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We are still alive, the project is not dead. Come on, cheer up! Its time to get yourself updated about this program.

You already know that, NetBeans Team along with Community Members provide lots of FAQs over NetBeans Wiki. You should also know that, we have added a section on two wikis maintained by NetBeans Team, i.e. User FAQs and Developer FAQs.

Visit this section on NetBeans User FAQs and NetBeans Developer FAQs, for more details.

General Eclipse Import Guide for NetBeans 6.5

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/import-eclipse.html provides some useful background information for Eclipse users to import their projects into NetBeans.

This document is a good read for the specific scenarios dealt in the documents at http://wiki.netbeans.org/EclipseToNetBeans which is a NetBeans Community Docs sub-project.

Previous updates on the project are available at http://amitksaha.blogspot.com/search/label/eclipse-to-netbeans

EclipseToNetBeans

We had started the EclipseToNetBeans project last year because we wanted to show Eclipse folks that the transition could be smooth- that the curve won't be steep.

The Eclipse project importer plugin has been enhanced (http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/enhanced_eclipse_project_importer_plugin) and boasts of features such as:

• Synchronization of changes after the import. NetBeans project created as a result of import keeps a reference to its Eclipse source. Any relevant change in Eclipse project (at the moment only classpath is monitored) is automatically propagated to NetBeans project during project opening or can be explicitly requested via project's popup menu (Synchronize With Eclipse). In future this may be extended to propagate changes done in NetBeans back to Eclipse
• Eclipse Dynamic Web project can be imported now
• Eclipse user defined libraries are imported to NetBeans library catalogue
• Eclipse user defined variables are setup in NetBeans
• Test source roots are detected
• Compiler options are imported
• JDK configuration is imported
• and lot of bugfixes

So, this is good news for us- as we have more scenarios to cover and thus more docs to write.

We also need people to update the existing documents with Eclipse Ganymede and NetBeans 6.5.

Drop me a word.

Visit the project here at: http://wiki.netbeans.org/EclipseToNetBeans

Migrating Docs!

Hi all,

We have been planning for a sub-docs project for the past few days, and after the success of EclipseToNetBeans, its time to help our own community to migrate from older IDE's to present one...

I came across a Dzone article recently, where someone has shared his experience of migrating a 5.5.1 Java Application TO 6.1 IDE! He had some issues, within the positioning of the components, etc.

So, it would really good, if we could think on those lines and help such users to migrate from older IDE's to current IDE's, as NB IDE is the fastest developing IDE, so to keep pace with it, we also have to strive forward.

NetBeans Community Docs (main project)

• EclipseToNetBeans (existing)
• Platform Migration (new one)
  

We were thinking of helping platform developers to migrate from the older to current version. We would like to have your suggestions, whether its fine to go with Platform OR should we consider more domains?

Hey,

This doesn't mean that we have stopped the other migration project, its still running and willing to get more contributions. So, what are you waiting for?

Come, join us and revolutionize!!!