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Netbeans doesn't seem to like my win2003 server roaming profile. I'm using Netbeans 5.0 on my home network win XP workstations. I recently trade my multiple local user profiles for a single roaming profile. Failure Scenario: Install of netbeans with default parameters (JDK1.5.6). Everything works fine. Logout. Login. Netbeans Exception on startup. Java Platform settings corrupted, no more platform... Adding a platform manualy does not fix anything. Netbeans is unusable :( Workaround: erase .netbeans directory before startup. I loose my settings, macros ... :'( I classified this problem as a P1 DEFECT however this may be a misconfiguration of the platform. I'll try to change my netbeans user profile directory from %USERPROFILE%\.netbeans to %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\.netbeans which will be uploaded and downloaded during login and logout. However on windows platform I'd recommned to move computer local settings (JDK location, Java Platforms, ...) to: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\.netbeans and user specific settings (fonts, macros, ...) here: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\.netbeans
Created attachment 28831 [details] One of the symptoms.Where are the Java Plateforms ?
Created attachment 28832 [details] See the 'The reference to entity "JDKs" must end with the ';' delimiter.' exception
It seems that the roaming profile may not be problem. Instead, it may be my javadoc settings. My javadocs are shared on the network using a CIFS/SMB share. The group policy maps Z: to the net share. So the netbeans JDK javadoc is located here: Z:\Prog\Java\Runtimes&JDKs\jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip Could this possibly the cause of my troubles ? Arg I think I finaly spotted the problem writing the previous question. The '&' in the directory may screw up the XML parser. That explains why the log mention a 'reference to entity "JDKs"' How netbeans handles those special characters in string settings ?
Renaming the directory solved the problem. Somewhere '&','<','>'... should be changed by their respective entity to avoid this kind of problem.
not sure if it belong to java/j2seproject...
Checking in src/org/netbeans/modules/java/j2seplatform/platformdefinition/PlatformConvertor.java; /cvs/java/j2seplatform/src/org/netbeans/modules/java/j2seplatform/platformdefinition/PlatformConvertor.java,v <-- PlatformConvertor.java new revision: 1.16; previous revision: 1.15 done