Lua Support for Netbeans? Any Java Devs Want To Try?

[Dac Chartrand <dac@...>]

Greetings,

I'm looking for help adding Lua support to the Netbeans IDE. I found a tutorial entitled "How to create support for a new language" here:

* http://wiki.netbeans.org/How_to_create_support_for_a_new_language

The tutorial uses the javaCC parser generator and recommends using existing .jj files; which I found as part of the LuaJ project here:

* http://luaj.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/luaj/luaj-vm/grammar/

My first problem is that I don't use Netbeans. I'm just starting to look at it. I normally use jEdit. As I type I don't have the appropriate Java plugins installed to auto generate things as explained in the tutorial. My second problem is that I don't do Java. My final problem is that the Tutorial is for an older version of Netbeans.

I believe the howto is straightforward enough, but I don't want to go down a painful newbie road only to hit a brick wall of "I don't know what I'm doing in Java."

Has someone already done this for Netbeans? Preferably without a focus on Warcraft? Or, would a competent Java dev be willing to give this a go and save me the trouble? Or has someone already tried and it didn't work?

Thank you for your time. 

Best regards,