I am share with the Joomla! community in general because its definitely helped me to be more productive. Now, I am no Apache ANT guru that's for sure, but I have been able to piece together some build functionality for my components have made my life easier and my component packages have less mistakes (missing files, etc).

WHAT IT DOES

• Zips your component into a nbproject/package/${name}.zip file
• SFTPs your components files into the proper directories as long as remote.directory is set properly (You do that in your project configuration when you specify Remote)
• Copies the files to your local Joomla! installation for testing.

SHORT PROCESS (FYI)

• loads the nbproject/project.properties file
• loads the private/private.properties file
• loads the FTP connections file that you specify in the private.properies file
• ** NOTE: You can specify your ${ftp.connections} file directly here.

INSTRUCTIONS

### Set up SCP/SFTP ###

1. In Netbeans 7.2.1 the RemoteConnections directory is at:
   ${netbeans.user}\\config\\Preferences\\org\\netbeans\\modules\\php\\project\\RemoteConnections
   So you would place the following line into your nbproject/private/private.properties file ():
   ftp.connections=${netbeans.user}\\config\\Preferences\\org\\netbeans\\modules\\php\\project\\RemoteConnections
2. 2. In that directory find the file/connection you are using for your project and put your password on a new line as follows:
   password=XXX123YYY ; where XXX123YYY is your password

### Set up Name and Local Web Root Properties ###

3. Open your nbproject/project.properties file and add the name of your components entry point, i.e. if you component is called 'com_dog' use 'dog' as follows:
   name=dog
4. In the same file enter the web.root of your local testing installation, i.e.:
   C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\joomla_root\\ ; or what ever it is on linux or Mac OS is thats your flavor

I am sure there is a more elegant set of task/targets but it works so go ahead and use it.