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Friday October 31, 2008

Navigate OpenSolaris sources with Sun Studio/NetBeans IDE
There is now a new project in OpenSolaris to navigate the latest OpenSolaris sources as NetBeans C/C++ (or Sun Studio) IDE projects. All classic browsing actions like hyperlink navigation, class browser, call graphs, etc are available. The projects also enables users to seamlessly integrate third-party software like drivers with the ON sources.
What is not available yet is building and debugging these sources automatically in the IDE. This is a key missing feature; most people learn by trying things out.
OpenSolaris builds 100 and 101 are available; you have to download both the projects created and the sources that correspond to those. Future builds will be tracked in sync. There are over 1000 NetBeans projects created with each build of OpenSolaris . There is an example user scenario of how a driver writer can use this kind of navigation to identify and verify appropriate dependencies on OpenSolaris projects.
From my own personal experience, this is a very interesting scenario to demo; I have done it myself at various customer sites and at Sun TechDays and the reception has uniformly been wonderful. When I bring up the IDE with this, there is an immediate Wow! from the audience.
The IDE is working on making similar projects possible for other communities as well. In the meantime, please take a look at this Navigator Project link , try it out, give the team feedback and help us improve this even further!
Posted by tatkar ( Oct 31 2008, 08:49:39 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]

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