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Bug 131049

Summary:	Need for a Platform Module project based on a standard Library project
Product:	apisupport	Reporter:	plymouthjason <plymouthjason>
Component:	Project	Assignee:	rmichalsky <rmichalsky>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description plymouthjason 2008-03-25 14:49:15 UTC

There should be a way to create a Platform Module project that is based on an existing Library project. When the module
is compiled, it should compile the library project, and import the resulting jar files.  It should also support
code-completion based on the library project's current sources.

It is very annoying to have to create a module-library project and manually update the jar file every time I modify the
associated library project; also, currently, module-library projects have NO support for code-completion.

Comment 1 Jana Maleckova 2008-09-17 09:05:29 UTC

reassign to apisupport for evaluation

Comment 2 rmichalsky 2008-09-17 11:10:14 UTC

Code completion works for me for library built from sources in NB 6.5, could you try it with 6.5?

Regarding manual copying of library jar, there is an easy workaround. Override target "netbeans-extra" in your Library
Wrapper's build.xml and copy the library jar from library project to binary-origin in the wrapper project. Like this:

<target name="netbeans-extra">
    <copy file="../MyLibProject/dist/MyLib.jar" todir="release/modules/ext" />
</target>

That way Library Wrapper always uses latest version of the library jar. Maybe we could support copying jar from external
location in New Library Wrapper Wizard.

Comment 3 rmichalsky 2008-09-17 11:17:04 UTC

See also issue #66275

Comment 4 rmichalsky 2008-09-18 16:24:56 UTC

See also
http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqWrapperModules#section-DevFaqWrapperModules-Using%20a%20wrapper%20module%20for%20an%20existing%20project.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 70894 ***

Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2008-09-22 23:25:54 UTC

Yes.