Bug 798117 - Visualvm does not have correct directory structure to be supported in NetBeans
Summary: Visualvm does not have correct directory structure to be supported in NetBeans
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: visualvm
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: jiri vanek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-28 05:22 UTC by James Livingston
Modified: 2016-02-22 00:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-04-25 09:17:54 UTC
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Description James Livingston 2012-02-28 05:22:59 UTC 
The visualvm package uses the "visualvm" and "profiler" directories under /usr/lib64/visualvm/ to store it's files, and depends on the netbeans-platform to provide the underlying platform (/usr/share/netbeans/platform12)

While that works for running visualvm, it means that NetBeans can't detect it correctly to add support as a new Platform for developing against, for example if you want to write a VisualVM plugin.


It doesn't detect it correctly because there is not platform installation in /usr/lib64/visualvm/. This can easily be fixed by adding a symlink for /usr/share/netbeans/platform12 as /usr/lib64/visualvm/platform, which fixes the problem for me.


To test, run Netbeans and use Tools->NetBeans Platforms, click Add Platform and navigate to /usr/lib64/visualvm. Netbeans should automatically populate the platform name with VisualVM 1.3.2 (or whatever version you have).
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