Welcome to NetBeans IDE version 3.2, a modular, standards-based integrated
development environment (IDE), written in Java. It currently has support for
Java, but its architecture lends itself to supporting other languages as well.
This README gives you the basic information to help you install and run the
IDE.
Minimum configuration: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, or NT with a P133 processor, 64 megabytes of RAM, and 40 megabytes of disk space.
Recommended configuration: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, or NT with a P300 processor and 128 Mbytes of RAM.
Optimal configuration: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, or NT with a P300 processor and 192 Mbytes of RAM.
Note: If you have 64 Mbytes, you should set
the configuration file (ide.cfg) startup flag to
-Xmx48m.
NetBeans requires the Java 2 SDK, v. 1.3 for the Solaris environment. The latest SDK is available for download from http://java.sun.com/javase/index.jsp.
Minimum configuration: OpenVMS 7.2-1 or later with at least a 500MHz
Alpha processor, 128 megabytes of RAM, and 75,000 blocks of disk space. Recommended configuration: OpenVMS 7.2-1 or later, 667MHz Alpha processor,
256 megabytes of RAM.
Since NetBeans is written in pure Java, it should run on any working implementation
of Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition. People have reported success running the IDE
on other platforms as well, but we don't have specific numbers to give you here.
For all platforms you can download the .zip or the .tar.gz archive file and
unpack it on the hard disk using your favorite tool. Then you must customize
the startup parameters to tell the IDE where to find the JDK. Please read the
section below for details.
On Microsoft Windows platforms you can download and run an .exe point-and-click
installer, which will guide you through the required steps.
On OpenVMS
Download the OpenVMS NetBeans self-extracting archive to
your OpenVMS system. You may want to put this file into
its own empty subdirectory since documentation and the
actual installable kit will be created there.
Assure your default directory is set to the directory
where the NetBeans archive was downloaded.
Execute the command: $ RUN kit_name
Replace kit_name with the full name of the
self-extracting
archive which you just downloaded. The contents of the
archive will now be extracted to your directory.
View the installation documentation which was created in
the extraction process and follow the steps contained in
the guide to complete the installation.
On MacOS X
Untar, unzip or use StuffitExpander to extract NetBeans. Note:
unzip is part of developers tools, so it is not available in
normal installation and don't forget to use gnutar instead of
tar.
If you have root access on the machine, copy dt.jar to: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Clases
and make a symbolic link from: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/Home/lib
to your copy of dt.jar in the Classes directory.
To make a symbolic link, use the command ln -s target linkname,
so from the directory ...1.3/Home/lib/ above issue the command
ln -s ../../Classes/dt.jar .
If you do not have root access, copy dt.jar to some directory you can
access, let's say ~/Library/Java
To launch NetBeans open Terminal and go to the netbeans/bin
directory. Check that runide.sh has execute permissions,
otherwise issue: chmod a+x runide.sh
If you have the link to dt.jar in: [ ... ]Versions/1.3/Home/lib, start NetBeans in
the standard look and feel with: ./runide.sh -jdkhome /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
If dt.jar is in ~/Library/Java use: ./runide.sh -jdkhome /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home -cp:a ~/Library/Java/dt.jar
The -jdkhome switch can be omitted if you set the environment variable
JAVA_PATH or JDK_HOME to: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
NetBeans can be started in Aqua look and feel using ./runide.sh -jdkhome /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home -ui com.apple.mrj.swing.MacLookAndFeel -fontsize 10
Note that settings are incompatible between Aqua and normal look and feel,
therefore it is a good idea to have two different user directories if you want
to test both normal and Aqua look and feel. Use the -userdir
switch to set different user directories.
The IDE is run by a launcher. There are several variants of it for
Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms. The launchers are placed in the
bin subdirectory of the installation directory.
For UNIX, the Bourne shell script runide.sh is the launcher.
