Missing Plug-In When Opening Project in NetBeans

I've inherited a java project that appears to have been developed using the NetBeans IDE.

It contains a nbproject subdirectory.

When I try to open the project using NetBeans 6.9 it reports the following error in the Project Name text box:

<unrecognized projec开发者_运维问答t; missing plug-in?>

How can I determine which plug-in it is looking for?

See what's the value of <type> in project.xml. In your case it is <type>org.netbeans.modules.web.project</type>. When you look up this project type on the internet you will find out that you should try installing 'Java Web and EE' plugin.

I have the same problem when i tried to open a symfony project ! Fortunetely, i solved this problem in Netbeans : tools > plugins then i installed php

Good luck ;)

Since Netbeans doesn't leave a record of what plugins it used to create a project, the only thing you can do is install all the plugins. This has been a bug in netbeans for ten years.

To avoid this problem in the future, enable a library folder for the netbeans project (preferences>libraries>Libraries Folder>browse..: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/project-setup.html#projects-shared-libraries