Re: netbeans doesn't create lib directory under dist

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:51:30 -0500
Message-ID:
<ppmdnX-KTMJvsLLanZ2dnUVZ_oLinZ2d@comcast.com>
Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:

Lew wrote:

Lew wrote:

NetBeans isn't supposed to put a lib directory under dist/. It goes in
build/. dist/ is where the JAR / WAR / EAR files go.

Nigel Wade wrote:

The dist/ directory of an application is supposed to be self-contained so that
the contents of dist/ can be packaged and shipped as a single entity. dist/
contains the application jar, and dist/lib any jars on which the main jar
depends. The manifest of the application's jar will include lib/whatever.jar in
the classpath for each dependent jar.

By golly, you're right. It sure looks like a NetBeans bug to me.


No actually, it says if you add a folder (instead of a jar) to a
library, it won't put out your /lib anymore. Says so very
inconspicuously somewhere in the help.


Funny, when I went to duplicate the problem I only added JARs, not folders, to
the libraries and it still failed to generate a lib/.

Unless they are also suppressing lib/ when you add Javadoc and source folders
to the library.

--
Lew

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