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PLEXI DEVELOPER QUICK START
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A guide to becoming a developer on the Plexi project using NetBeans IDE
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<p>1. Open NetBeans IDE. Here is pic of NetBeans 7.1.1 open
 with no projects nor files.<br>
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<p>2. Click "Team -> Git -> Clone".<br>
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<p>3. Insert repository URL https://code.google.com/p/plexi/ .
 Optionally insert username and password (if you're going
 to be commiting changes).<br>
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Click Next

<p>4. Select master* branch.<br>
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Click Next

<p>5. Choose and specify your own parent directory 
for projects and your own clone name.  The
parent directory is where your NetBeans projects 
live.  The clone directory will be a subdirectory
devoted to this project.<br>
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Click Finish

<p>6. You'll be asked if you'd like to create an IDE project.
Click Create Project.<br>
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<p>7. Choose "Java Free-Form Project".<br>
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<p>8. Use parent directory and clone name as location.
 Other entries should be automatically filled.<br>
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Click Next

<p>9. The Build and Run Actions should all 
be automatically correctly filled.<br>
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Click Next

<p>10. Make sure to provide src directory as 
source folder and test directory as tests folder.
 Set source level to JDK 1.6 and encoding to UTF-8.<br>
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Click Next

<p>11. To get IDE to help with code completion, suggestions, warnings, etc. please
add all files under lib directory to src classpath.<br>
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<p>12.To get IDE to help with code completion etc. in test code please
add all files under lib directory to test classpath. Also add the src
directory to test classpath.<br>
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Click Next

<p>13.Set build/src as src class output directory (which doesn't 
exist yet because we haven't compiled yet). <br>
Set build/test as test class output directory (not pictured).<br>
Also set build/javadoc as javadoc output directory.<br>
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Click Finish

<p>14. Click "Run > Test Project (plexi)" to confirm
 everything compiles and all tests are passing.<br>
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<p>15. Congratulate yourself on setting up NetBeans
 for your Plexi development!<br>
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Thank you.<br>

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Developers contributing source code changes should
 also update source code formating rules.  Stay tuned for
 a visual guide on how to do that in NetBeans in the next episode.
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2012.03.14<br>
California, USA<br>

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