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Creating a Project Type

Posted by n_varun on December 21, 2008 at 3:40 AM PST

Nov 15, 2008
I began a blog series on my learnings of NetBeans API’s, interacting with experienced folks on the mailing lists and browsing through NetBeans sources, that might help me (possibly others as well) "Create a New Project Type" in NetBeans IDE.

Dec 16, 2008
One month later, I could find some time to document my further learnings, by blogging about "Adding Category and Projects". This was a short post, but has many useful pointers for a beginner like me to learn and understand the integration of Project Types in NetBeans Platform.

Dec 19, 2008
Three days later, I wrote the follow-up blog about "Templates", yes the one’s shown in "New File" action invoked on any node of a project’s Logical View (Projects Window).

Next; I will dig deep into the Platform again, its been a month since I have surfed the sources… By the way, many community members are showing interest in creating a project type, hope to see them documenting their experience soon...

See ya, until next time. Stay tuned to my blog...

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I would discourage you from creating your own project types. It's a *lot* of work that is hard to make right and for most usecases you shall be able to extend the existing ones anyway..

Hmmm, but as per my latest entry, there are few community members showing interest and have already started working on that. As for my case, I had stopped doing so few days back, because I won't find enough time to devote on this anymore... As you suggested, its lot of work, I do agree, but I feel it might depend on kind of layout, one thinks to work upon. Isn't it?