What is the setup steps for NetBeans?

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I have the latest OpenJDK port (August) and have setup JAVA_HOME, LIBRARY_PATH and PATH correctly to run Java programs.

I downloaded the C++ Module package for NetBeans (OS independent version). Then, I went into the netbeans/bin directory and ran the netbeans shell script. It reported some socket connection problems, came up with the License Agreement and splash screen. After accepting the LA, it exited. I tried again and then the splash screen comes up but then exits halfway through the initialization.

Should I download the OS Independent Java package first and then run that or am I missing something else to get it up and running?

Thanks.

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I tried the NetBeans OS Independent Java Package and got similar (failed) results.

[My main interest is to see whether or not their code completion implementation will work well for Haiku C++ development.]

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I was able to reproduce the failure and I’ll be fixing it soon. Maybe in the meantime you could try NetBeans version 7.1.2 which others have had success with.

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hamish,

There appears to be a socket connection issue too. Even in NetBeans 7.1.2, try to download some plugins and see if you’re successful. Sometimes it’s okay on the smaller retrievals, but on the larger ones, I get a connection error part-way through the download, keep trying and then keep getting timed out.

There aren’t any new Java exceptions printed to the terminal from where I started netbeans 7.1.2 except the ones I see on startup which complain about an invalid argument:

java.net.SocketException: Invalid Argument
at java.net.NetworkInterface.getByName0(Native Method)
at java.net.NetworkInterface.getByName(NetworkInterface.java:261)
…and so on

I’m experiencing this in a Virtual Box environment with a Nightly gcc2 hybrid build from August (hrev44575 - Kernel: Aug 23 2012 00:19:21). WebPositive has been working fine connecting to various websites even after testing the time-outs from the plugin retrievals.

[But hey…your Java port is awesome! This entire GSOC group has been absolutely stellar!]

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Yeah, this port is awesome!

Netbeans 7.1.2 runs slightly better for me. Although there a some problems preventing me from actually building/running a program.
My issues:

  • netbeans won’t start unless I delete splash32.png from the settings folder ( .netbeans/cache/var/ or something).
  • the remote development host thinks it has no write permission in the project folder.

This last one is preventing me from actually building/making a program because it does not create some needed make files. Although it is saying it cannot create the project because of lacking permission, it creates the project files and cpp/h files. But after this I cannot add files to the project. From Netbeans sources I understand that it uses a native process to create a folder (Runtime.execute(“mkdir”)) but somewhere in the process the exit code transforms from 0 to 1. Therefore it thinks the creation of the files failed.
Somebody else experiencing the same problems?

I checked if the process exit code is returned correctly with a simple Java program. This works correctly on Haiku-OpenJDK, so the netbeans problem is more complicated.