Back trail for accessing & building javacvs source

For anyone who might benefit from it, here are some my notes on accessing 
the source for and building the javacvs client jar and javadoc.



Using this URL, 
http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/javacvs/libsrc/org/netbeans/lib/cvsclient/?only_with_tag=MAIN, 
you can locate the top level cvs folder for the client source code. Then 
using the "Show files using tag" drop down selection box, you can select a 
tag value for a version of the files that's of interest to you. For myself, 
I chose to use "last_stable_dev" tag.



To get a local copy of and build the source, I installed the NetBeans IDE 
and used its "Versioning" > "Checkout" dropdown menu option to bring up the 
"Checkout" dialog. There, I used the default CVS Root of 
":pserver:[email protected]:/cvs" to connect to the server and 
specified "javacvs" for the Module and "last_stable_dev" for the Tag to 
checkout from. After the checkout completed, I chose the selection for a 
"Java Class Library" in response to the prompt to create a new project from 
the newly checked out javacvs source. After adding the "libsrc" folder from 
the javacvs source to the new project's source files list in the project 
properties, I was able to use the NetBeans build options to produce the jar 
and the javadoc for the client.