Building with Ant
The NetBeans IDE can be built with
Ant, a build framework written
in Java and driven by XML build scripts. You can get Ant at
http://ant.apache.org/.
The NetBeans build system is tested against the Ant 1.7.0 release (for NB 6.0 and later),
or the 1.6.5 release for NB 5.x,
or the 1.6.2 release for NB 4.1,
or the 1.6.1 release for NetBeans 3.6 and 4.0.
3.6, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 builds use JDK 1.4.2 (1.4.2_09 currently recommended);
dev builds use JDK 5 (1.5.0_06 recommended).
Quick Start
Running a basic build using Ant is not very complicated. If you are doing
it for the first time, read the quick start guide with step-by-step instructions.
Quick Start with Ant
Gory Details
For more customized builds, you can read
all
the details of how the Ant build system works and what options for customizing
it are available.
WARNING: may be out of date, so cross-check any details.
