By the way, another way to install plugins is to do it manually (mentioned in the original poster as something that has already been taken). at the time of this writing, NetBeans plug-in / module files (* .nbm) could be downloaded from this location .
this also applies to Apache NetBeans 9. (I actually tried this on NetBeans 9 and hope this works on 8.1 / 8.2 as well). the necessary modules are mentioned in the original poster, and in this message from stackoverflow here (the location of the netbeans repository seems to be constantly changing) - I myself downloaded all the org-netbeans-modules-websvc - * .nbm files, just to be safe.
Netbeans 9 boots correctly. one more thing - I was dealing with a project done with NetBeans 6.8 - I had to change the line in project.properties (wscompile.classpath) as mentioned in this Thanx post .
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