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Using netbeans 5.5 beta, with or without the enterprise pack, from clean install. Any attempt to open web.xml locks up the PC.
Lock-up occurs when selecting web.xml from the project browser. I think this is related to the web.xml specific editor or it may be a problem with the <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"> as commenting out the attributes allows opening of the web.xml file, e.g. <web-app ><!--version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"-->
And JDK you are running NetBeans on? Might be a dup of issue 74362...
JDK-6-beta2-bin-b84-windows-i586-11_may_2006 With JDK5 I get a never ending loop of NullPointerExceptions when trying to open even empty newly created projects Did a complete strip of all versions of Java and NetBeans and preferences and profiles from my system and completely. On doing about 30 reinstalls from various stages of complete uninstallation of java, jdk and netbeans, I have stumbled on an install that is working again for me. I'm not going to go probing what exactly was going wrong, as I need a working environment to finish a project for a client. I would say that it's a dup, except the issue only affects web.xml and not faces-config.xml as stated in issue 74362
Did you have some older version of JDK 6 (i.e. older than b83) installed at some point? Issue 74362 actually affects also web.xml, ejb-jar.xml and persistence. xml so this could indeed be a duplicate of it.
I think the only builds of JDK6 that I have had installed were b83 and b84. There was also the never ending NPE loop with one thrown every 1/10s under JDK5 However I agree that this could be a dup of Issue 74362, if the JDK5 behaviour was also related. As I said before, I have not got everything working again _for me_ and I am not about to go poking around to see what needs to be done to break things again ;-)
OK, so I'll close this as a dup, although issue 74362 should not exist in b83 or b84 - so please do reopen if you run into this problem still. Thanks for the report. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 74362 ***
Verified duplicate