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If I'm developing my own module suite and cluster, I'd like to be able to have a $cluster/modules/patches/org-netbeans-modules-foo/mypatch.jar, though the foo module is in enterprise2, ide5, etc. core/bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/StandardModule.java would need to be modified. Particularly the section referenced with the comment: // #9273: load any modules/patches/this-code-name/*.jar files first: It would need to loop through several patchdirs (one for each active cluster).
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I usually advocate donating a source code patch to the affected API then hacking around it with patched JAR files. I am going to do that now and close as won'tfix.