Many thanks to those that attended to my problem. Modifying the netbeans.conf file as per the link below from Nicholas solved the problem.
On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 2:53 pm, Nicholas <saunders.nicho...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I see this message below I want to see the command which which was > issued. Easiest way to do that is to use maven or javac directly from the > console. My two cents. > > Although, yes, a cursory search does indicate, as suggested: > > https://stackoverflow.com/q/58411279/4531180 > > which has nothing to do with Maven nor Netbeans per se. Unsupported JDK > or something(?). > > > > On 2021-08-04 9:41 a.m., Benjamin Neuman wrote: > > Hey Peter, > That's an odd one. Is the C:\netbeans\java\maven\bin\mvn.cmd executable? > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 7:53 PM Peter Zimmermann <zinn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi NetBeans users, >> >> Although I have significant programming experience I’m new to NetBeans >> and Java and I’m having trouble getting the simplest “Hello World” program >> to run. I keep getting the message shown below: >> >> >> >> Cannot run program "cmd" (in directory >> "C:\Users\User\OneDrive\Documents\NetBeansProjects\HelloWorldApp"): >> Malformed argument has embedded quote: "C:\netbeans\java\maven\bin\mvn.cmd" >> -Dexec.args="-classpath %classpath com.mycompany.helloworldapp.Main" >> -Dexec.executable="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-16.0.2\bin\java.exe" >> -Dmaven.ext.class.path=C:\netbeans\java\maven-nblib\netbeans-eventspy.jar >> -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 process-classes >> org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.5.0:exec >> >> >> >> I’m sure it’s something simple , any help would be appreciated. >> >> >> >> zinn...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > >