Any thoughts about this question of mine? I read lately some old thread about converting the contrib plugins to Maven: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/38228ec0bd9f47b014d9b7cff72665285c6227d39726373be6c7b82b@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
Any hint you can give us, Tim Boudreau? Thanks in advance! -Matteo On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 11:56, Matteo Di Giovinazzo <matte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, yes but what about the case we have in our RCP app: we use > gitlab4j, batik and awsamazon libraries and they share dependencies on > commons-logging with 3 different versions and other shared dependencies? > Is creating different NBM modules by hand trying to group as much jars as > possible and at the same time minimize the redundancy of including the same > jars multiple times the only solution at the moment? > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 09:19, Eric Barboni <sk...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> You may group more than on artifacts in one wrapper. And you don't have >> to do wrapper for every artefacts >> If you wrap batik, it's about 10 maven artefacts, but you may have just >> one wrapper for all of them. >> It depends usage >> >> Regards >> Eric >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : Matteo Di Giovinazzo <matte...@gmail.com> >> Envoyé : vendredi 25 octobre 2019 16:22 >> À : dev@netbeans.apache.org >> Objet : Re: NetBeans app with Maven with 3rd party libs >> >> Thanks Timon for the suggestion! >> I am used to follow that way using the Ant-based NetBeans >> module/suite/application projects, but I was hoping with Maven that could >> be avoided given that Maven takes care of dependencies itself. I guess the >> problem is that Maven dependencies are transitive whereas NetBeans ones are >> not. I was in fact reading this >> https://bits.netbeans.org/mavenutilities/nbm-maven-plugin/ hoping >> something clever was going to happen. >> >> Our current problem is that we have 50+ libraries to ship with our RCP >> application and some of them have very log chain of dependencies and >> handling all the dependency graph by hand is a nightmare... >> >> Any other suggestions? >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 02:31, Timon Veenstra <mon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > 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-wrapp >> > er-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.my >> > company.module1 >> > > - >> > > >> > > >> > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.my >> > company.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.my >> > company.module1 >> > > - >> > > >> > > >> > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.my >> > company.module2 >> > > - >> > > >> > > >> > nbappmaven\application\target\nbappmaven\nbappmaven\modules\ext\com.my >> > company.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 >> > > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Matteo Di Giovinazzo >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> >> >> > > -- > Matteo Di Giovinazzo > -- Matteo Di Giovinazzo
