Assistance needed in getting around Bug 255174

In the course of developing a language addon netbeans module, using Maven, I created a language class that, according to the documentation needs the @LanguageRegistration annotation.  However, I have been hit with exactly this bug: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=255174.  

By the way - I would have put this all in a comment on the issue, but I cannot register for an account on the bug tracker - it keeps sending me to community home page every time I click the "Register" link.

In any case, I'm guessing I could add a layer.xml and add what I need manually, but I need to know what to add.  Can someone please help, and maybe update the issue also?