I have a project using the netbeans matissee / gui builder plugin.  I recently reinstalled netbeans and had to reopen my cvs (yes, old school rcs I know) netbeans project.  After struggling through trying to figure out how to get netbeans to open the project, I thought that I would quickly drop this post.

For a long time, the only thing that I could get netbeans to do was to say “unrecognized project; missing plug-in?” when trying to open my project.  I finally figured out how to get rid of that annoying (and scary) message.

 

I “think” all that I did was open some of the files from my project including the matissee / gui builder files. Then I closed the files and then tried to open the project.

 

This time the project tool recognized my project!

 

Thankfully I don’t have to re-add all the files to a new project, which was my last resort.