On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM Michael Bien <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/18/25 01:48, Blake McBride wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > NetBeans starts up just fine but when I try to open a project it hangs.
> The bottom of the screen says "Opening Project."  When I expand it it says
> "Activating HTML5."  At that point it just hangs.  In fact, if I go to
> File / Exit it doesn't exit.  I have to kill the process.
> >
> > The particulars:
> >
> > NetBeans 27
> > Fedora Linux 42 / X11
> > Java 21.0.8
> > Good Internet connection
> > Plenty of RAM and disk space
> >
> > The project I am trying to open is at Kiss <
> https://github.com/blakemcbride/Kiss>
> > Before I try to open it I build it (so the jars are downloaded).  (./bld
> build)
> > I also remove pom.xml and build.gradle since it is not a Maven or Gradle
> system.
>
> Well, that project is quite something ;). I see maven, ant, gradle and bld
> configuration
> files and various scripts in the root folder.
>


bld is the build system.  (Maven & Gradle can't build the system without
all sorts of complex and convoluted configurations.  bld is off-the-charts
simple and portable. The documentation makes this clear and gives a full
explanation why.)

ant is used as a bridge between bld and an IDE's ant integration.

Maven is used to describe dependencies to GitHub.

Gradle is an experiment.

Maven and Gradle build files were removed before I started NetBeans.

It is not expected nor necessary for NetBeans to know about bld.

The scripts are ancillary utility scripts not normally used.

--blake
blakemcbride.com



>
> In situations with multiple project build configs you would have to pick
> one before
> opening it.  By default it would open it as gradle project i believe. To
> change that you have
> to take a look at the gradle options (tools -> options -> java -> gradle
> -> maven)
> and check "prefer maven over gradle projects" and you could open it as
> maven project.
>
> Don't remove project configuration files while the project is already open
> - close it first.
>
> If the maven/gradle project config is valid (and it builds via CLI) but
> does not open
> with NB, please file a bug with reproducer.
>
> NB doesn't have any support for bld projects.
>
> best regards,
> michael
>
>
> >
> > It has been a long time since I tried to take a look at NetBeans.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Blake
> >
>
>

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