DevOps
From APIDesign
Wikipedia defines DevOps as those people who unify software development and software operations and try to automate as much as possible. This essay is a note that reflects the NetBeans history from the DevOps point of view.
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NetBeans and Command Line
Since version 4.0 (released in 2005) the NetBeans IDE focused on support for external build tools. The first one was Apache Ant. You could create a project in the IDE and in addition to the configuration files, also a build.xml Ant script was created. As a result one could go to command line and type:
$ ant build
and the command line did the same thing as the IDE! I'd say that was a revolutionary step, but it grow for deep Jesse's experience - he knew how hard it was to configure Hudson (or how the continuous build system of that time used to be called - cron?). With NetBeans it was easy: Generate your project and your automatic build script is ready.
Isn't this a dream for a DevOps lover?
Two Way Editing
Just Set the Classpath Up
TBD: Other IDEs and the old version.