NetBeans and JDK9

[Ben Evans]

Thank you Martin. I was reviewing the state of the art with various
IDEs today wrt JDK 9.

Very glad to see that NB is out in front.

Ben

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Martin Balin <martin.balin at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Early support for JDK 9 EA builds will be available in NetBeans dev builds
> next week.
> Martin
>
> On 24.11.2015 11:21, Michel Graciano wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>> I am not sure if it fix your issue, but I think you can try this
>> documentation http://wiki.netbeans.org/JDK9Support. As said before, there is
>> a branch which supports the use of JDK 9, but it does not run on top of it
>> yet, but you can use JDK 9 to run your projects.
>>
>> I hope it helps.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> --
>> Michel Graciano
>> Arquiteto de Sistemas
>> Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com
>> <mailto:aph at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 11/04/2015 08:40 PM, Martin Balin wrote:
>>     > Andrew,
>>     > 8.0.2 will not run on JDK 9, same for just being released NB 8.1.
>>     > We are working on JDK9 support in NB, but it is not now
>>     available in NB
>>     > dev builds, it is on branch.
>>     > We will merge the work to NB master soon
>>     > Martin
>>     >
>>     > On 2.11.2015 11:14, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>     >> On 01/11/15 18:21, Martin Balin wrote:
>>     >>> What version are you using?
>>     >>> NetBeans 8.x or some of NetBeans 9 development builds?
>>     >> 8.0.2.  I'm happy to use whichever version you recommend, but
>>     >> I never had much luck with development builds.
>>
>>     I'm running netbeans-jdk9branch-201506180405-javase-linux.sh and I
>>     still get the same error.  It seems to hang for a very long time at
>>     satartup, and then I get a dialog box with
>>
>>     "The package containing the class javax.swing.JComponentBeanInfo was
>>     not loaded."
>>
>>     The stacktrace seems to be this:
>>
>>     org.netbeans.InvalidException:
>>     StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.form.nb jarFile:
>>
>> /home/aph/netbeans-dev-jdk9-201506180405/java/modules/org-netbeans-modules-form-nb.jar:
>>     Dependency failed on package [javax.swing.JComponentBeanInfo]
>>             at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1247)
>>             at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1156)
>>     [catch] at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.installNew(ModuleList.java:340)
>>             at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.trigger(ModuleList.java:276)
>>             at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.restore(ModuleSystem.java:301)
>>             at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:181)
>>             at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:150)
>>             at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:307)
>>             at
>>     org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:123)
>>             at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:747)
>>
>>     Is there a more recent version of netbeans which works with current
>>     JDK9?  I can build it myself if needs be.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Andrew.
>>
>>
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