Yes, the plugin already exists! Here: it has a tiny source https://bitbucket.org/emilianbold/maven.search.remote/src/748e56fbaec383ec915f7bb6c473564c52428107/ro.emilianbold.modules.maven.search.remote/src/ro/emilianbold/modules/maven/search/remote/?at=default
It's even BSD licensed and I will gladly relicense it as Apache or donate it myself via a PR. The *majority* of users have problems with Maven Central. While we are hunting for a perfect universal solution we are wasting probably * 100 TeraBytes * of disk space world wide across our users by not providing a simple Maven Central query like this tiny plugin does. It could even be a nice bullet point for an Apache NetBeans release: "saves you 1GB of Maven index disk space". Some users would migrate for this feature alone! --emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 24 April 2018 4:12 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Or use this: > > https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/keep-netbeans-nimble-with-maven-remote-search > > Gj > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Ondro Mihályi ondrej.miha...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi Jaroslav, > > > > You have my full support for this. Getting rid of Maven indexer and > > > > searching on the fly is exactly what I'd like to do too - in fact I always > > > > set indexing to "never" and run manually from time to time because the > > > > indexer freezes the IDE. > > > > A partial workaround would be to add pauses during unpacking and indexing > > > > artifacts to avoid freezing the IDE. But still, it doesn't make sense to > > > > index whole maven repo and store a couple of GB on disk. I run Netbeans > > > > under 2 different user accounts and I had to point Netbeasn to the same > > > > directory to store the index to save a couple of GB by a redundant index. > > > > Ondro > > > > 2018-04-23 8:14 GMT+02:00 Jaroslav Tulach jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com: > > > > > > I just spent the past 2 weeks using IntelliJ IDEA exclusively (having > > > > > > > > used > > > > > > > > it sporatically before). I'm going to share some brief thoughts in the > > > > > > > > hopes that it helps. > > > > > > > > As far as I can tell, IntelliJ's killer feature is their debugger (more > > > > > > > > broadly, their UI). Our killer feature is our profiler, and Maven > > > > > > > > integration (more broadly, bundling more functionality standard). > > > > > > > > - Netbeans drives development of Maven projects through Maven. This > > > > > > > > results in better integration than IntelliJ provides (e.g. good luck > > > > > > > > trying to start a debugging session through Maven) > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I can confirm setting up debugging (for Maven) in IntelliJ is so > > > > > > complicated... > > > > > > Once I called NetBeans the IDE for devops and admins and this is what I > > > meant. If you > > > > > > care about your overall project structure, there shall be benefits of > > > > > > using > > > > > > NetBeans+Maven. If you just care about the code, the IntelliJ's editor > > > > > > focus may give you better experience. > > > > > > Moreover the NetBeans approach is more fragile. Structures of pom.xml > > > > > > files > > > > > > differ wildly and when they get out of expectations, things may get > > > > > > broken > > > > > > or slow... > > > > > > > indexing and performance levels can be done with the > > > > > > > > code currently in Apache NetBeans Git. Jaroslav Tulach will have > > > > > > > > insights > > > > > > > as well as gratitude for help in this area > > > > > > My thought is simple: there should be no Maven index processing on the > > > > > > client (by default). There should be a webservice the IDE would query > > > > > > instead. However my idea was rejected by last Oracle NetBeans performance > > > > > > team last time I proposed it. It was found too complicated. Anybody wants > > > > > > to pick that challenge up now? > > > > > > -jt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
