How to include predefined set of netbeans platform modules in maven project?

Question

I am working on maven netbeans platform project consisting of several modules. I need to depend on some modules (say java.source module), but when I try to run the application, it reports, that required modules are not installed. And event despite I have dependency on java.source declared in my pom.xml

I think, that I have to tell maven somehow, to install (and turn on) these modules in the final assembled application before my module is loaded.

How could I do something like this?

UPDATE:

When I try to create complete netbeans application project from maven artifact and add Java Source API as a dependency into pom.xml... when I run the application, window with following message appears:

Warning - could not install some modules: Editor Library 2 - None of the modules providing the capability org.netbeans.modules.editor.actions could be installed. Editor Indentation for Projects - The module named org.netbeans.modules.editor.settings.storage/1 was needed and not found. Editor Indentation for Projects - The module named org.netbeans.modules.options.editor/1 was needed and not found. Project UI API - No module providing the capability org.netbeans.modules.project.uiapi.ActionsFactory could be found. Project UI API - No module providing the capability org.netbeans.modules.project.uiapi.OpenProjectsTrampoline could be found. Project UI API - No module providing the capability org.netbeans.modules.project.uiapi.ProjectChooserFactory could be found. Editor Error Stripe Impl - The module named org.netbeans.modules.editor.errorstripe.api/1 was needed and not found. Java Source - The module named org.netbeans.libs.javacimpl/1 was needed and not found. Java Source - The module named org.netbeans.modules.editor.indent.project/0-1 was needed and not found. Java Source - The module named org.netbeans.modules.java.preprocessorbridge was needed and not found. Java Source - The module named org.netbeans.modules.options.editor/1 was needed and not found. Java Source - The module named org.netbeans.modules.parsing.api/1 was needed and not found. Editor Settings - No module providing the capability org.netbeans.api.editor.settings.implementation could be found. Diff - The module named org.netbeans.modules.options.editor/1 was needed and not found. 11 further modules could not be installed due to the above problems.

I mean something like if you are creating netbeans platform application (without maven)... you can specify >platform< modules to be included in final application. How can this be made with Maven? — Martin Vejmelka

Thomas Praxl Thomas Praxl · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-27T09:03:05

The error-message "Module dependency has friend dependency [...] but is not listed as friend" means that you need to specify an implementation version of org.netbeans.modules.options.editor. You can achieve this by editing src/main/nbm/module.xml to contain the following entry (I didn't use the actually needed values here. Make sure to find out which values to enter for id and explicitValue to satisfy the dependencies (You can find explanations / instructions in the article linked below):

<dependencies>
   <dependency>
        <id>org.netbeans.modules:org-netbeans-modules-editor</id>
        <type>impl</type>
        <explicitValue>org.netbeans.modules.editor/1 = 201107282000</explicitValue>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

I'm pretty sure that the following article will explain some issues and help you find out the needed values for id and explicitValue (language is english, author is me):

http://blog.macrominds.de/2011/08/open-favorites-per-default-in-netbeans-rich-client-platform-maven-standalone-application/

I'm currently having related problems with my application, so I might come back with a more concrete solution in a while.

How to include predefined set of netbeans platform modules in maven project?

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