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Hi, This may have slipped under the radar as maybe no-one does crazy stuff like this. We are building an application using netbeans which uses a lot of flat files and inputs or resources. Netbeans is clever enough when doing a build to copy the files from the source directories to the appropriate sub-dirs in the project's classes directory substructure. An interesting thing happens if you want to leave them out of the jar file (for size purposes) by excluding for example "*.fpl" as well as *.java and *.form. What happens is that netbeans does not copy the files into the classes directory structure either. This may be intentional, but its not obvious to me why Ariel
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If I understand you correctly, the build directory would and should contain files that will appear in the final JAR package only. Otherwise it might arrive to situations where the project runs fine within the IDE, but fail / behave differently in the distribution form. IMO this is not an issue against the IDE at all. If you want to strip out certain files to be packaged, which is a special case in itself, override the appropriate Ant target inside build.xml of your NetBeans project, e.g. -pre-jar. I'd suggest closing this issue as "won't fix".
This bug was reported against NetBeans IDE 6.0 or an older release, or against a non-maintained module. NetBeans team does not have enough resources to get to this issue, therefore we are closing the issue as a WONTFIX. If you are interested in providing a patch for this bug, please see our NetFIX guidelines for how to proceed. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you. The NetBeans Team