Anyway, is there any way currently or maybe in the future that can
easily convert Ant based projects to Maven?
Start by creating a Maven project and then copy and paste the packages
from your Ant-based project to packages in your Maven-based project.
That should get you very far. Though there are several specifics that
you'll need to learn about Maven (many resources available on-line),
e.g., images go in the 'resources' folder, and Maven projects in
general are very strictly structured. Good news: NetBeans has great
support for Maven.
I've made and converted other projects before, but this one is both
JavaFX and is therefor the end-of-the-road with a several dependencies.
Not impossible, but if there was a magic "convert project build system"
it'd make such conversions easier.
I have to disagree with the Maven support, at least when compared to
Ant. Netbeans with Ant makes sure all build dependencies are up-to-date
on build/run while Maven in Netbeans takes the "Do it yourself" approach.
There is, I've noticed, an issue with filesystem jar detection in
Netbeans. I've had my Ant based require the jar outputs of the several
Maven projects. Problem is that if any of the projects have a build
failure, Netbeans will correctly show an error that the dependency is
missing but won't do the same on the next successful build. I have to do
somekind of ritual including switching between files(module-info usually
works), typing letters within them, and mashing ctrl + s in order for it
to rescan and detect the jar files.
Netbeans and Maven, for whatever reason, feels the need to reconfigure
itself everytime a new JDK is used, even if it's the same version(15,
for example) but different builds, resulting me having to wait 5 minutes
to finish whatever it's trying to do.
There is also the issues of Netbeans not showing build errors until you
actually try to build if a project uses removed APIs, like I am with
incubating modules, and a lack of clarity on what the difference is
between "build" and "build with dependencies". I wish there was an IDE
toggle for "always build with deps".
TL;DR Maven support in Netbeans is either way worse than Ant or Maven
just sucks. I wish I could still use Ant, it was truly a blissful
experience compared to Maven, but there isn't any real cross-ide support
nor do you have Maven central.
Gj
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:21 PM Ty Young <youngty1...@gmail.com
<mailto:youngty1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 4/23/20 12:11 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
You'll only get love and respect from us.
File those issues and fight for them on the mailing lists. :-)
If I joined any more mailing lists I think my inbox will implode!
Anyway, is there any way currently or maybe in the future that can
easily convert Ant based projects to Maven?
Gj
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:08 PM Ty Young <youngty1...@gmail.com
<mailto:youngty1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 4/23/20 12:04 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
It's pretty good for you that the people working hard on
this project don't have the opinion of you that you have of
us. :-)
No offense meant! I've just had some very bad experiences
with many different open source projects. I've reported
around 12 different bugs on some projects before only to get
an angry message in return and/or every single one ignored.
Have a nice day. :-)
Gj
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:01 PM Ty Young
<youngty1...@gmail.com <mailto:youngty1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 4/23/20 11:33 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Guess it's time to file an issue. :-)
Here's where you do that:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NETBEANS
I'll be honest, unless I'm confident that someone is
actually going to fix the bug I don't usually report
them. It's not worth my time, or the people who will
inevitably do janitor work by closing ignored bug
reports, to file these. There are already 5(or more)
pages so it doesn't exactly stir confidence that anyone
is fixing them.
Which, to be clear, is fine. I'm not making a big stink
here and demanding anyone fix anything. I'm just saying
that it's not worth anyone's time if there is no
interest in it nor is it worth create yet another
account online in which may have a data breach in the
future.
Anyway, I've signed up and filed, which you commented
on:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NETBEANS/issues/NETBEANS-4233?filter=allopenissues
Gj
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:31 PM Ty Young
<youngty1...@gmail.com <mailto:youngty1...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Bit of a PSA for those that don't build the
in-development(15, right
now) from source, Modular Ant based projects WILL
NOT compile, failing on:
Unable to create javax script engine for javascript
which then points to:
<j2semodularproject1:modsource_regexp
xmlns:j2semodularproject1="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/j2se-modular-project/1";
modsource="${test.src.dir.path}"
property="have.tests.test.src.dir.regexp"/>
I'm guessing this has something to do with
Nashorn's removal since
building spams the console with deprecation and
removal warnings for it
in previous JDK builds. Non modular Ant based
projects seem to still
compile, at least compiling a newly created project
still works.
Guess it's time to move to Maven...
And no, Netbeans 12 doesn't make a difference.
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