Hi Emilian, Thank you for your response. I had thought that my email got completely unnoticed, or worse, simply ignored, for the reason you touched below: it's not something that you (officially) support. Just one more reason to be more than happy for any response I get.
To get to the topic: I have already posted this in the plugin's site on Github (https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-netbeans/issues/126) but that plugin is not maintained any more (cited reason: lack of users, but obviously there's more to this than meets the eye). So i thought I may try my chances getting some guidance in the netbeans group and perhaps, really just perhaps I could get it work - as long as it would not involve changing netbeans internals, just adding some callbacks to the plugin - or what not. Anyway, I'll try as you suggested on JIRA. The Compile on Save feature is one of the best features of netbeans which makes my productivity with Java EE an order of magnitude higher. Now if I could combine this with the sparseness and advanced capabilities of Kotlin, that would be a killer combination. This would be something that would not be possible (AFAIK) with any other IDE today. M. ________________________________ From: Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 13:28 To: Mátyás Bene Cc: us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Compile on Save for a Kotlin/Maven project We don't officially support Kotlin out of the box, so it's might be worth also bothering the Kotlin plugin authors so they see they also have NetBeans users and have to support other IDEs too. I don't believe Compile on Save for Maven projects really executes Maven as it would be too slow I guess. It might do something more low level which explains why it probably doesn't work for Kotlin projects. This might be a workaround we could do on NetBeans side. Please report it on JIRA and reference in it the Kotlin-NetBeans plugin issue you also posted. --emi -------- Original Message -------- On 13 February 2018 1:15 AM, Mátyás Bene <notabe...@hotmail.com> wrote: Dear Netbeans pros, Assuming I have a maven based KOTLIN project by following the guide here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-maven.html and using the Kotlin plugin for NB. I am wondering how to enable to Compile On Save in Netbeans 8.2 so that changes in .kt files are picked up and recompiled automatically? While the FAQ http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqCompileOnSave states that for maven projects it actually executes the corresponding maven goals (phases?), it does not really seem like the kotlin-maven-plugin was called. Any ideas? Or is Netbeans filtering files that actually trigger the CoS feature to those with the '.java' extension? M.
