Hello guys, I've just reconfigured NetBeans to present itself as a Mac OS X Application. I followed stackoverflow advice https://stackoverflow.com/questions/281372/executing-shell-scripts-from-the-os-x-dock/281389#281389
If you don't need a Terminal window, you can make any executable file an Application just by moving example.sh to example.sh.app/Contents/MacOS/example.sh. You can place the Application in your dock like any other, and execute it with a click. E.g. after unzipping, I renamed $ mv netbeans netbeans.app and created the necessary subdirectory: $ mkdir -p netbeans.app/Contents/MacOS/ and then created a symlink: $ cd netbeans.app/Contents/MacOS/ $ ln -s ../../bin/netbeans . That's all and now my computer recognizes Apache NetBeans 10 as an application... -jt
