Are you sure you need to run NetBeans on JDK 8? Gj
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 17:41, Jean-Marc Borer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Thank a lot for your help. > > I know that there is lot of fiddling around with the NBMs, but for that > you must be very comfortable how the update process works and the NBMs > contents. > > What I finally did, was to install NB on a non restricted computer and > copied over the required items from the user dir, update center, config of > modules, jars, etc to make NB believe, that I managed to download it. A bit > of a mess as well. > > The problem within a corporate environment is to white-list all the > required sites and this is extremely difficult when you get redirected to > various proxies. > > Cheers > > JM > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:42 AM Stutzman, David K CTR USARMY CCDC C5ISR > (USA) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was able to get past this with a bunch of BS. I'm not sure why the NB >> team goes to such lengths to package things this way. Ease of plugin >> installation in an off-line environment was one of the things that sent to >> me away from Eclipse and to NetBeans quite a while ago. Anyway.... >> >> >> >> I'm at home teleworking now and don't have access to the files or I'd be >> able to help you out more concretely, also working from memory. >> >> >> >> The first hurdle is getting the actual NBMs since the plugin portal >> doesn't have the current ones for 11.3. I used a machine with internet >> access to add the plugins. Now NB is interesting here in that it downloads >> the NBMs into your userdir into a folder it creates, poke around in there >> to find them. Don't go through the whole update process, just once it >> pulls down the files start looking in there. In some instances NB also >> leaves them in that folder and when it restarts that's when it installs >> them. I believe Geertjan did an article on that many moons ago: >> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/updatedownload >> >> >> >> Once you have the 3 NBMs you're halfway there because those NBMs have >> remote references to download jars (WHY!??!). Basically I looked inside >> the NBMs and found the references to the remote files, downloaded them then >> replaced the pointers in the NBM with the actual downloaded files. I think >> I renamed the jars to remove the version hashes... Now the signature won't >> verify which you can't click through in NB so I deleted the signature files >> from the NBM (I think in META-INF??) that made it signed and you'll get a >> warning that you can click through, then I tossed those NBMs up on our dev >> share for my co-workers to use. >> >> >> >> Good luck and sorry I don't have the exact steps for you...but it can be >> overcome! >> >> >> >> Dave >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Jean-Marc Borer [[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:53 >> *To:* NetBeans Mailing >> *Subject:* [Non-DoD Source] Where can I find an offline version of the >> nb-javac 2.1 plugin? >> >> Hello guys, >> >> My eternal "behind corporate proxy" bites me again. Even though I request >> "osuol" to be white listed, I cannot download the updated and fixed version >> of nb-javac: >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> Where can I download the required plugins (api, impl, etc)? >> >> Thank you in advance >> >> JMB >> >>
