Thanks for all the responses. Let me answer first the questions:
Why 11.3 exactly? Personally, while I understand the desire to not make a
giant leap, I think you're probably better jumping straight to NetBeans 17 with
JDK 11 here.
Yes, full of enthusiasm I initially tried NB17. But got some error messages
which made me step back in history. I tried 16, 12 and 12.6.
11.3 is the version which just worked, except the help.
In 17 I got, for example, this error. For which I couldn't find a solution:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.findRecursivePkgs(Netigso.java:784)
at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.substitutePkg(Netigso.java:741)
at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.fakeBundle(Netigso.java:611)
at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.fakeOneModule(Netigso.java:506)
at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.prepare(Netigso.java:155)
at org.netbeans.NetigsoHandle.turnOn(NetigsoHandle.java:115)
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.doEnable(ModuleManager.java:1476)
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1331)
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1256)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.installNew(ModuleList.java:316)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.trigger(ModuleList.java:252)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.restore(ModuleSystem.java:298)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:173)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:142)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:303)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:98)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
INFO [org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso]: Can't process
C:\Users\Marco\Projects\IdeaProjects\senbox\snap-engine\ceres-core\target\classes
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
C:\Users\Marco\Projects\IdeaProjects\senbox\snap-engine\ceres-core\target\classes
(Access denied)
at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open0(Native Method)
at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(RandomAccessFile.java:345)
… <more>
Thanks Oliver, for the JavaHelp link. We will have a look.
Ciao
Marco
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2023 8:03 PM
To: dev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Javahelp broken after update from NB platform 8.2 to 11.3
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On Fri, 5 May 2023, 18:38 Milan Horák, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my two cents:
>
> We have we have a whole ERP written in NetBeans 8 and absence of
> JavaHelp and absent Czech translation (solvable) is the only thing
> keeping us there. We don't insist on JavaHelp, but I couldn't find a
> way to replace JavaHelp with calls to online help context by pressing F1 key.
>
That's doable. And I'm sure we have people who'd be happy to help with any
migration to the current platform!
https://netbeans.apache.org/help/commercial-support.html
Best wishes,
Neil
