In either case you will see the same Browse Main Classes dialog box with several project classes with main methods listed. In the above image, the Main Class is not auto-populated and you may either choose it now or choose it when you attempt to run the project for the first time.NetBeans 7.3 Project Properties: Run Dialog In the Working Directory field, type the path to the source folder or click the Browse button and navigate to it. Right click on the project name in the Project Window and choose Properties. By default the project folder is the working folder, but all the jEdit resources are in the source folder. Now you will need to let NetBeans know the working folder or jEdit will not be able to find the resources it is looking for.At this point all the unwanted files and packages are removed from the project and their should be no red error badges showing in the Project Window. If you like, you may exclude all the files in the root of the source files folder so they will not show in the Project Window.NetBeans 7.3 Configure Includes & Excludes Dialog Box In the Excludes field, type the folders names that correspond to the packages that need to be excluded from the project. Next, right click on the project name and choose Properties, then click the Includes/Excludes button.NetBeans 7.3 Main Window (Click image for lager size) These are the packages that can be exclude from the project. After NetBeans is done scanning, you will see red error badges appear on some of the packages. NetBeans will scan the project to resolve dependencies. NetBeans 7.3 Project Properties: Libraries Tab Navigate to where you placed the jsr305-2.0.1.jar file and add it. On the Compile tab, add a Compile-time Library by clicking the Add Jar/Folder button. Then choose Libraries on the Categories tree. Now add the jsr305-2.0.1.jar dependency: Right click on the project name and choose Properties. Click the Next button and the new project will now show in the Project Window.Later, you will want to exclude folders that have files that are missing dependencies and are not necessary to be included in the project, you can do that after NetBeans scans the project and tags the files with error badges-warning of the missing dependencies. By default NetBeans chooses all folders and files in the source directory. Click the Next button and in the next dialog box, choose the files to include and exclude from the project.NetBeans 7.3 New Project With Existing Source: Existing Sources Dialog Box
Just click the Add Folder button and choose the jEdit folder that you extracted from the downloaded archive in step 4.
Run NetBeans and choose File > New Project.The folder structure will look similar to this: Extract the jEdit files from the archive that you downloaded into the new project directory you created in step 3.Create a new project folder called jEditProject or whatever name you would like to call it.Later you will need to add this to the project to resolve dependencies against and.
I will show you how to setup the jEdit 5 source code as a NetBeans 7.3 project so you can compile it and do whatever you like with it. These instructions are obsolete, please visit the updated instructions located here: