The recommended way of registering an NBM file in an update center is to add a module project to a module suite project, and to then choose Create NBMs from the module suite project's contextual menu. For details, see Generating an Autoupdate Descriptor.
However, if you do not want to include your module project in a suite for purposes of generating the autoupdate descriptor, you can create the autoupdate descriptor manually.
To manually register an NBM file in an update center:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE module_updates PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Autoupdate Catalog 2.3//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/autoupdate-catalog-2_3.dtd"> <module_updates timestamp="00/00/15/24/01/2006"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE module_updates PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Autoupdate Catalog 2.3//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/autoupdate-catalog-2_3.dtd"> <module_updates timestamp="00/00/15/24/01/2006"> PASTE THE CONTENT OF INFO.XML HERE <license name="no-license.txt"><![CDATA[[NO LICENSE SPECIFIED] ]]></license> </module_updates>