As promised, here's a recap of a simple module I built to help me test a bugfix.
There is a feature in NetBeans which allows any FileObject (including files in your project) to be served up by an embedded HTTP server. It is exposed by the API method URLMapper.findURL(FileObject, URL_TYPE). URL_TYPE may be one of three values:
INTERNAL: results in nbres://foo
EXTERNAL: results in file:/foo...
Other folks have been blogging about the new support for NetBeans module development in the 5.0 stream. However, as the guy who put together the "cluster build harness" for (unofficially) supporting module development in 4.1, I just thought I'd chime in with my own words of praise.
If I were starting a project based on the netbeans platform now, I would not use my cluster build harness. I'd...
In a previous entry, I vented my frustration at scrambled JARs in the netbeans build process.
Well, they're gone.
I'd like to think I had some small part to play in that. I probably didn't, but I'll go on thinking I did :)
