Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 21:58, Joseph Huber wrote: > I considered moving from Ant to Maven, but really found no good reason to do > so. I have customized build macros in Ant (creating installers ... This was one reason I was using Ant too. Those installer aspects of my build were rewritten in

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 15:04, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Scott Palmer schrieb am 26.02.2023 um 15:47: > > I don’t think there is a case where I would ever choose to create a > > new Ant-based project these days. It is more flexible than Maven, > > but far more awkward to work with than Gradle.

RE: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

I just finished doing what you are starting (moving a substantial NetBeans 8/Java 8 platform application to NetBeans 15/Java 17). In my case, I didn't have to "start over" like you are doing. The move was not trivial, and issues came up that required research to solve, but fortunately there

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

There used to be a gradle plugin for NetBeans. Sent from my Galaxy Original message From: Scott Palmer Date: 2/26/23 08:49 (GMT-06:00) To: Thomas Kellerer Cc: NetBeans Mailing List Subject: Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant? > On Feb 26, 2023, at 7

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

Hi Thomas, I've had a very good experience with Maven for Gephi , which is based on the latest Netbeans Platform. The pom files are fairly well documented so you can probably get some inspiration. If you run into specific issues feel free to reach out. Mathieu

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

Scott Palmer schrieb am 26.02.2023 um 15:47: I am trying to "migrate" an old NetBeans platform application that I created with NetBeans 8.0 about 10 years ago I decided to create a new NetBeans platform application from scratch as there is a lot of stuff I would do differently today.

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

> On Feb 26, 2023, at 7:14 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to "migrate" an old NetBeans platform application that I created > with NetBeans 8.0 about 10 years ago > > I decided to create a new NetBeans platform application from scratch as there > is a lot of stuff I

Re: Creating a new platform application: Maven or Ant?

IMHO, the difference is the maven's declarative approach instead of ant's imperative one. Maven "style" is all about default behavior/naming that you should follow unless you have some good reasons not to. Maven help and docs are very useful, and there's many pom.xml ... to copy ! Have a