Hi Alessandro, I see, I mentioned SpringBoot as just a hypothetical example. in fact I think that Netbeans should adopt maven and maybe also gradle as first-class citizens and stop putting maven and gradle projects into a separate category. For example, I'd like to go to New Project -> Java Web -> Web Application -> select build tool (one of Ant, Maven, Gradle) and create a project. It's very weird that most of the industry uses Maven and Gradle, but the default in Netbeans is Ant. Newcomers choose Ant projects in Netbeans most of the time, not knowing that most of the world out there already uses Maven or Gradle.
If we had Maven and Gradle projects under the same categories as Ant projects, then a SpringBoot project could be under Java Web category. That's all what I meant in my previous email. All the best, Ondro st 30. 1. 2019 o 15:28 Alessandro <alex.fala...@gmail.com> napísal(a): > Hi Ondro, > > Il giorno mer 30 gen 2019 alle ore 10:08 Ondro Mihályi < > ondrej.miha...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > ... > > Although the project creation dialog refers to Java EE in one select box, > > it allows choosing Tomcat and only adds dependencies present in Tomcat. In > > addition, if there was a plugin for generating Ant-based Spring Boot > apps, > > it could also be in this category, as it would be a Java Web project, > > although a separate SpringBoot type packaged as JAR. > > ... > > - Ondro > > > > While creating an Ant project using Spring Boot is entirely possible it is > not recommended as Spring Boot heavily relies on a build tool with > dependency management capabilities (see > > https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using-boot-build-systems.html > ). > > The NB Spring Boot plugin I created intentionally adds items to the Maven > category for this reason. Now that Gradle support is in master it could be > worth having a look at supporting Spring Boot Gradle projects too. > > Greets, > Alessandro >
