Attach

To be able to do Navigate ⇒ Go to Source on netbeans classes like TopComponent you need to link the sources to the Netbeans Plaform using the Netbeans Plaform Manager as explained in Hyperlinking to NetBeans API Sources. Be sure to download the proper source zip from the netbeans download page, otherwise the Platform Manager won’t let you attach the source file to the platform (all invalid options are greyed out/dimmed): ...

I’m new in NetBeans and today I’ve been struggling a couple of hours with the simple task of attaching the source code for an external JAR (NetBean Library Wrapper Module). I’ve been trying to find in google how to do it without success until I reached this post in the netbeans-users mailing list. Then I realized that I should been looking into the NetBeans Help first. The entry at Help -> Help contents -> Java Applications -> Debugging Applications -> Attaching Source Code to a JAR File explains how to do it. ...