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 > -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.