## About Building Modules

See Also

The IDE uses an Ant build script to build your modules. The IDE generates the build script based on the options you enter in the project's Project Properties dialog box. You can set the module's dependencies, versioning, and packaging information in the Project Properties dialog box. You can further customize program execution by editing the Ant script and Ant properties for the project.

You can customize the build process by doing any of the following:

- Enter basic options, like module dependencies, packaging settings and versioning information in the Project Properties dialog box.
- Customize the IDE-generated Ant targets or create new targets in `build.xml`.
- Edit properties in `project.properties` to change the name and location of build output folders and files.

To build a module:

1. In the Projects window, right-click the node of the module project you want to build.
2. Choose Build Project.

To build all the modules belonging to a module suite project, right-click the module suite project and choose Build All.

- If the IDE does not support your desired build process, see the `harness/README` file. This README file contains detailed descriptions of various file layouts and how to edit them.

See Also
  About NetBeans Platform and Module Development
  About the NetBeans Platform
  Building a JNLP Application
  Building an NBM File
  Building a ZIP Distribution

Legal Notices