Equivalent to Netbeans Visual Studio Solution File?

Question

This is the first time I'm testing Netbeans to do some Linux C / C ++ development work. But, having a strong Visual Studio background, it's hard for me to find the equivalent of a VS solution file .

A solution is a grouping of one or more projects that create an application.

The closest I see is the Project Group , which is defined as:

The group is an ongoing set of IDE projects. Persistence in the user directory and thus for each user (not shared with another user IDE). The group has a display name. If one of the projects in it as the main project, this information is saved and.

What makes this, apparently, a tool for organizing what I'm working on now, and not a means of organizing relationships between projects (and which are stored together with the projects themselves)

So, Projects equivalent of Netbeans VS solution files ?

Answer 1

I would suggest using File-> New Project → Maven → POM Project to create an aggregation project. Then, right-click the Modules folder in the Projects window of this project to create / add other projects to the project.

Projects can also add other projects as dependencies regardless of whether an aggregation project exists. Right-click the Ant Projects Libraries folder and Add Project .. or the Dependencies folder of the Maven Project → Add Dependency, and then select the Open Projects tab.

Note. There are two types of Java projects in Netbeans. Ant and Maven. Ant is simpler and older, and by default (called a Java project) maven is newer, more powerful and flexible. Gradle projects can be used / created after installing the plugin.