Netbeans: why need to rebuild project to update the 'dist' folder?

Question

I'm using Netbeans 6.7 and notice that the jar file in the 'dist' folder will not get updated until I click on "clean and build"

This is quite annoying; I expected Netbeans to just regenerate the JAR file everytime I save a file.

Does anyone experience this issue? If so, how do you make sure the jar file is always up to date?

Answer 1

You can do a build instead of clean build... I can see why they do not generate the jar on save it would be a fairly "expensive" operation especially for those of us that save far more often then we run.

Other than build or clean build I don't know of a way to do what you want. Here is an article on the topic.