Problem with 'Uncharacterized problems"

To try this for yourself, git clone from git://github.com/bimargulies/autopsy.git, cd to CoreUtils, and fire away.

This is at tag mnbmodule-158. Note that adding in some module.xml dependencies works around this problem. See tip.

Using Maven 3.0.4, I get no error in trunk, and using the mentioned tag I get

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] .../CoreUtils/src/main/java/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/AutopsyExceptionHandler.java:[31,24] error: package org.netbeans.core does not exist

[ERROR] .../CoreUtils/src/main/java/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/AutopsyExceptionHandler.java:[31,24] error: package org.netbeans.core does not exist

[ERROR] .../CoreUtils/src/main/java/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/AutopsyExceptionHandler.java:[42,46] error: cannot find symbol

as expected, since org.netbeans.core is not in compile scope. Nor can it be without the impl dep you added, since this is not a public API.

(API usage tip: rather than supersedes, try position with any number you like, since http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/build/generated/services.txt shows NbErrorManager at no particular position and thus at the very end, so you can run stuff first. Or if you must supersede the default handler, obtain it via Lookup.getDefault().lookup(ClassLoader.class).loadClass("org.netbeans.core.NbErrorManager").newInstance() and handle exceptions gracefully.)

Since I eventually got it to work with judicious use of dependencies in the descriptors, I guess I'll stick to looking to improve the doc.