Oh, and on the libraries node in the project properties tree I have an
option "Build projects on classpath" - should that be enabled or not?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:40, Wildam Martin <mwil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> it is starting to become a headache for me. I have some projects that
> automatically do a clean & build removing my existing javadoc and I
> have projects that sometimes need to be built twice to build without
> errors (usually problems with symbols not found).
>
> I have quite modularized architecture with several different libraries
> and plugin technologies. I usually specify the project folder in
> Project Properties->Libraries which always shows that it uses the
> compiled files from the dist folder.
>
> I noticed that some older projects have different (default) settings
> for "compile on save" and "track java dependencies". So at this point
> I have a mixture. :-(
>
> I searched the net and found a strange recommendation at:
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/CompileOnSave#J2SE_Projects
>
>> In particular, the following changes are proposed to the J2SE project 
>> properties:
>>    * remove "Track Java Dependencies" checkbox from the Build/Compiling tab
>>    * add "Enable Quick Run" checkbox to the Run tab
>
> Why should I turn the tracking off for J2SE projects (I would rather
> have expected to better turn it off for JEE projects...) and what the
> hack is "Enable Quick Run" - I can't find that.
>
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqCompileOnSave
> is even more irritating to me as I don't really understand now, how
> the whole compile and build process works (I even don't use maven so
> it should be easier). When I debug everything is compiled differently
> then when building? - Then why does NetBeans prevent me often from
> building saying that already compiled because compile-on-save is on.
> Either documentation must be wrong (or just missleading - that is also
> possible) or NetBeans has bugs or it is just my "misconfiguration".
>
> Primary question: How should I have my project settings for "compile
> on save" and "Track Java dependencies" - and should I rather create a
> library in netbeans adding the jars in dist and link directly to that
> instead of linking directly the project? (I am doing Java SE only).
>
> --
> Martin Wildam
>
> http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam
>



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