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MySQL Development with NetBeans IDE

Hi again,

I recently was pointed to a blog entry written my Kaj Arnold, MySQL Vice President for Community Relations. He is very enthusiastic about the IDE's new role in MySQL development. This is what he said about the IDE:

• MySQL can be directly imported as a NetBeans project
• NetBeans can show dependencies between MySQL routine calls
• NetBeans can show all occurences of a C variable in MySQL’s source code, in a scope-sensitive way (i.e. not a simple grep)
• NetBeans shows all occurences, across the code base, of a particular class, function, field, macro etc.
• NetBeans can rename any identifier in-place, such as “a” to something more meaningful
• NetBeans integrates debugging, even of MySQL
• NetBeans provides easy navigation of code

Also, his conclusion is:

• NetBeans is a great way to learn the MySQL source code
• learning the MySQL source code is simplified both for our community and for our own engineers
• usage is so simple and provides so many advantages that it’s worthy of a try

Rather than write more here, I'll just point you to the blog entry, and you can read it yourself. http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/18/netbeans-as-ide-for-developing-mysql-itself/

Happy reading!

--James

Posted at 02:57PM Jun 24, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans  |