Is there a way to have JAR dependencies of a Netbeans project provided to another (dependent) project automatically?

Question

Hi everybody,

Assume the following project setup in Netbeans

Project A depending on Project B depending on lib/projectBLib.jar

In my current setup, I have to tell Project A that it depends on projectBLib.jar, otherwise it is not loaded. I would have expected Netbeans to handle dependency chains for me (as other IDEs do). So am I doing something wrong, or do I really have to configure this manually for each project?

Thanks for any suggestions, Peter :)

Answer 1

You can also use Maven and the Maven NB plug-in for this. (If the plug-in is not buggy), when you specify in your Maven pom.xml file that A depends on B, it will do the rest automatically for you.

Answer 2

You are not doing anything wrong. You must add the lib explicitly.

There is an enhancement request that sounds very similar to the question you have raised: http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47507.