Hi all, I fuly agree, Ant projects are dead for me. I only use NB Maven projects since several years now and even if in the beginning the transition was not always easy when it came to customs builds, now you can do everything you need with Maven projects as you could with Ant AFAIK.
However, Ant project should still be kept for legacy projects and to run the examples you find in books dedicated to NB. Finally, I would really vote to make the move from Ant to Maven to build Netbeans itself. We then no longer need no use and maintain the nam-repository-plugin. Cheers, JM Borer > On 24 Nov 2018, at 08:53, Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > the Apache NetBeans release 10 is (almost) finished and ready for download. > Time to look forward: Long live Apache NetBeans - the UI for Apache Maven! > > NetBeans is known for its excellent Maven support. Time to bring it to new > level - time to lead all NetBeans newbies directly into Maven hands: > > Whenever one creates new Java project from scratch a Maven project should be > created. > > Currently the default project type is Ant based, but as Jesse Glick (the > author of the Ant based projects integration) once asked: "Is anybody still > using that!?" That is the question! Newcomers use it, but otherwise it is > useless dead end road. Starting new Ant based project in a year 2018 is a > nonsence! > > The current duality of Ant/Maven project support also wastes precious > NetBeans > development resources - features are usually implemented for Ant based > projects first and only then ported to Maven. That's misfocused and upside > down. > > Let's make the switch and offer Maven projects by default. Maven is well > suited for the task: it is standard, well adopted build system. Maven comes > with project archetypes that will serve as great starting templates for our > newly generated project. > > What will change? Not the code, but the presentation: When one invokes "New > Project" in NetBeans 11, there should be: > > Java: > - Java Application > - Java Frontend Application > - Project from Archetype > - POM Project > - NetBeans Application > > Ant(ic)/Java: > - Java Free-Form Project > - Java Modular Project > - Java Project with Existing Sources > - Java Class Library > - Java Application > > Ant(ic)/JavaFX: > - JavaFX Application > - JavaFX Preloader > - JavaFX FXML Application > - JavaFX in Swing Application > - JavaFX Project with Existing Sources > > Ant(ic)/NetBeans Modules: > - Module > - Module Suite > - Library Wrapper Module > - NetBeans Platform Application > > PHP: > // unchanged > > HTML5/JavaScript: > // unchanged > > > The "Java" category will offer only Maven based projects. I hope this change > will be welcomed by NetBeans as well as Maven supporters and will help Apache > NetBeans to move forward and focus on support of technology that matters! > > Best regards and thanks in advance for your support. > Jaroslav Tulach > NetBeans founder & initial architect > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
