Even after working with a Maven-based NetBeans Platform application for a few months, there are still lots of new things that I discover every week. 🙂
Quite a while ago I was looking in detail at the update center for our Maven-based NetBeans Platform application. And I wanted to change the module author that appears in the Plugins UI. Only today did I find out how to accomplish this, and as with all things Maven it is simple once you know how.
In the parent pom.xml of the application, just add the following:
[xml]
Hermien Pellissier
Instructional designer, educational technologist and occasional lecturer who loves travel and photography
in 3.8 of the nbm plugin, author will become a parameter of the nbm goal. In current releases org.name is the default value if not defined in the module descriptor file.
Thanks for the info, Milos. That is something to look forward to! 🙂