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Bug 271039

Summary: please provide a "Java EE" download option which doesn't include glassfish
Product: ide Reporter: athompson <athompson>
Component: CodeAssignee: issues@ide <issues>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: athompson
Priority: P2    
Version: Dev   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description athompson 2017-07-05 18:57:05 UTC 
There was a much earlier bug report requesting this which, despite a great deal of support, was resolved as WONTFIX due to Oracle simply wanting to bundle it with NetBeans. Now that NetBeans is no longer under the auspices of Oracle, this should be revisited.

The reason this is needed is obvious; including Glassfish more than doubles the download size. There is a great deal of bandwidth and time wasted downloading a component which is often not used or already installed. This is especially true with the development builds which can be downloaded daily.
Comment 1 athompson 2017-07-06 17:48:55 UTC 
Bundling GlassFish makes even less sense since NetBeans already prompts you to download it if it's needed and not present.
Comment 2 athompson 2017-07-06 17:58:07 UTC 
The original issue was #118376. Please mark one or the other as a duplicate.