Created attachment 30229 [details] svn diff: changes to build.xml I started work on this task at the late in 2011, with some discussion on the dev list, i.e. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-dev/201112.mbox/%3C4EFD25B0.6050204@pingtoo.com%3E Every now and then I've improved the support on my own netbeans system, but finally decided to try packaging the local changes so they would be appropriate for other users. It has been a frustrating task, and I have not yet achieved my objective. However, I have produced a fairly large change that works - subject to some limitations. Further improvements are quite difficult for me because there isn't anything in the repository for me to revert to! I would like to have my current set of changes committed to the repository. They are intended to be transparent to anyone who doesn't use netbeans, and are optional for netbeans users. The change comprises several parts: 0. Netbeans reserves the subdirectory ${basedir}/nbproject for its local files. A svn ignore for this directory was committed more than a year ago, and is a pre-requisite for my change. 1. In line with Konstantin's suggestions, I need a new directory added to the source tree, called ${basedir}/res/ide-support/netbeans 2. I need to make two neutral changes to build.xml: 2.1. A new property that defines the invariant nbproject directory path. 2.2. A set of netbeans-specific tasks to install the new res templates into the local nbproject directory for an individual user. (Analogous to the existing ide-eclipse target). 3. A new collection of five template files to be committed to the res/ide-support/netbeans directory. These files will be installed by the new ide-netbeans build target. 3.1. One of these files is a README which explains how to use the new support, and its current limitations. I expect to replicate this information into the appropriate section of the wiki. 3.2. Project.xml "wires" the tomcat Free-Form project, associating ide actions to ant targets, and also providing classpaths for syntax checking and code completion. 3.3. nb-tomcat.xml defines additional ant targets that are only applicable to the netbeans workbench, such as debugging a single unit test class. 3.4. Two properties files, one relevant to both syntax-checking and ide targets, and the other only relevant to the ide targets. 4. Checkstyle passes all my changes, although I am not convinced that my copyright notices are appropriate. However, checkstyle does not like a file called nbproject/private/private.xml. This is created and maintained by netbeans. I think there should be an exclusion rule for checkstyle to ignore either the whole of nbproject, or at least nbproject/private/*. I hope this proposed change is not too controversial.
Created attachment 30230 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/README
Created attachment 30231 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/project.xml
Created attachment 30232 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/nb-tomcat.xml
Created attachment 30233 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/nb-tomcat-project.properties
Created attachment 30234 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/nb-tomcat-build.properties
Comment on attachment 30229 [details] svn diff: changes to build.xml Correct MIME type
Comment on attachment 30230 [details] New file: res/ide-support/netbeans/README Fix MIME type
Thanks for the patch. Applied to trunk.