Hello Mr. Reynolds, Thanks for the response. I think I will stick to ant for now. The way with setting up a separate maven repo seems too much work to me.
In addition I also came across another email to the Dev mailing list where someone had asked for something similar and this seems to be a restriction of the current nbm maven plugin. Regards, Joefoe On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, 01:00 William Reynolds, <wnreyno...@stellarscience.com> wrote: > Presumably your new pom.xml has all sorts of dependency for the netbeans > platform poms, eg: > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> > <artifactId>org-openide-util-lookup</artifactId> > <version>RELEASE111</version> > </dependency> > > <!-- > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.netbeans.api/org-openide-util --> > <dependency> > <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> > <artifactId>org-openide-util</artifactId> > <version>RELEASE111</version> > </dependency> > > (etc, etc - my application has 11 RCP modules in the dependency section) > > > So you can select a given platform using properties: > > > <properties> > <netbeans.version>RELEASE111</netbeans.version> > </properties> > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> > <artifactId>org-openide-util-lookup</artifactId> > <version>${netbeans.version}</version> > </dependency> > > (etc, etc) > > Now if you've got your own version of the the platform jars, then you > will have to set up poms for them and install them to a maven repository > (either your local .m2 directory, done by doing a 'mvn install' in the > build directory for each of your RCP modules, or push them up to an > artifactory). Presumably, your custom modules have their own version > string (or artifactId). For this case you would something like: > > <properties> > <netbeans.version>MY_HACKED_NETBEANS_VERSION</netbeans.version> > </properties> > <dependency> > <groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId> > <artifactId>org-openide-util-lookup</artifactId> > <version>${netbeans.version}</version> > </dependency> > > (etc, etc) > > > Does this help? > > On 11/13/2019 1:55 PM, joe foe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a module that is a toolbar with couple of actions developed in > > ant for a custom netbeans platform application. I would like to move > > the build it to maven . > > > > Issue is , if I want to build this module for a specific version of a > > netbeans platform in Ant , First I add the platform thorough Options > > -> Netbeans platforms and then I just right click the project - > > >Project properties -> choose platform . > > > > How would I do this with maven? I only see the standard netbeans > > versions and don't have any option to select a custom netbeans > > platform (also in project properties) . > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks ! > > > > Regards > > Joefoe > > -- > William Reynolds, Ph.D. > Stellar Science, LLC > wnreyno...@stellarscience.com > www.stellarscience.com > 877-763-8268 x710 (v) > >
