</ul>
With any luck, after setting your paths and JAVA_HOME correctly, you
just need to change to the Jalview directory and run ant (this works
-from JBuilder and eclipse too).
+from JBuilder and eclipse too, but NetBeans is a bit trickier).
<pre>
ant
</pre>
</pre>
<p>
-
-<p>
+<h1>using IDEs to build Jalview</h1>
+ <p>The Jalview source distribution includes project definitions for
+ Eclipse, Netbeans and some rather ancient Borland JBuilder .jpx
+ project files. These files should be sufficient to set up basic source
+ folders and build paths, but you will need to ensure that all .jar
+ files in the lib and appletlib directories are added to the build path
+ for your IDE project, and that the 'buildindices' target in Jalview's
+ build.xml is executed with the 'outputDir' ant property set to the
+ directory where the IDE expects to place compiled classes ('classes'
+ directory for eclipse, 'build/classes' for netbeans).</p>
+ <p>Note: It is generally not recommended that you distribute build
+ artefacts that were generated automatically via an IDE's own packaging
+ mechanism (e.g. Netbeans' executable Jar and dependent lib directory).
+ The hand-crafted ant build.xml is (currently) the only officially
+ supported method of building distributable versions of Jalview.</p>
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