Does anyone still want netbeans project files for building/running client demos ?

[Antonio Vieiro]

Hi,

No need to open-source anything, no.

I'll take a look at the demos as time permits. We may want to exploit JEP-330 when possible too.

Cheers,
Antonio

El 13/6/25 a las 19:17, Philip Race escribió:
> I am definitely up for a volunteer for this !
> 
> J2Demo, Stylepad and SwingSet2 are completely missing netbeans projects.
> As I think I mentioned in the bug report, that's because when they were open-sourced,
> the project files, because they live in a parallel directory, were overlooked.
> I don't think it is worth open-sourcing those non-working projects now as a starter unless
> you absolutely need them but I doubt you do. Same pattern as all the others.
> 
> You can use the bug ID 8359381  I submitted in your PR
> 
> -phil
> 
> On 6/13/25 1:54 AM, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yes, those "nbproject" files are very outdated and can't even be opened with the latest NetBeans versions.
>>
>> Demos are still shipped by different people [1].
>>
>> I think it's worth updating and keeping them around, because it makes it easier for newbies to open them in an IDE and experiment with them.
>>
>> I can update them to the latest NetBeans versions if you want.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio
>>
>> [1]
>> https://packages.debian.org/es/sid/amd64/openjdk-23-demo
>> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/java-25-openjdk/java-25-openjdk-demo/index.html
>>
>> El 12/6/25 a las 20:49, Philip Race escribió:
>>>
>>> I just submitted https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8359381
>>> -----
>>> There are netbeans projects for the client demos.
>>>
>>> % ls src/demo/share/nbproject
>>> README.txt jfc project.xml
>>> % ls src/demo/share/nbproject/jfc
>>> FileChooserDemo Notepad TransparentRuler
>>> Font2DTest SampleTree
>>> Metalworks TableExample
>>> -----
>>>
>>> The question, as posed in the subject line, is do we really need to keep these?
>>> I'd like to delete them if there's no one who is interested and willing to maintain them
>>>
>>> -phil.
>>
>>
> 

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