Hi Matteo, The way to share dependencies between netbeans platform modules is to create library wrapper modules. - Create a new netbeans platform module - add the dependency - declare public packages
A little more elaborate description can be found here: https://ljelonek.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/netbeans-maven-library-wrapper-modules/ Cheers, Timon On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:29 PM Matteo Di Giovinazzo <matte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to mavenize our NB RCP app, but I do not understand how to add > 3rd party libraries. > I have an app (nbappmaven) with two modules (module1 and module2) and both > need the same library, say gitlab4j (with all dependencies is about 7 MB of > jars). > > I tried several approaches but without luck: > > 1. I declared the dependency in both modules but I ended up with the > needed jars in both these folders: > - > > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.mycompany.module1 > - > > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.mycompany.module2 > 2. I declared the dependency in the application Maven project, but it is > not picked up by the two modules... > 3. I declared the dependency in the parent Maven project > (nbappmaven-parent), but now I have the jars in 3 folders... > - > > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.mycompany.module1 > - > > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.mycompany.module2 > - > > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.mycompany.nbappmaven-branding > > Is there a suggested approach in this case? I guess it will be pretty > common to share the same library among different modules, no? > > Thanks for any hint! > > Best, > -- > Matteo Di Giovinazzo >
