Process to update Existing JAVA Dev Workstation to 2013

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Originally Posted by DaveFrederick

Brad,
Thanks for the feedback.
Our FRC JAVA development notebooks are not allowed to connect to the school network so we don't have any connectivity.

We need to acquire all of the software ahead of time.
In past years we had trouble getting the development environment to work, always needed to download some huge chunk of code.

This year I practiced the full process in a VM ahead of time.
I hope we can have code development working in a few hours and not days/weeks.

Dave Frederick, Manassas VA

If you need to download the plugins ahead of time, go to the directory the screensteps documentation gives you:

http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/java/netbeans/update/Stable/

And download them off the FTP directly

Then go into Netbeans and go to Tools>Plugins>"Downloaded" and click "Add Plugins," and add the downloaded plugins manually.