How to load Cocoon in Netbeans

  • TARGET-AUDIENCE: beginner *advanced* expert
  • COCOON-RELEASES: 2.1.5, 2.1.5.1, 2.1.6
  • DOCUMENT-STATUS: *draft* reviewed released

Netbeans 3.6

  • Download and build cocoon (build webapp)
  • Start Netbeans
  • Right click in "File System" tab and select "Mount > Local Directory". "New Wizard" will open.
  • Using "New Wizard" point to cocoon's webapp folder (for example: "cocoon-2.1.5.1/build/webapp"). Select webapp directory (dont open it) and click "Finish". Now Netbean will load required jar's.
  • In "Project Default" tab a new node must be added. something like "cocoon-2.1.5.1/build/webapp". If not, look at "Filesystem" for the same node. Then right click on it and select "Tools > Add to project"
  • Change to "Project Default" tab. select cocoon's node and click "Execute"
  • Wait for deploy and point your browser to "http://localhost:8084/cocoonapp/". if cocoon dont live in /cocoonapp. Change to "Runtime" Tab and look at "Server Registy > Tomcat 5 Servers > http://localhost:8084 > Web Modules" to see where cocoon is deployed.

If you want to debug cocoon's java classes put from sources the packages you want in build/WEB-INF/classes

Netbeans 4.0

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