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What is the difference between a suite and a cluster?

April 26, 2017cluster Suite

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What is the difference between a suite and a cluster?

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Suite A suite is a container project used to group external module projects into a unit whose members can refer to one another as well as to a NB platform. If you only have one module project, you can treat it as “standalone” and you do not need a suite, but using a suite is advisable for serious projects since it offers you more options, such as adding library wrapper modules, or creating a complete application based on your module. Currently a suite S2 cannot directly depend on another suite S1. But if S1 uses NB platform P1, you could create a derived platform P2 by building S1 on top of P1, and then select P2 as the NB platform for S2. Then S2 can refer to all the modules in P1 as well as the modules built from S1. The NB IDE build (from sources on hg.netbeans.org) does not use suites. It uses a historical build infrastructure which partially overlaps the external module/suite build harness introduced in 5.0, but which has different requirements (and is considerably more complex).