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Customizing The NetBeans BluePrints Solution Catalog : Adding Your Own BluePrints

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posted Tuesday, 24 January 2006
I work in the Partner Area of Sun and one of things that partners like system intergrators and ISVs want to do is customize NetBeans for their own purposes. NetBeans Java Blueprint Solutions Catalog is a best practices solution that embeds best practices into the NetBeans IDE.  It is accessible from the help menu (see it here) and you can choose a topic to study from a dropdown menu (see here) and brings up the Blueprint content with three tabs (Solution, Design and Example (see it here ).  After reading a Blueprint if you want to use it as a NetBeans
NetBeans Java BluePrints
The Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog is a set of best practices embedded into NetBeans.  If you want you can add to those best practices.
project you can select the Example tab  and it will install the example as a NetBeans project (see it here).  The BluePrints Solutions Catalog comes to life as  you can not only read it but also create a NetBeans Project with it.   Incidentally, the BluePrints project is at
Select to visit the NetBeans BluePrints Solution Catalog Site.
 http://java.net.  If you are using NetBeans you don't even have to leave the IDE to not only read it - but also generate a project.  

One area I have been looking at very closely is the NetBeans Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog and how it relates to SIs, ISVs and generally IT. My question has been "if I am building an app on top of the NetBeans platform or on top of NetBeans IDE,  how do I put my own set of BluePrints and Project Templates into the NetBeans BluePrints ?" 
Thanks to Yutaka Yoshida for his help in understanding how one can go about including their own customized version of the BluePrints Catalog. I had no idea how to go about doing this prior to his information - at least now I have a clue. Yutaka  Yutaka actually related three different ways to do this.  The simplest way is the following :
> Install Netbeans.
> Unjar :
${NB_install_dir}/enterprise[1,2]/modules/org-netbeans-modules-j2ee-blueprints.jar
Note : enterprise[1, 2] is depending on the version of netbeans
> Put custom documents and applications there.
> Edit the two property files for the new projects.
> Edit the two config xml files.
> Create jar.
> Replace the original jar with the new jar.

Very useful.
 

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