Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Did I already say that I Hate NetBeans

Since four months I am using NetBeans on my daily job and things only went downhill from the beginning on. Today I ran into an issue which is particularly annoying because it is not a problem in NetBeans 6.0 and there was not trace whatsoever of what could be the reason for the failure. The implication was more or less that I could not develop anything using the NetBeans UI editor for my Swing application. Eventually the problem could be solved using a different version of the library (don't know what the difference is) but just the mere fact that I ran into an issue and NetBeans just silently ignores a library is dead wrong. Then I rather use a buggy IDE if it gives at least some hints how to resolve problems.

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Posted by schaefera at 5:53 PM in Java

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Comment: Tomas Pavek at Sat, 17 May 1:59 AM

Hi,
this seems like a problem with project classpath that caused all the other ones. Not sure what went wrong, just like you said: it makes no sense if it worked with another version of the library or in older version of NetBeans. It is a very simple case that is often used and tested. If you point me to the library and version that does not work, we will check it. If it is a bug in NetBeans, it will be fixed promptly.

BTW the log file can be accessed from menu View | IDE Log File. Physically it is located under the "user dir"/var/log. The location of user dir (user settings folder) you can find in the About dialog.