See What's New in Version 6.5.
Distributed NetBeans for OpenVMS is a plug-in to standard NetBeans that allows you to run the NetBeans IDE on your desktop system and edit, build, and execute programs on an OpenVMS machine on the network.
Distributed NetBeans works with any desktop that runs NetBeans 6.5. These include Windows, Linux, HP-UX, MAC-OS, Solaris, and others.
In addition, Distributed NetBeans contains all of the functionality provided in NetBeans for OpenVMS plug-in modules: BASIC, C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL language support, DCL support, and EDT keypad support (disabled by default).
Distributed NetBeans for OpenVMS is different from NetBeans for OpenVMS and the NetBeans for OpenVMS plug-in modules. Distributed NetBeans comprises two parts:
Distributed NetBeans Client for OpenVMS, which is a plug-in for NetBeans running on your desktop. You install the NetBeans IDE (from NetBeans.org) and the Distributed NetBeans Client for OpenVMS on your desktop system.
IDE Server for OpenVMS, which runs on OpenVMS and provides remote services for the client plug-in. The IDE Server on the OpenVMS machine creates processes on behalf of an OpenVMS user account to execute DCL commands or user commands such as compiles. Output from those commands is sent back to the PC for parsing. (You do not need to install the NetBeans for OpenVMS IDE or any additional plug-in modules on your OpenVMS system.)
The Distributed NetBeans client plug-in has the following features:
• EDT-keypad editing support
• DCL command file execution support
• C/C++,
Fortran, Cobol, Basic, and Pascal editing and remote compilation support
and
error message parsing
• Remote execution support
• Remote Ant support, including OpenVMS-specific Ant tasks
• Remote MMS and Bash shell script execution support
• Remote 3GL Debugging - debug your 3GL applications running on the OpenVMS machine from within Distributed NetBeans
• SMB Support - Access your files on the OpenVMS machine using Advanced Server or CIFS
Communication between the client system and the remote IDE Server is encrypted using SSL.
See Getting Started for links to the information you need to begin using Distributed NetBeans.
Also see Core IDE Help under the Help menu to learn more about NetBeans concepts.