Re: Bundling a JVM for a mavenized project

It is in file build.xml which is in same directory as file
template.xml. That directory is harness/nbi/stub. Anyway, you need to
customize build.xml file.

template.xml will ultimately invoke build.xml.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:22 PM, William Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Peter, it's reassuring to know that it's possible.
>
> If you give me one more hint, how do I override the "-generate-bundles"
> target and <create-bundle> calls? It isn't present in the template.xml file.
> Once I get over that hurdle I can customize things according to my
> requirements, and I'll likely create a document for the knowledge base that
> others can use for hints in the future.
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Peter Hansson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I use my own customized version of the recipe from the DZone article
>> that you reference.
>> ... and I use Maven.
>>
>> Yes, this is somewhat complicated. The problem is that even if you are
>> using Maven it will still be the Ant build scripts from the harness
>> which will be executed when installers are being build. The
>> nbm-maven-plugin will ultimately simply call Ant script. So you need a
>> bit of Ant knowledge.
>>
>> What you can do in nbm-maven-plugin is set the name of the  'template
>> file' ( <templateFile>foo/bar/template.xml</templateFile>) which is
>> really just the starting point of those Ant scripts. Anyway, I copy
>> the Ant scripts and all their associated stuff (what is known as 'the
>> harness') from an IDE distro into my installer project's src dir. Then
>> I have a copy I can customize. Then I let my template file variable in
>> nbm-maven-plugin point to a template.xml file I have in project's
>> 'src' dir, rather than something in the IDE's install directory.
>>
>> See
>> http://www.mojohaus.org/nbm-maven-plugin/build-installers-mojo.html#templateFile
>>
>> How exactly you choose to customize the harness (or rather your
>> private copy of that) depends entirely on your specific requirements.
>>
>> /Peter
>>
>> PS: Bundling of a JRE for the Mac OSX platform hasn't worked in the
>> past but has now been fixed (see
>> https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250103), however it is
>> not in NB 8.2. Will be in next release of if you use a dev release.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:24 AM, William Winder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to bundle a JVM for a mavenized netbeans platform project.
>> >
>> > I've found lots of documentation for configuring the ant scripts, and
>> > although there are a lot of steps it doesn't seem very complicated to
>> > configure:
>> > http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBIBundledJVM
>> > https://dzone.com/articles/including-jre-in-nbi
>> >
>> > https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/installing-the-jre-via-an-applications-installer-via-windows
>> > https://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-nbi.html#bundling-jre
>> >
>> > There is also a lot of detail about configuring the NBI using
>> > nbm-maven-plugin properties here (mainly the ConfigurationLogic.java
>> > file):
>> > http://www.mojohaus.org/nbm-maven-plugin/buildinstexample.html
>> >
>> > But I don't see any option for configuring the value of
>> > "nbi.bundled.jvm.file" which seems to be the missing piece. There is a
>> > template.xml file which I'm hoping can somehow bridge the gap between
>> > the
>> > ant and maven builds, but I'm not clear about how.
>> >
>> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
>