NetBeans Plugin for Scala

Index

1. Common Informations
2. Where to start?
3. Community
4. Snapshot Builds
5. Build Instructions
6. Project Details

Common Informations

This is a plugin of the Netbeans Platform for the scala language. It targets version 2.9.x. In the case of a maven scala project, no local installation of scala is needed. It enables syntax checking, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, pretty formatter, occurrences mark, brace matching, indentation, code folding, function navigator, go to declaration, project management and a shell console. It's is specially useful if you are a maven user.

Where to start ?

The project central point is https://github.com/dcaoyuan/nbscala. There are some other places, where the project was hosted before, but they are abandoned now.

Community

Until recently, this has mostly been a one man project. Some patches were supplied by different people, but I'm still convinced that it will gather a community soon. For questions and bug reports use the issue tracker. If interested in joining the project, you can write me directly or send patches/pull requests.

Snapshot Builds

Snapshot builds can be found here http://sourceforge.net/projects/erlybird. I'm using sourceforge because of their supply of higher bandwidth.

Installation

Make sure you don't have an old version installed. (Check your netbeans installation for a 'nbscala' directory: if it exists, delete it.)

1. Download the latest release at sourceforge.
2. Extract all files into a directory.
3. Start Netbeans.
4. Select Tools -> Plugins -> Downloaded -> Add Plugins...
5. Select all extracted files.
6. Accept the licence and the installation of unsigned plugins.

Build Instructions

Cause of the smale group of people involved in the project we only supply updates for the latest netbeans version (7.2 at the moment).

Requirement:

• Java 1.6 (Java 1.7 is not supported yet)
• Maven 2.x/3.x
• NetBeans 7.2

Setting nb.installation property for maven

Hint: This is going to be removed in the future. There is allready a nbm-application based subproject which can be used to run all modules of the plugin. See the scala.app/pom.xml for more information, what is still missing.

Make a new copy of your installed NetBeans (which will be used to run 'mvn nbm:run-ide' goal), check if there is a directory 'nbscala' under this copy, if yes, delete it. Then set 'nb.installation' property in your maven settings.xml (.m2/settings.xml) to point to this copy:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>netbeans</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <nb.installation>${user.home}/myapps/netbeans-71</nb.installation>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

Build all nbms

cd nbscala
mvn clean install

Generate auto-update site:

cd nbscala
mvn nbm:autoupdate

the nbms and update site can be found at nbscala/target/netbeans_site

Run/Debug ide:

cd nbscala
mvn nbm:cluster

To run:

mvn nbm:run-ide

To debug:

mvn nbm:run-ide -Pdebug-ide

Project Details

The Project targets version 2.9.x of the scala release.