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Linux Users: run JDK 5.0!
Posted by tball on March 14, 2005 at 01:33 PM | Comments (5)
I've been running NetBeans for several months on 5.0. Today I built the development version of 4.1 from scratch and then ran it. The IDE was slower and ugly, and I thought "oh no, what have they broken?"
Then I realized what I did ("Doh!"): the build requires that you set your JAVA_HOME to 1.4, and I forgot to reset back to 5.0 before running it. What a difference the new JDK makes! NetBeans is faster, prettier, easier to use. Sometimes you don't realize how good the 5.0 JDK is until you forget to use it.
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I want it on my mac :-(
Luckily there are rumours that it may be available next month! I can
Posted by: bblfish on March 15, 2005 at 07:48 AM
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I'd also like to chime in and say how well it all works under Linux/X86_64. I'm running Fedora Core 3 (x86_64) and Java 1.5.0_02/X86_64 and it worked perfectly out of the box. Time to figure out if that pesky 2GB heap limit still exists in Java 5. :_)
Posted by: markswanson on March 17, 2005 at 06:25 AM
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Note: Java Web Start IS NOT INCLUDED IN x86_64 :-(
The RFE to recompile javaws to make a 64-bit version is over three years old :-(
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4626735
Posted by: markswanson on March 17, 2005 at 11:44 AM
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So download a Mustang (J2SE 6.0) source shapshot and build it yourself. My guess is that even if it is a bit of a hassle, it beats waiting another three years. ;-)
Posted by: tball on March 17, 2005 at 12:01 PM
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The issue of having to install javaws separately for Linux can really kill Java on the Linux desktop . I've heard a few people complaing about it. Time for us to pull up our socks & address this RFE.
Posted by: bharathch on March 14, 2006 at 07:09 PM
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