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Introduction

This document describes how to work the current NetBeans website(s) http://www.netbeans.org and http://platform.netbeans.org (and others possibly added later) into the new site being developed for the move to Apache. The new site has a specific look and feel which we would like to keep uniform. One of the rules at Apache is the site can not have a "back end server" other than 3rd party services such as discuss and mailing lists etc as this imposes things in infra which they can not afford to manage at this time, so a static site generator (SSG) will be used to allow for templates, writing, and blog style editing.

This is a pattern used by other projects at the ASF. Groovy as an example wrote their own. This document describes the site layout, how to use the SSG JBake in this context, a set of Gradle build files, and set of JSoup dependent Groovy scripts used to crop or scrape document content from existing pages to be placed into content files which get embedded in the new web site. Eventually the Groovy scripts will no longer be needed, and should go away; they are essentially tools for now.

Envisioned Generated Site Layout

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