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Apache NetBeans 26

Java Infrastructure Developer’s guide (AKA Concepts & HowTos)

Concepts
How Tos
Tutorials

Concepts

The Javac phases

Trees, Elements, Types and Tokens

Conversions between trees and elements and types…

Integration with the IDE

Getting to the javac information = writting a java infrastructure task

Registering/running tasks

The ElementHandle

The TreePathHandle

Source files vs. Class Files

Class Files vs. Signature Files

How Tos

How to setup a module which uses the Java related APIs

How do I Get into the Javac Context for a File?

How do I Get All Methods/Fields/Constructors of a Class?

How do I do modification to a source file?

How to work with TreeMaker

TreeMaker difficulties, Questions & Answers

How do I get an ElementHandle if all I have is the Project and the class name?

How do I get a list of libraries/dependencies of a project?

How do I get the source location of a wrapped jar?

How do I get the packages contained in a jar/library/dependency?

Tutorials

https://netbeans.apache.org/tutorials/nbm-copyfqn.html

https://netbeans.apache.org/tutorials/nbm-code-generator.html

https://netbeans.apache.org/tutorials/nbm-java-hint.html

http://netbeans.org/projects/platform/sources/platform-content/content/trunk/tutorials/60/nbm-whichelement.html?raw=true