Re: Can't run zipped version of application

This is a PITA.  
I have been dealing with this issue as well with the recent development
of a new NetBeans Platform application. We have a lot of existing
plugins written between NetBeans versions 7.2 and 8.0. Almost all of
them use one of the API's that have 8.0 compatibility bridges. NetBeans
8.1 will detect this and attempt to automatically add these bridge
dependencies. THIS is the problem.   
I found I had to go through all my plugins and module suites and one by
one remove the "8.0 Compatibility" dependencies.  This will cause your
compile to fail because it is retaining a reference to the older
specification of that dependency.  Next you need to go through each
plugin dependency list and remove the base API dependency.   Your code
will still fail to compile but now your class files will 'red line' in
the editor. Now if you click on your compilation error within the
editor and select "Search for Module Dependency"... NetBeans will
automatically pull in the latest 8.1 specification version.  To my
knowledge the three APIs that suffer from this are the FileSystem API,
Execution API, and Progress API.    

TL;DR:	For ALL your modules you are going to have to remove all
FileSystem, Execution and Progress API dependencies, clean the
projects, re-add those dependencies and rebuild.