D-Plugin for NetBeans Wiki

The Deans project is motivated to set a new starting point to create a plugin for the NetBeans Platform that supports development in the programming langauge D. D is developed by Walter Bright, Digital Mars and supposed to be the successor of C/C++ that aims to sum up all advantages in Java, C++, C# and other popular languages.

There were already some approaches to integrate D Support in different IDEs, e.G. Descent for Eclipse. But Unfortanetly, a stable plugin for NetBeans IDE has not been released yet. Therefore Deans aims to fill out this gap for the future.

Deans should provide the following basic features for the first version:

• A comfortable project-management-system via the Project API to manage the structure of D-Source-Code
• An Integration of one of the following buildsystems: Scons, Make, DSSS, which will be responsible for compilations and execution over NetBeans Interface.
• A basic Sourcecode-Editor with Syntax Highlightning, Indentation and maybe other features like code completion.

This project is part of my current bachelor thesis on the University for applied science, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg for this winter term 2009

Feel free to discuss and ask questions within the mailing list for general discussions.