It really depends on what you’re trying to develop. Put aside the theory and ask yourself practically what it is you’re working towards and what kind of functionality you need from the NetBeans Platform.
Based on those requirements, assemble your POM, share your specific questions about your actual needs here, and we’ll help. Gj On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 03:14, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with ways to build NetBeans Platform applications. > I'm still new to the platform. I've been told that Maven is the way to > go [1]. That's great; I like Maven and have used it for years. > However, I'm having trouble understanding how to use (or exclude) > NetBeans Platform modules. How does one usually do that? > > Let me explain my confusion. Consider this blog post from 2010: > > > https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/an-xml-editor-in-3-steps-without-any-coding > > In it, Geertjan describes how to add an XML Editor to your NetBeans > Platform application. The critical steps are: > > 2. Right-click the application, choose Properties, and go to the > Libraries panel. > > - In "platform11", add a checkmark for "Favorites". > > - In "ide12", add a checkmark for "XML Text Editor" and then click > the "Resolve" button. > > Even today in NetBeans 12.4, these steps basically seem to work in the > case of an Ant-based NetBeans Platform application. However, in the > case of a Maven-based NetBeans Platform application, the "Libraries" > panel doesn't even exist, so it seems it must be done differently. > > How do you do this in the case of a Maven-based NetBeans Platform > application? I have not yet found good documentation that describes how > to do this with Maven. Everything I have found so far is specific to > the Ant-based scenario. I imagine that adding or removing platform > features must not be too difficult. What am I missing? > > After some experimentation, I did discover that I can right click on the > "Dependencies" node of my Maven-based NetBeans Platform application in > the Projects window, and from there I can type the word "favorite" into > the "Query" field of the "Search" tab. In this way I discovered that an > artifact named org.netbeans.modules:org-netbeans-modules.favorites > exists in Maven Central. I suppose this single artifact might be what I > need for the "Favorites" feature, but who knows? Even if that is the > case and nothing else is required, I'm still not sure how I would go > from "I read how to do this in an Ant-specific tutorial" to "I know how > to do this in the Maven case." > > By the way, I notice that by default, a new Maven-based NetBeans > Platform application will declare a dependency on the artifact > org.netbeans.cluster:platform, which in turn depends on many, many other > artifacts (including > org.netbeans.modules:org-netbeans-modules.favorites). If I DON'T want > to include one of these things (e.g., the Favorites feature), what's the > right way to remove it from my application? > > Thank you for reading this far. Hopefully I'm just missing something > obvious. > > Footnotes: > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r945ab924cfc641ba71bce7c50c61af299446bfbe2b7a1624b1464673%40%3Cusers.netbeans.apache.org%3E > > [2] https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners > > -- > Chris >
