What is “a project with a class but no source file”? Gj
On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 11:50, Walter Oney <[email protected]> wrote: > With "Java with Maven" I get a project with a class but no source file. > Attempting to run gives the same apparent error pop-up that there's no main > class. > > Using "Java with Gradle" earns me a message that there's no valid Java > platform for key default_platform. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:45 AM > To: Walter Oney <[email protected]> > Cc: Carl Mosca <[email protected]>; Neil C Smith <[email protected]>; > NetBeans Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: FW: screenshot > > Now can you try to reproduce the same problem with the Java Application > (the first template, right at the top) in “Java with Maven”? > > Gj > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 11:40, Walter Oney <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I chose category "Java with Ant" and project "Java Application" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Oney <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:22 AM > To: 'Geertjan Wielenga' <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > Cc: 'Carl Mosca' <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> >; 'Neil C Smith' <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> >; 'NetBeans Mailing List' < > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: FW: screenshot > > > No, I don’t. Are you using ‘Java with Maven’ or ‘Java with Ant’? > > I must be missing something major. The screen shot plainly shows > that I'm using Apache NetBeans 11.1 with Ant. Normally, I would think that > I've done something wrong, because I learned sometime around 1965 that > computers and well-vetted tools rarely make mistakes. Since this isn't my > first rodeo, I tend to think that something about the automatic class > creation logic is mismatched with the build environment -- probably because > I installed the wrong version of something through ignorance. > > Hopefully, you'll accept a friendly suggestion about how to > provide tech support and/or volunteer help: it never hurts to assume that > you're dealing with an accurate report of a problem from someone who is > missing a crucial piece of information that experienced users possess. In > my salad days, I used to send academic users out of the assistance office > to lookup something in one of the dozens of IBM manuals that were > conveniently mounted in a rack next to the keypunches. I eventually learned > that what was transparent to me as a systems programmer was completely > opaque to real users. > > -- > Walter C. Oney, Jr., Esq. > 267 Pearl Hill Rd., Fitchburg, MA 01420 > Tel.: 978-343-3390 > http://www.oneylaw.com > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > >
