Compile NetBeans project from command line by using Ant

Question

I have a NetBeans project I would like to compile from the command line. There are many other questions on StackOverflow about how to do so, but they explain how to compile the

Answer 1

I'm totally agnostic IDE developer. After several frustrating years trying to emerge "netbeans ant config" to something usable from command line I became to create a wrapper for netbeans ant.

https://github.com/albfan/ant-netbeans

By now you can:

• detect defined targets with standard

$ ant tabtab

• Rely on project will honor JDK_HOME

and most important

• Expect all ant target to complete smoothly, passing test and whatever stuff implied.