FindBugs Installation in Netbeans 5.5

I have found that there is no really good description on how to download and install the FindBugs plug-in for Netbeans 5.5. The plug-in is part of a larger project on java.net called Software Quality Environment (SQE) If you want to use SQE and FindBugs. Do the following:

1. Start Nebeans 5.5 and go to the Tools --> Options --> Advanced Options (located on bottom left corner of Options screen)

2. Navigate to the IDE Configuration --> System --> Autoupdates Types item in the tree. See below


3. Right click on the Autoupdate Types item to bring up the context menu. Select New --> General Update Center. This will bring up the menu below. I named my update center FindBugs and pressed Finish. See Below.

4. Click on the new FindBugs update center in the tree and change the Server URL entry to

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/job/sqe/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/build/updates/updates.xml.gz

5. Close the window and you can now use the update center to install and update FindBugs

How to convert an InputStream to a String and Back

There are four methods listed below to convert InputStream to String and String to an InputStream.

Subversion 1.4.0 Build Configuration (Solaris 10) (SPARC)

Set the library path using crle
crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/sfw/lib

***You may need to unset the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH

set make to gmake
export MAKE=/opt/sfw/bin/gmake

Add additional directories to the path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin

CONFIGURE SCRIPT

./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-javahl --with-zlib --with-apxs=/usr/apache2/bin/apxs --with-jikes=no --with-jdk=/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_07 --without-berkeley-db --with-apr=/usr/apache2/bin/apr-config --with-apr-util=/usr/apache2/bin/apu-config --with-editor=/opt/sfw/bin/pico