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When adding a free-form project as a dependent project of a standard project, NetBeans 4.0 can't seem to locate any JAR files, even though the free-form project has set its Output Files to list the JAR files. As a result of this, we can't debug free-form projects without explicitly adding its source path and jar files to each separate application project that uses it. This is *very* cumbersome for free-form projects with multiple source directories and multiple JAR files. Since the IDE has the required information, it should be able to figure this out. This is causing problems for users of Java 3D and Project Looking Glass, and people are complaining about this on our discussion forums.
This will be fixed in 4.1. If your freeform project produces only one jar file then everything is OK.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 50484 ***