CougarB
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1 year ago I was using a PluralSight course to study how to get NetBeans working for a PHP/jQuery project I'm working on. PluralSight focuses only on Java. But since it was the only course they had, I tried following along until I ran into installation problems perhaps because installing XAMPP required a different JDK installation. (For the record, my computer, which is set up for XAMPP, did not allow me to set dependencies within NetBeans when it was being used for Java in the PluralSight course.)
So I had to quit that course. Then I found that NetBeans had a learning path that seemed applicable to me, and I started with the HTML 5 learning path — for the same reason that we often start with learning how to print Hello World. Here again, I am stymied because the NetBeans community seems to be entirely focused on Java. If you're not going to support PHP, HTML 5, etc., it doesn't make sense to advertise NetBeans for these languages.
In particular, removing resources for whatever reason without comment and without advising students where to go for replacing those resources doesn't seem fair to students who are trying to learn to use your product. I'm a student, and therefore I don't know so much. I'm trying to learn stuff. It's hard for me if you don't provide a workaround. For the record, I'm 71 years old.
I noticed that the NetBeans Connector was last updated on September 9, 2015, which is more than seven years ago. There has been a huge amount of change in the inspectors for the various browsers since then. I'm curious whether the tutorial for NetBeans and HTML5 is even up to date. For a student, learning from out-of-state information can be worse than no study at all. Out-of-date information should be at least marked as such with a URL or a recommendation about where to get more up-to-date information.
Apache NetBeans version
Apache NetBeans 13
What happened
From "Getting Started with HTML5 Applications" (https://netbeans.apache.org/kb/docs/webclient/html5-gettingstarted.html)
Retrieving the sample [project resources zip file] (https://netbeans.org/projects/samples/downloads/download/Samples/Web%20Client/HTML5Demo-projectresources.zip) resource receives: Page Not Found
How to reproduce
Click the link "project resources zip file" on the page
Did this work correctly in an earlier version?
Apache NetBeans 12.3 or earlier
Operating System
Linux
JDK
11.0
Apache NetBeans packaging
Apache NetBeans binary zip
Anything else
No response
Are you willing to submit a pull request?
Yes
Code of Conduct
Yes