Adding Bukkit as a library
Now that we have created the main class, we need to add the Bukkit API as the library for the project. You may recall, as discussed in the previous chapter, that the API includes the code that we can access to modify the Spigot server. You built the API JAR file when you built the Spigot jar in Chapter 1, Deploying a Spigot Server. If needed, refer to this chapter to retrieve the Bukkit.jar file
. You will want to move it to a more permanent location. I suggest that you create a folder named Libraries
and place the JAR file in this folder. The filename will most likely have a version appended to it. We will rename this file, which is similar to what we did for spigot.jar
. This will help us easily update it in the future. Therefore, the new location of the bukkit.jar file
will be similar to C:\Users\Owner\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Libraries\bukkit.jar
. Remember your file location because, now that we have the Bukkit API, we can create a library for it in NetBeans...