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NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By : David Salter, Rhawi Dantas
Book Image

NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By: David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

Overview of this book

<p>From the start to the end of a Java project's lifecycle, this book will show you how to perform many key tasks with the NetBeans IDE, uncovering more about mobile, desktop, and enterprise Java along the way.</p> <p>You will start by creating Java projects and learning how to refactor and use NetBeans tools to increase developer efficiency. You will then get a walkthrough of how to create a desktop application before covering JavaFX and mobile applications and how to use external services within them. Having seen how to create many different types of applications, you will then be shown how to test and profile them before storing them in revision control systems such as Git or Subversion. Finally, you will learn how to extend NetBeans itself by adding new features to the IDE.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding mobile support to NetBeans


NetBeans 8 is not provided in a downloadable configuration that is explicitly available for the mobile application developer. The nearest preconfigured download is the All bundle, which includes all of the NetBeans tools ranging from those for the mobile developer to all of the tools required for an enterprise developer. Clearly, there's a need for the mobile developer to be able to install only the plugins they require without the need for additional unnecessary plugins.

Fortunately, it's a straightforward task to add mobile development support to the smallest NetBeans distribution—the Java SE download, as shown in this recipe.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you need to have downloaded and installed either the Java SE or Java EE download bundles of NetBeans.

How to do it…

The first step in adding mobile development support into NetBeans is to download a suitable Java ME SDK. Let's now download the Java ME 3.4 SDK and configure it within NetBeans using...