How to check out and then build Felix with in Netbeans

In this how-to we go over the process of checking out and then building Felix from source all from with in the NetBeans IDE.

Required Software:

1. NetBeans 6.1 - You can get NetBeans Here
2. Subversion command line client - NetBeans uses the subversion command line client for its subversion integration. You can get the subversion command line client here or if you are working on a Unix machine it will most likely be in your os's package repository.
3. NetBeans Maven plugin - You can install this from with in NetBeans by selecting Tools->Plugins then choose the Maven plugin from the Available Plugins tab and press the Install button on the bottom of the dialog. For a good introduction of what you can do with this plugin see MavenBestPractices on the NetBeans wiki.
4. Maven - You will also need a local install of maven to complete this how-to as well. You can find maven here
   
   

   Why do we need maven

   The NetBeans Maven plugin comes prepackaged with Maven so why do we need a local copy of Maven? The version of Maven that comes prepackaged with NetBeans is 2.1-SNAPSHOOT which currently has issues building Felix so we need a copy of the current release version of Maven installed locally so we can use that instead.

Check out Felix

From NetBeans main menu select Versioning->Subversion->Checkout as shown in Figure1