One of the new features of NetBeans 7.4 that made the “NetBeans 74 NewAndNoteworthy” page is “Native Packaging,” which is described on that page as “JavaSE projects now support creation of native ...

The project can be compiled and built using Netbeans IDE as it's the base IDE used for this project. However, apache ant can be used to compile and build the sources. The java executable (jar) can be ...