NetBeans Java project - Can’t see Libraries

Question

Disclaimer: I’m literally just learning from scratch how to program. Using NetBeans 11 and JDK 12.

In order to follow a tutorial, I need to edit my Libraries settings. However when I right click my project and click properties, there is no Libraries category in the tree. I have done a bunch of searching and the results tell me that it just should be there by default.

How do I get it to appear???

Answer 1

Well I think I figured it out. The tutorial was pointing me towards Libraries for importing dependencies, but it seems Maven doesn’t do things that way. I had to import the dependencies to the relevant dependency folder in the tree. This added it to the Pom file at the same time and now my imports work.