jMonkeyEngine-sdk/docs/maintaining.md

Maintaining the SDK

This document is only for developers who intend to maintain the SDK.
If you don't fulfill this criteria, feel free to skip that part as it won't help you with anything.
Actually this is not a real document either but simply a collection of links, hints, notes, etc.

How to Release a new Version

Since we have automated builds with travis you only have to tag a commit and it will be released for you.
Keep in mind that I currently have the impression that you can only publish one release at a time.
The OAUTH Key for this deployment is found in the .travis.yml along with instructions on how to generate such a file. You only need this when I'm (MeFisto94) no longer permitted to push to the repo.

The build process with the netbeans installers (ant build-installers) is a bit fragile especially in Travis Environment (small diskspace, no root (because caching)) so handle with care.

What has to be done for a new Version?

Now this part is actually for me so I don't forget it :P

Change http://wiki.jmonkeyengine.org/doku.php/sdk:welcome:3_1 every tag to keep up with the version number and then save it as nbres:/com/jme3/gde/docs/sdk/welcome/local.html

How to Upgrade Dependencies

See nbi/stub/ext/infra/build/products/README for now. It will be included in the docs and so the README will only be a link to that.

See resources/README.md and harness-override/README.md for how to change the Netbeans Icon (on Windows)

How to add a new template to File->New

This is really easy once we had fixed the issue #33.
Basically in your Module, add a package-info.java. For example:

@TemplateRegistration(folder = "Scene", content = "Scene.j3o", displayName = "#Templates/JME3/Scene.j3o", description = "EmptyScene.html")
package com.jme3.gde.scenecomposer;
import org.netbeans.api.templates.TemplateRegistration;

As you can already see here, Folder is where it will appear, content is the package relative path (so you have to place the file inside of the source folder to have it appear in the jar), displayName is the key to look in Bundle.properties. Description HAS TO BE an external file. Neither keys nor in-line works.

IF you are using any .j3XYZ file, it will work fine, .blend also works, however .jpg for example wont.
The thing here is that Netbeans tries to interpret such files as text, replacing Strings such as the name and date (which is useful for source code indeed), but breaks our binary files (since we don't have valid UTF-8).
If you are interested in the background, see Issue 33 and the related code changes, however the simple answer is:
In Module SceneComposer under com.jme3.gde.scenecomposer you'll find the CopyTemplateHandler.java file.
Edit the following line just so it recognizes the appropriate extensions.

return ext.startsWith("j3") || ext.equals("blend"); /* Add your own binary extensions here !! */