maven noob

[desertman314]

Hi ,

I am new to Netbeans and Maven. I have a directory with pre-existing java files and a maven.xml file. I don't understand how to pull this as a project into Netbeans . If I use File->Open Project and browse to that directory, nothing shows up. When I use File->Open File I can open maven.xml, and it shows up in the navigatator box, but what do I do next?

Thanks from the desert!

[mkleint]

if you have a maven.xml file, it means you have a maven1 project, which
is not supported by the IDE. Only maven2 is.. you need a pom.xml file in
the project base directory.

Milos

desertman314 wrote:

[desertman314]

Hi,

Thats interesting, why don't I see that documented anywhere? I'm sorry, maybe I'm just getting old, but this thing seems to make my life harder rather than easier.

In an effort to understand the process better, I decided to take a different approach. I built by hand a working "build.xml" file and used ant (1.7.1) to compile and run it. Everything went fine.

In the process, following normal protocol, I created a folder named "build" to store the class files.


Then I opened NB and proceeded as follows:

->New Project with existing sources.

I re-iterate:

-->>with existing sources<<-

because it doesn't seem to know what to do with them. If it does, where is it documented. It would seem a particularly important feature to new users (unless you mean kids who are completely new at this) who would be more likely have pre-exisitng code.

First NB complains about build folder, so I delete it (so much for the pre-existing sources)

Then I point it to the two source directories. Of course, one is the file with "main".

Next NB can't identify the right file with main, it brings up a box and I pick the one that has "main" for NB.

Then I try to build and run it.

("main" is in WSDLCrawler.java)

I get these errors:


run:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - cannot find symbol
symbol: class MessageReceiver
at ie.moguntia.webcrawler.WSDLCrawler.<clinit>(WSDLCrawler.java:5)
Could not find the main class: ie.moguntia.webcrawler.WSDLCrawler. Program will exit.
Exception in thread "main" Java Result: 1

BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 17 seconds)


Besides wasting my time, I would have thought NB would provide for new uswers a smoother transition here, I should be able to point it at an exisiting project that functions perfectly (built with ant 1.7.1) that NB presumably knows about.

Well, it didn't, and besides that I cant find any documentation on something you might consider important for a new user.

In the mean time, could you guys start to consider usability issues for us older programmers (and Im not even that old, only 102 since yesterday), we're growing in numbers and need something to do besides chasing the nurses around here (hey you guys will be old too someday!!). I used to use Borland JBuilder, ten years ago or more, back in the day, it was simple and easy to learn. Now you've got all these new fangled city-slicker gadgets to deal with

Thanks from "old and in the way" (and in the desert!)

[mkleint]

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