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| <h1 class="sect1">Restructuring of Project Templates in Apache NetBeans</h1> |
| <div class="blogdate">Friday February 01, 2019</div> |
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| <p>There’s been lots of discussion in the Apache NetBeans community about how best to express the fact that |
| Apache Maven and Apache Gradle are more modern choices to be aware of than Apache Ant, |
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| <p>Here’s what we seem to have reached consensus around, i.e., |
| move all Ant-based project templates into a separate Ant-specific folder, |
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| <p>With the above, someone is less likely to simply go to the no-longer-existing Java category |
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| By default, the user of Apache NetBeans is now encouraged to consider Apache Maven and Apache Gradle first. |
| The old Ant-related categories are still there, so as not to confuse anyone completely, just structured within a lower ranked "Java with Ant" category. |
| The above also solves the discussion re "Java EE", i.e., here the idea, from discussions, is to name the category "Java Enterprise".</p> |
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| <p>At startup, all categories are closed, i.e., none is more prominent initially than any other.</p> |
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| <p>An objection one could have is that, if you’re a complete Java newbie, you won’t know what Maven, Gradle, or Ant are. |
| Well, that has always been the case and NetBeans has artificially hidden that choice by having a category simply named "Java", |
| which then resulted in everyone ending up with Ant-based projects. To turn that around and have a category simply named "Java" |
| that results in Maven-based projects is probably not right either, i.e., a careful balance needs to be struck.</p> |
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| <p>Hoping that all factions in this lengthy discussion are relatively satisfied with this approach. :-)</p> |
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| <p>Issue: <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2040">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2040</a></p> |
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| <p>Pull request: <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/1115">https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/1115</a></p> |
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