For Microsoft Windows,.EXE executables, runide.exe and runidew.exe, are the launchers. (The runide.exe is Microsoft Windows console applications. When run, a console opens on the desktop with stderr and stdout output from the Java program. You can type Ctrl-Break to get the thread dump, or type Ctrl-C to quit the whole program. The file,
runidew.exe is window application. Otherwise it works exactly the same way. This is
similar to java.exe and javaw.exe.)
For OS/2runideos2.cmd is the launcher.
For OpenVMSrunideopenvms.com is the launcher.
The launcher loads the JVM (1.2 or compatible), builds the IDE's classpath,
passes it along with some default parameters to the JVM, and lets the
JVM launch the Java application. It also restarts the IDE after an auto
update. You can specify additional options:
-h -help
prints usage
-jdkhome jdk_home_dir
use the specified JDK version instead of the default one. By default the
loader looks into the Windows registry and uses the latest JDK available.
-hotspot -server -client -classic
explitcitly specifies the JVM variant to be used
-cp:p additional_classpath
prepends the specified classpath onto the IDE's classpath
appends the specified classpath to the IDE's classpath
-Jjvm_flags
passes specified flags directly to the JVM
-ui UI_class_name
use a given class as the IDE's LookAndFeel
-fontsize size
use a given size in points as the font size for the IDE user interface
-locale language[:country[:variant]]
use specified locale
-userdir userdir
explicitly specifies the userdir which is the location
where user settings are stored. If this option is not used on UNIX the
location is ${HOME}/nbuser32, on Windows the launcher will asks the user
to specify the userdir and stores the value in the registry for later use.
On UNIX you can modify the shell scripts yourserlf to suit your needs.
On Microsoft Windows options can also be put in the file
${IDE_HOME>/bin/ide.cfg. The .EXE launcher tries to read this file before it
starts parsing the command line options. In the ide.cfg file you can break the
options into multiple lines.
You can use the Settings Import Wizard which is launched automatically on
th first start of the IDE to import settings from NetBeans 3.1.
If you used multiuser installation for previous version of the IDE please
use the -userdir userdir switch described in the
Startup Parameters section to point the
launcher to your user directory. This will import your settings
automatically.
If the JAXP 1.0 is installed in your jre/lib/ext
directory the IDE will not work well because of the clash with
XML parser used in the IDE.
If you use JDK 1.2.x the JNDI module will be disabled.
The reason is that the 1.2.x JDK does not contain the JNDI.
The JNDI reference implementation can be downloaded at:
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi.
After upgrade the new version of IDE doesn't know about previous user
directory, so correct mounting of "(userdir)/Development" directory is
not possible. User is notified and has to mount this directory again
in NB 3.2.
On MacOS X
Expand sign in tree view is not drawn correctly in normal L&F.
Debugging is very slow.
MDI does not work in Aqua L&F.
Windows are not redrawn after window maximizing and after Netbeans hide/unhide.
Hint Use Meta-Click to simulate right mouse click.
Hint Live window resizing can be disabled on slower machines
with the following option -J-Dcom.apple.mrj.application.live-resize=true
RedHat 7.1 contains updated versions of glibc and libpthread libraries tailored to a
specific processor type. Those libraries cause java VMs from Sun and IBM (and maybe others)
to hang up or crash. You can do one of the following:
Edit the wrapper script that launches java VM. It's named $jdk_home/bin/java - or
simply type pico ‘which java‘
Add a statement export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
at the beginning of the script (after the leading comments)
Edit $netbeans_root/bin/runide.sh and add the above statement at the beginning of
the script
The What's New document, in the installation directory, contains the list of new
features and information especially useful to users who upgrade from an older
version of the IDE. To browse the online help documentation, run the IDE, go
to the Help menu and choose Contents.
There is extensive information on the NetBeans project website,
http://www.netbeans.org/. Included on
the website are a FAQ and instructions on how to subscribe to mailing lists
where you can post questions, comments, or help others.
As NetBeans is an OpenSource project you can get access to the source code,
bug tracking system etc. on
http://www.netbeans.org/.
