Re: Generic Trend or preferred mode of developing plugins

Hej Tushar,

Thanks for the praise and the further details. 

In a classroom situation (many newbies want to try out, what they saw at the presentation) it might be preferable to use ant approach. If the students are not a customized to maven, they would get a false impression of developing plug-ins. Because Maven will "download the whole internet". It's not the fault of NB platform, but it might take too much time if you have limited bandwidth in the course room/time resources in your lecture. 

But Ant-based plugins can be manually converted afterwards to Maven-based ones. IDR Solutions and I blogged about this process. The information is also available in the DevFAQ.

PS: If you want to stick with the Maven approach, there is a goal in the nbm-maven-plugin, which allows you to install your current NetBeans installation into your local Maven repo.

Best regards, markiewb

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Från: "Tushar Joshi" <[email protected]>
Skickat: ‎07.‎02.‎2016 06:47
Till: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Ämne: [nbdev] Re: Generic Trend or preferred mode of developing plugins



On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Peter Hansson <[email protected]> wrote:

Not that Maven is perfect but for plugin development it is quite an excellent choice and Benno's arguments (especially #1) are spot on. I must admit I personally don't bother to contribute to someone else's project if it's Ant based.


Thanks Benno and Peter for your opinion and choices.  I encourage students/developers to learn and try to contribute to the NetBeans Plugins ecosystem, and these opinions will help me choose the right path chosen by most developing Plugins.


I know Benno has developed many plugins and if he advocates Maven then I feel that anyone newly coming into NetBeans Plugin development should start with Maven based plugin now.


I will wait for any other developers here for a different opinion.


with regards

Tushar