Start NetBeans Platform w/ System Filesystem in memory?

[Richard Catlin]

NetBeans Platform Developers,

Is it possible to start the bare NetBeans Platform with the System
Filesystem in memory instead of writing to the users home directory? Is
so, then at some point, can it be written from memory and written either
to the users filesystem or a remote filesystem? I am using NetBeans 6.1
if that matters.

Thank you.
Richard Catlin

[Geertjan Wielenga]

Richard Catlin wrote:

[Emilian Bold]

In theory you can add your own implementation of
org.openide.filesystems.Repository (remember to remove
#-org.netbeans.core.startup.NbRepository) in META-INF/services which
uses a MemoryFilesystem.

But there are these lines in Startup/Main.java:

assert Repository.getDefault() instanceof NbRepository : "Has to
be NbRepository: " + Repository.getDefault(); // NOI18N
getModuleSystem ();

Which makes me believe they assume you have a NbRepository and after
that they bootstrap the modules. But it might work anythow -- give it
a try.

--emi

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Richard Catlin
<richard.m.catlin@gmail.com> wrote: