Thanks Juan. I did have it installed. I use maven projects and haven’t been on
ant for some time.
I did uninstall nb-javac as it doesn’t allow newer language features. For
example if you run with jdk14 you get record support which is a preview feature
in jdk14 (hope it sticks btw).
> On 6 May 2020, at 15:37, Juan Algaba wrote:
>
> My memory failed me, it's not a dialog, but a notification:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3743d8d20e8760be2c91da7c236382a63d60358aca4415ba5743b7a3%40%3Cusers.netbeans.apache.org%3E
>
> I believe it's not installed by default because it wasn't donated (and
> won't be apparently) to Apache, and also because some users report
> issues caused by it when not running
> on JDK 8:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3743d8d20e8760be2c91da7c236382a63d60358aca4415ba5743b7a3%40%3Cusers.netbeans.apache.org%3E
>
> Here's an overview of nb-javac
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Overview%3A+nb-javac
>
> What I gather from the mailing list is that Netbeans is clearly moving
> away from nb-javac. What I don't understand is if it's also moving
> away from CoS and "Copy Static Resources" or maybe implement it in a
> more maintainable way (like, only for Maven/not-JDK8 users)
>
> I personally run netbeans 11.3 on OpenJDK 11.0.7 and my ant web
> project is compiled with that same JDK using --source 8, and haven't
> encountered any issues. Out of curiosity can I know what type of
> project, JDK version, and source level you are using?
>
>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:02 PM Juan Algaba wrote:
>>
>> I'm on 11.3, ant-based web app, and do have CoS.
>> Make sure nb-javac plugin is installed in Plugins -> Installed ->
>> Search nb-javac
>> NB should offer you to install it, but IIRC it may not if you open an
>> existing project, if that's the case try creating a new java web
>> project to see if it triggers that dialog.
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:27 PM Brett Ryan wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, I've been wanting to switch off of NB 11.0 for some time, however;
>>> the one thing that is stopping me is CoS is not working for web
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> Since moving from 11.0 the Build > Compile > Compile On Save is now greyed
>>> out.
>>>
>>> Run > "Deploy on Save" is enabled but appears to do nothin, as is "Copy
>>> Static Resources".
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Juan Algaba
>
>
> --
> -Juan Algaba
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