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In JEE projects, there is no "Compile on Save" checkbox. Apparently Compile on Save can be disabled by disabling "Deploy on Change", but that's non-intuitive and non-obvious, and I suspect that one might want to turn off "Deploy on Change" without turning off "Compile on Save". (NetBeans 6.5 Beta)
Any use case for CoS without Dos in EE projects?
We're using JEE projects for OC4J (Oracle Application Server). NetBeans doesn't have (stable) support for OC4J, hence we don't use the NB deployment functionality. It's conceivable that we might want to use CoS though (although currently we don't) if it helps reduce build time over a Clean & Build. Even if NetBeans had OC4J support, we still might want to use just CoS and control deployment manually, for example because deployment affects other processes/systems that act as application clients of the deployed module. (The primary point of this issue though is that when we wanted to turn off the new CoS feature (because it doesn't fit our projects, see issue 144890) on our projects (both JEE and non-JEE), and it's very non-obvious how to do so when looking at the Properties dialog for JEE projects.)
There is CoS checkbox now.