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Other projects

Projects, which are not directly related to current Platform or IDE products development. The projects are grouped in following categories:

Active universal projects

Projects which are addressing specific aspects of a whole product (It includes for example qa, ui, edu, performance or NetBeans website)

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
qa NetBeans Quality Assurance
ui The User Interface Developer's Corner
edu NetBeans in Education
performance  NetBeans Performance
www NetBeans website

Test Tools

TestTools is an umbrella project for all NetBeans test tools including support documents and references to related projects like XTest, JUnit, Jemmy, Jelly or Accessiblity.

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
testtools Test Tools umbrella project corresponding module including support documents and references to testtools sub-projects
xtest XTest is general test framework (test harness and IDE plugin) for Java based products tests. It's is based on open source products like Ant, JUnit, Xalan and NetBeans.
junit JUnit module provides a harness for running tests and NetBeans extension to JUnit, which is adding extra functionality like possibility to assert files, filter test methods, etc ... to JUnit.
jemmy Jemmy is a library that is used to create automated tests for Java GUI applications.
jemmysupport JemmySupport module can help to create Jemmy components for any IDE internally executable Java application.
jellytools Jellytools is a library which helps to create UI tests for NetBeans IDE. Jelly is based on jemmy which enables to manipulate all swing components.
a11y This module will allow you to  test forms in the Form Editor for accessibility issues. This tool can also be also used as standalone application.

Active projects in progress

Active projects in progress for next NetBeans generation

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
lexer Lexer

Prospective projects

Prospective projects in early development phase - anybody is welcome to join and move it forward

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
cpp C, C++, and Fortran Support Module
externaleditor External Editor support module (XEmacs and Vim integration)

Hibernated projects

Hibernated or simply finished projects

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
antlr ANTLR module 
archivesupport Archive Support module
crosscompile this module is dead since NetBeans 3.1
cpplite C/C++ lightweight support module
icebrowser  Web browser integration - dead
innertesters Inner Testers module - the functionality is provided by NetBeans testtools now.
itutor Interactive Tutor module
jasm JASM (java assembly) module
serialversion Serial Version UID module
sysprops System Properties module
treefs View over a filesystem module
workspaceswitcher WorkspaceSwitcher module
webl Compaq's Web Language support
makefile obsoleted by the actively maintained cpp module.
emacs Emacs support module. Obsoleted by the externaleditor.
corba CORBA support.
jndi Support for JNDI.
rmi Support for RMI.
wasp WASP NetBeans plugin
spellchecker Spell checking of the code
jini Jini technology support module
metrics Metrics module, which adds object-oriented metrics capabilities
multicompile Multi-Compile module
remotefs Remote filesystem implementation
sim Support Interface Module

NetBeans server infrastructure

related modules: 

CVS module name Description
nbbuild Scripts for building netbeans, feature lists and project plans generation
www NetBeans website
testwww General content for NetBeans site
testwww2 New design general content staging website
look SourceCast look configuration