Ways of customising the storefront, is this possible and recommended?

[anton83]

Hi,

Although it's been suggested that import into Eclipse (or NetBeans) IDE can be done, I'm wondering would it be perfectly acceptable to do it like this:

- Create a project in Netbeans, not necessarily a Java project, and create a connection to the server, so files can be downloaded and uploaded via FTP
- Download the desired .java file, make changes, upload it back to exactly the same place.
- Then use server SSH to run the Ant tool

Is this possible? It seems a lot easier and less complicated (at least in the dev phase) compared to building and packing into JARs locally then uploading to server. I'm not skilled in Java so please don't mind if I didn't quite get the process.