Where can I find an offline version of the nb-javac 2.1 plugin?

[Jean-Marc Borer <jm...@gmail.com>]

Hello guys,

My eternal "behind corporate proxy" bites me again. Even though I request
"osuol" to be white listed, I cannot download the updated and fixed version
of nb-javac:

[image: image.png]

Where can I download the required plugins (api, impl, etc)?

Thank you in advance

JMB

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Where can I find an offline version of the nb-javac 2.1 plugin?

[Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@apache.org>]

Are you sure you need to run NetBeans on JDK 8?

Gj

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 17:41, Jean-Marc Borer <jm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thank a lot for your help.
>
> I know that there is lot of fiddling around with the NBMs, but for that
> you must be very comfortable how the update process works and the NBMs
> contents.
>
> What I finally did, was to install NB on a non restricted computer and
> copied over the required items from the user dir, update center, config of
> modules, jars, etc to make NB believe, that I managed to download it. A bit
> of a mess as well.
>
> The problem within a corporate environment is to white-list all the
> required sites and this is extremely difficult when you get redirected to
> various proxies.
>
> Cheers
>
> JM
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:42 AM Stutzman, David K CTR USARMY CCDC C5ISR
> (USA) <da...@mail.mil> wrote:
>
>> I was able to get past this with a bunch of BS.  I'm not sure why the NB
>> team goes to such lengths to package things this way.  Ease of plugin
>> installation in an off-line environment was one of the things that sent to
>> me away from Eclipse and to NetBeans quite a while ago.  Anyway....
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm at home teleworking now and don't have access to the files or I'd be
>> able to help you out more concretely, also working from memory.
>>
>>
>>
>> The first hurdle is getting the actual NBMs since the plugin portal
>> doesn't have the current ones for 11.3.  I used a machine with internet
>> access to add the plugins.  Now NB is interesting here in that it downloads
>> the NBMs into your userdir into a folder it creates, poke around in there
>> to find them.  Don't go through the whole update process, just once it
>> pulls down the files start looking in there.  In some instances NB also
>> leaves them in that folder and when it restarts that's when it installs
>> them.  I believe Geertjan did an article on that many moons ago:
>> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/updatedownload
>>
>>
>>
>>  Once you have the 3 NBMs you're halfway there because those NBMs have
>> remote references to download jars (WHY!??!).  Basically I looked inside
>> the NBMs and found the references to the remote files, downloaded them then
>> replaced the pointers in the NBM with the actual downloaded files.  I think
>> I renamed the jars to remove the version hashes...  Now the signature won't
>> verify which you can't click through in NB so I deleted the signature files
>> from the NBM (I think in META-INF??) that made it signed and you'll get a
>> warning that you can click through, then I tossed those NBMs up on our dev
>> share for my co-workers to use.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck and sorry I don't have the exact steps for you...but it can be
>> overcome!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Jean-Marc Borer [jmborer@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:53
>> *To:* NetBeans Mailing
>> *Subject:* [Non-DoD Source] Where can I find an offline version of the
>> nb-javac 2.1 plugin?
>>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> My eternal "behind corporate proxy" bites me again. Even though I request
>> "osuol" to be white listed, I cannot download the updated and fixed version
>> of nb-javac:
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> Where can I download the required plugins (api, impl, etc)?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> JMB
>>
>>

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Where can I find an offline version of the nb-javac 2.1 plugin?

[Jean-Marc Borer <jm...@gmail.com>]

Hi David,

Thank a lot for your help.

I know that there is lot of fiddling around with the NBMs, but for that you
must be very comfortable how the update process works and the NBMs contents.

What I finally did, was to install NB on a non restricted computer and
copied over the required items from the user dir, update center, config of
modules, jars, etc to make NB believe, that I managed to download it. A bit
of a mess as well.

The problem within a corporate environment is to white-list all the
required sites and this is extremely difficult when you get redirected to
various proxies.

Cheers

JM

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:42 AM Stutzman, David K CTR USARMY CCDC C5ISR
(USA) <da...@mail.mil> wrote:

> I was able to get past this with a bunch of BS.  I'm not sure why the NB
> team goes to such lengths to package things this way.  Ease of plugin
> installation in an off-line environment was one of the things that sent to
> me away from Eclipse and to NetBeans quite a while ago.  Anyway....
>
>
>
> I'm at home teleworking now and don't have access to the files or I'd be
> able to help you out more concretely, also working from memory.
>
>
>
> The first hurdle is getting the actual NBMs since the plugin portal
> doesn't have the current ones for 11.3.  I used a machine with internet
> access to add the plugins.  Now NB is interesting here in that it downloads
> the NBMs into your userdir into a folder it creates, poke around in there
> to find them.  Don't go through the whole update process, just once it
> pulls down the files start looking in there.  In some instances NB also
> leaves them in that folder and when it restarts that's when it installs
> them.  I believe Geertjan did an article on that many moons ago:
> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/updatedownload
>
>
>
>  Once you have the 3 NBMs you're halfway there because those NBMs have
> remote references to download jars (WHY!??!).  Basically I looked inside
> the NBMs and found the references to the remote files, downloaded them then
> replaced the pointers in the NBM with the actual downloaded files.  I think
> I renamed the jars to remove the version hashes...  Now the signature won't
> verify which you can't click through in NB so I deleted the signature files
> from the NBM (I think in META-INF??) that made it signed and you'll get a
> warning that you can click through, then I tossed those NBMs up on our dev
> share for my co-workers to use.
>
>
>
> Good luck and sorry I don't have the exact steps for you...but it can be
> overcome!
>
>
>
> Dave
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jean-Marc Borer [jmborer@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:53
> *To:* NetBeans Mailing
> *Subject:* [Non-DoD Source] Where can I find an offline version of the
> nb-javac 2.1 plugin?
>
> Hello guys,
>
> My eternal "behind corporate proxy" bites me again. Even though I request
> "osuol" to be white listed, I cannot download the updated and fixed version
> of nb-javac:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Where can I download the required plugins (api, impl, etc)?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> JMB
>
>