[FIXED] Netbeans open maven project with pom.yml

Issue

I'm trying to load a maven project in netbeans which contains pom.yml instead of pom.xml.

When I go to the directory where the application is present, Netbeans is not recognising it as a project/app. It is showing up as a regular directory. When I click on the directory, it is taking me right inside instead of opening it.

I checked in the plugins repo to see if there are any related plugins, but unfortunately, there aren't any.

Can anyone help me out please?

Thanks

Solution

The pom.yml is used by the Polyglot for Maven extension. Netbeans has no support for it.

A working solution is to convert the pom.yml back to pom.xml.

with Maven 3.3.1+ run following command

mvn io.takari.polyglot:polyglot-translate-plugin:0.1.15:translate \
  -Dinput=pom.xml \
  -Doutput=pom.yml

note: Newer versions of the polyglot-translate-plugin have a bug see issue #96. Which lead to the error

... A required class was missing while executing \
  io.takari.polyglot:polyglot-translate-plugin:0.1.16:translate: \
  org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlStreamReader

Answered By - SubOptimal
Answer Checked By - Pedro (JavaFixing Volunteer)