Phil I think the error dialog saying
Feature FeatureInfo[java] is incomplete: some module(s) are missing: org\.netbeans\.libs\.javafx\.(linux|win|macosx) might be caused by running on JDK8. When I used the option *--jdkhome <path>* to specify jdk-11 (*please check the release notes for the right one*) the error did not appear. Regards Emma On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 15:19, Philip Durbin <philipdur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! I just filled out the survey (late, please give us more notice next > time) and I have a little feedback that I'd like to share here for a couple > reasons: > > - From my perspective, the survey goes into a black hole. If there is any > transparency about what responses have been recorded so far, I don't know > where to find them. If they're available, I'm interested in them. > - The survey didn't allow me to enter any comments. It's all multiple > choice. I have more I would have said in the survey. But maybe that's what > mailing lists are for. :) > > So here we go. > > I've been feeling "stuck" on Oracle NetBeans 8.2 for a long time because > of the lack of Java EE support in Apache NetBeans. The guy at the desk to > me got our Java EE project (Dataverse) working in NetBeans 9 but I didn't > have such a good time with NetBeans 10. > > I'm thrilled to say that this morning I got NetBeans 11 working with our > Java EE project. I'm no longer stuck on 8.2. THANK YOU! > > However, not all is well. Being open source, we try to onboard as many new > contributors as possible to our project and if you follow our dev guide as > it appears now (4.11 for my reference), your first experience with NetBeans > 11 and our project is that it says "(broken)" next to the project name in > the Projects tab. (Screenshot attached.) If you right-click the project and > click "Resolve Problems", this is the error you see: > > Feature FeatureInfo[java] is incomplete: some module(s) are missing: > org\.netbeans\.libs\.javafx\.(linux|win|macosx) > > We don't use JavaFX in our project so it's a very strange error. > > Next I clicked "Help" and then "Online Docs and Support". These show docs > for NetBeans 10 with no mention that I could find of what Java EE > developers are suppose to do. If there are new docs for NetBeans 11 that > you'd like us to look at before you release, please let us know. > > From previous attempts to get our project running on anything newer than > NetBeans 8.2 I knew that I should check out which plugins are installed and > enabled. I don't expect our contributors to know this so I just made a pull > request to improve our dev guide to explain how to go from "broken" to a > Java EE project. > > After activating "Java Web and EE", there is no green checkmark in the > Active column. Some new menu items appear but "clean and build" still isn't > available. I restarted NetBeans and explain this step in my pull request: > > https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/5695 > > In case it helps, I'm on Mac OS X 10.14.3. > > In my pull request I didn't document how to launch NetBeans but maybe I > should since a lot of our contributors are new developers, sometimes > college students, who may not be very familiar with the command line. I > doubt anyone here needs this (and you probably have better ways) but I'll > include my little script below since it's on my mind: > > #!/bin/sh > VERSION='11.0-vc4' > BIN="$HOME/java/netbeans/$VERSION/netbeans/bin/netbeans" > echo "Launching Netbeans from $BIN" > $BIN & > > I guess the other thing I'll mention is that my pull request also includes > the workaround to get the Netbeans Connector Chrome Extension working. > > Finally, I've already given a little feedback on the survey itself, about > how I was confused that you don't let your participants type anything > (multiple choice only) but I'm new to your process. The other specific > thing is that I would have appreciate an "I don't know" option for the > question about performance of NetBeans 10 vs 11. > > Thanks for reading all this! I hope it's helpful! Again, I really > appreciate that Java EE support has been restored and that I'm no longer > feeling held back on old versions of Oracle NetBeans. Thank you! > > Phil > > -- > Philip Durbin > Software Developer for http://dataverse.org > http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
