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 ...

Don't know if this will work for your situation, and I'm not familiar with NetBeans, but the far more common, practical, and flexible approach is to write a build script (ant, maven, bash, perl ...

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 ...

NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own ...