On 2022-06-23 14:36, Christofer Dutz wrote:
I agree that if we use NetBeans it’s definitiely “eating our own (Apache) dogfood” … and yes it’s quite well established. Probably you can create Standalone Applications with Netbeans similar to how you can do that with Eclipse. However, do I imagine, that this would probably be a bit of overkill for this usecase.
There is a case to be made for having these kinds of tools being part of an IDE, i.e. a plugin rather than an "App on NB". So, by being a little clever, the clickable-jar could also be Netbeans plugin compatible, IF that is wanted by people. It is mostly a matter of having hooks for user input that can be hooked into NB's system rather than handled directly. Minor thing if one take care of it up front. And if it is then a plugin, then it is up to someone else to package that as a dedicated NB app, if such desires exist.
Cheers Niclas
