sang, I'm not clear on your issue: you say "having the same problem"
> 
> but then say "For NetBeans 6, at least I don't see this problem", so I'm
> a little confused.  Then you say "having a problem to build."  Could you
> be more specific as to the nature of the "problem to build"?
> 
>>Thanks,
>>    Dave
>>