Opened your project without a problem after doing the above. It looks pretty cool in NetBeans. :-)
Gj On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:58 PM Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Most likely the missing keymaps are also related to you simply not having > the Java and Java EE supported enabled -- do that in the New Project dialog. > > I do think we need to look at your use case, i.e., you're someone who > isn't using the New Project dialog at all, and that makes perfect sense in > your case, however it does mean that you're not being given the opportunity > (other than the obscure message about JavaFX) to enable the features you > need. > > Gj > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> And, please, in all these things, do not go to the Plugin Manager, do not >> either activate or enable anything there. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gj >> >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:53 PM Geertjan Wielenga < >> geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> So, it sounds like you're simply opening NetBeans and then opening your >>> project. >>> >>> Instead of that, would be better if you'd first enable Java and Java EE, >>> in the New Project dialog, create a Java project and then a Java EE project >>> and everything will be enabled and you shouldn't encounter this problem. >>> >>> Can you first try the above -- with a fresh userdir, i.e., from scratch, >>> with nothing enabled or otherwise -- and then respond after that? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Gj >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:35 PM Philip Durbin <philipdur...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Sure, it's easy to reproduce both the javafx error and the "dataverse >>>> (broken)" experience, unfortunately. I just reproduced it on a second and >>>> third computer here at home. That makes two Macs and one Ubuntu computer. >>>> Here are the steps: >>>> >>>> 1. Unzip incubating-netbeans-11.0-vc4-bin.zip and launch Netbeans. >>>> 2. git clone https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse.git (I'm on ac6a1fd) >>>> 3. Open dataverse as a project >>>> 4. Observe that Netbeans says "dataverse (broken)" >>>> 5. Right click "dataverse (broken)" and click "Resolve Problems..." >>>> 6. Observe the error "Feature FeatureInfo[java] is incomplete: some >>>> module(s) are missing: org\.netbeans\.libs\.javafx\.(linux|win|macosx)" >>>> >>>> I'm attaching screenshots from the second Mac and the Ubuntu computer >>>> and I'm putting details about their versions of Java below. >>>> >>>> I am *not* saying I want to install the "Java Web and Java EE" support. >>>> Please re-read my original message. There is a difference between >>>> installation and activation. I'm saying that as an experienced Netbeans >>>> users, I'm aware that Netbeans has plugins and so I know to start poking >>>> around in this area. Some of our summer interns are late high school or >>>> early college students and have never touched Netbeans before. It is for >>>> this reason that in that pull request for our dev guide (now merged) that I >>>> explain to go into "Plugins" and to observe that "Java Web and EE" is >>>> already installed but must be activated. On my second Mac no plugins are >>>> activated. When I check the box next to "Java Web and EE" the "Activate" >>>> button becomes available. I haven't clicked "Activate" yet but I'll include >>>> a screenshot. I'm trying to say that seeing "dataverse (broken)" for a Java >>>> EE project is a poor user experience (I don't love the word "broken" in >>>> this context) and that it's non-obvious to new Netbeans users that one must >>>> activate plugins to make the project non-broken. I compensated for this in >>>> our dev guide, explaining how to make our project non-broken from the >>>> Netbeans perspective. >>>> >>>> Emma, thanks for your note about Java 8 vs. 11. Below I'm listing the >>>> Java versions I'm running on the three computers I've tried. >>>> >>>> I'm glad to hear that docs are coming. Docs are extremely important. >>>> >>>> One more bit of feedback is that yesterday from my Mac at work (Mac 1, >>>> below), a number of Keymap shortcuts were missing. The entire >>>> "CommonTestRunner" category was absent, for example. Quitting Netbeans and >>>> restarting it fixed this. Very strange. I did not observe this bug on >>>> either computer at home. Very strange. I reported this yesterday in >>>> #netbeans on freenode, which I understand is piped into your Slack. You can >>>> read what I wrote at http://echelog.com/logs/browse/netbeans/1553727600 >>>> >>>> I hope the feedback I'm giving is appreciated. I've spent a lot of time >>>> on this. To be clear, I voted "ship it!" for Netbeans 11 because I can work >>>> around these issue and guide contributors to our Java EE project to work >>>> around them as well. Again, I'm thrilled that I'm not stuck on Netbeans 8.2 >>>> anymore. THANK YOU! >>>> >>>> Phil >>>> >>>> Mac 1 (work) >>>> OS X 10.14.3 >>>> AdoptOpenJDK 1.8.0_192-b12 >>>> (I can't run `java -version` from home) >>>> >>>> Mac 2 (home) >>>> OS X 10.14.3 >>>> openjdk version "11" 2018-09-25 >>>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11+28) >>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11+28, mixed mode) >>>> >>>> Linux 1 (home) >>>> Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS >>>> openjdk version "1.8.0_191" >>>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build >>>> 1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1-b12) >>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:07 AM Geertjan Wielenga < >>>> geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can you provide step by step instructions from scratch so that we can >>>>> reproduce seeing this error: >>>>> >>>>> Feature FeatureInfo[java] is incomplete: some module(s) are missing: >>>>> org\.netbeans\.libs\.javafx\.(linux|win|macosx) >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Gj >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 7:00 AM Geertjan Wielenga < >>>>> geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I don’t understand why you want to install the ‘Java Web and Java EE’ >>>>>> support in Apache NetBeans 11. Please don’t do that. That support is >>>>>> automatically built into Apache NetBeans 11 for the first time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, no docs yet specific to this release. Once they’re there would >>>>>> indeed be great for you to provide feedback on them. >>>>>> >>>>>> Gj >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 21:50, Emma Atkinson <emma.atkins...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>>>
