Ok, Java 7 is not out yet, but as a programmer, aren’t you eager to try it first hand? Here’s how to add Java 7 to your NetBeans IDE, and get a feel of what is coming up. Go the OpenJDK web site to grab the latest build of the JDK 7. If you have [...]
This is probably old news as this feature has been out for a quite a long time, but I’d like to say to big thank-you to the NetBeans developpers to come up with a nice, very intuitive debugger for debugging multi-threaded applications in NetBeans. Kudos for the good work. As I’ve said in a previous [...]
When you are debugging your code in NetBeans, sometimes, you would like to escalate the privilege of your program to do certain things that are not permitted as a normal user. You can certainly run the command as: sudo gdb <your program> But then, that’s not a very nice environment to work in. Otherwise, why [...]
Curiously, NetBeans has included Java API documentation for a lot of packages, except the API documentation for the Java platform itself. Here is how to add the JDK Javadoc to NetBeans: Download the Java API documentation package from here. Unzip the documentation package. In NetBeans, select Tools > Java Platforms Select your default JDK in [...]
After using Eclipse almost exclusively for Java programming in the last 7 years, and put up with its different problems, which seem to pile up over the years, I finally took a jump and installed NetBeans 6.8 to see how it’s doing recently. The event that triggered the switch was an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 [...]