This directory contains project configuration files for Apache NetBeans IDE. As an alternative to opening the Gradle project, NetBeans users can open the Ant project provided in this directory. This alternative is provided because NetBeans 18 does not support well Module Source Hierarchy in Gradle projects. This directory may be removed in a future version if NetBeans support of Gradle is improved to the point where Module Source Hierarchy become well supported.
Apache Ivy must be downloaded. Linux users can do that with their package manager, for example by executing dnf install apache-ivy on the command line. The path to ivy.jar must be specified to NetBeans Ant configuration. The menu can be found there (NetBeans 18):
If Ivy was installed by a Linux package manager, the path to declare may be /usr/share/java/ivy.jar.
JavaFX must be downloaded (that GPL dependency is optional when using the Gradle build, but this directory is a non-official workaround for developing SIS in NetBeans). The nbproject/private/private.properties file must be edited with the addition of a javafx.module.path property like below (replace ${PATH_TO_FX}/lib by the actual path to the directory containing the JAR files):
javafx.module.path=${PATH_TO_FX}/lib
If developing on the geoapi-3.1 or geoapi-4.0 branch instead of main, then gradle compileJava should be executed on the command-line before to open the NetBeans project, in order to install the right GeoAPI development snapshot. This step is not necessary if developing on the main branch.
We did not found yet how to get the tests running. For running some tests in NetBeans, create a separated NetBeans project with a main method invoking the actual method to test. This is not convenient, but we hope that it will become simpler in the future if Gradle and NetBeans support of Module Source Hierarchy is gradually improved.
NetBeans upgrades causes the nbproject/build-impl.xml file to be overwritten. When it happens, the new file should be manually edited as below:
<javac …/> task, replace the source attribute by release and remove the target attribute.