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Motivation: For J2se project exists icon when a library cannot be found in Library Manager. The warning dialog about broken references is show. (BTW the warning dialog is not well designed. There will be nice to place inside it the warning dialog button in order to resolving broken references .) There is the same problem for netbeans module project when its Netbeans Platform is missing.
Desirable but probably not possible for 4.2.
It more serious problem when user switch to new version of netbeans. Is there any plan to implement it?
> It more serious problem when user switch to new version of netbeans Do you mean some concrete problem? I think that situation is getting better gradually. There are currently some clues for the user when something goes wrong. I would suppose to file every concrete problem as separate issue and eventually make a dependency on this one (take this as an umbrella).
No one's working on apisupport so nothing is going to change anytime soon. In the future sometime, the platform-handling infrastructure probably needs to be rewritten to use some more general infrastructure for managing changes to project configuration, so bugs filed now are not likely to be resolved.
I'm not working on APISupport anymore. Reassigning to owner of the component, so the issue is not 'forgotten' forever.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 73741 ***
Not a duplicate. Issue #73741 is about fixing module dependencies. The fix-dependencies target assumes the module is compilable and just removes unused deps; for now it makes no attempt to insert new dependencies for uncompilable sources. This is about showing you a warning when your module dependencies are correct but they cannot be found in your selected platform (or your selected platform cannot be found at all). Also if your Java platform cannot be found.
*** Issue 151106 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
See bug #123464; the current Broken References GUI is unwanted anyway.