Using NetBeans with the Pi

After discussing our application logic and seeing how it works, it's time for the best part: building your application and running it on the Raspberry Pi using NetBeans. The steps are as follows:

1. Right-click on the Chapter6 project in NetBeans Projects tab and select Properties.

2. From the Project Properties box, select Run from the Categories menu to the left. You will see a dialog similar to the following screenshot:

   

   Project Properties dialog and the Run incarnation

3. Click on the New button to the right of the selected Configuration. Set a name for the New Configuration (Pi Remote Config) and click on the OK button, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   New Configuration

4. Now you have to associate a remote JDK with your remote configuration. To do so, click on the combo box labeled Runtime Platform and select JavaFX on Raspberry Pi JDK 8 that you configured earlier. Don't forget to add the path for jfxrt.jar in VM Options:

   

   Remote Pi JDK association

5. The final step is to build...