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A service tag enables automatic discovery of systems, software, and services. A service tag uniquely identifies each tagged asset, and allows the asset information to be shared over a local network in a standard XML format. The requirement is to support this discovery in NB6.0
/shared/data/ccvs/repository/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v <-- netbeans new revision: 1.51; previous revision: 1.50 Product info is added on second start (when userdir already exists) and instance urn is stored in $userdir/servicetag. It is updated on every next start. Of course this is done only if [ -x /usr/bin/stclient ] Side effect is some message printed to console. We can also try to do this asynchronously so that startup is not affected. I did not tested what happens if more users use IDE on the same machine (they will probably get more records/urns in the database).
I enabled the functionality on Linux as well, in case the tagging tools are installed (in /opt/sun/servicetag/bin) repository/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v1.56
Actually, there was a typo, correct version that should work is: repository/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v1.57
This is now removed as we have separate module for this. See issue #123136.