Introduction
This tutorial demonstrates how to use a new feature of NetBeans 6.5: remote development of C/C++ projects. Have you ever wanted to develop a SolarisTM or Linux application from your laptop running Windows Vista? To test your application on different operating systems without even leaving the IDE? Or just to compile your large applications on a fast multicore server rather than on your regular workstation. The answer to all these needs is the new remote development functionality in the NetBeans IDE 6.5. Please take a look at this tutorial to find out how to use this feature.

Conception
Remote development works this way: Run the NetBeans IDE on your client system and you can create projects, edit files, and use code assistance features the same way as you do for local projects. But when you build, run, or debug your project, the process runs on the remote server with output and input transferred to the client system. So, ideally, you shouldn't see any difference in workflow between doing local and remote development once you've set up the remote host.

Sharing sources
Both your client system and your remote server have to know about your source files. There are two ways of making this possible: