Hello all
When creating a new project in NetBeans 18, one of the offered options
is "Java with Ant > Java Modular Project". This is, to my knowledge, the
only form of all NetBeans projects to offer Java Module Source Hierarchy
support. The Module Source Hierarchy is a new way to organize source
code introduced in Java 9 (the old way is called "Package Hierarchy")
[1]. Not many developers are aware of this layout, maybe because neither
Maven or Gradle support it yet. However the fact that NetBeans Ant
supports this layout very well proves that it is possible in NetBeans.
I tried to explain what is Module Source Hierarchy, together with its
implication for a Gradle project, in [2]. The Gradle team is considering
to provide some support [3]. In the meantime, Gradle's flexibility makes
possible to use Module Source Hierarchy anyway, but the result in
NetBeans is currently not good (by comparison, it is okay in IntelliJ).
I would like to improve that with patch contributions, but I have no
knowledge of NetBeans internal. Can someone point me to which classes I
need to look at please?
The first step would be to have NetBeans to properly shows JPMS module
names. Currently it only shows "Source/Test Packages" with directory
names for all modules (screenshot at [4]). What would be the classes to
edit for controlling the tree shown in the "Project" tab for a Gradle
project?
Thanks,
Martin
[1]https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/specs/man/javac.html#directory-hierarchies
[2]https://geomatys.github.io/draft/Modularization.html
[3]https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25974
[4]https://geomatys.github.io/draft/sis_gradle_netbeans.png
