Automatically generating source and doc jars in Netbeans

Question

Is there a way to automatically generate source and javadoc jars in Netbeans? Ideally I would like to place jars of my source and JavaDoc in the dist folder each time i buil

Answer 1

I tried the following on NetBeans IDE 7.2 and it works (assuming that the project name is MyProject)

1. go to the MyProject directory

2. open build.xml file in a text editor

3. add the following lines under the line :

4. go to nbproject folder and open the project.properties file in a text editor

5. edit the name of the output binary file (set to the project name.jar by default): # This directory is removed when the project is cleaned: dist.dir=dist dist.jar=${dist.dir}/**MyProject-binaries**.jar

6. save and build project.

Hope it works with you too.