Getting Netbeans to use OpenJDK

Jeff Palmer jcpalmer at rochester.rr.com
Thu Jun 7 08:25:42 PDT 2012


Well found netbeans.conf on windows, located on Mac.  Ended up just turning Java 6 JDK off in Apple Preference though.

It errors now in Netbeans, which is "Good"

On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Jeff Palmer wrote:

> I have a problem in a JWS application involving the GlassPane.  I thought to switch development temporary from a Windows machine, after 2 days of messy / slow isolation progress.
> 
> - I installed 1.7.0_06_b12 JDK first.  It is in the old Apple Java Preferences.
> - Installed NetBeans 7.1.2.  I never got a prompt of what JDK to use.
> - I added the Java 7 platform to Netbeans.
> 
> When the program is run, I works fine, but in the application there is a spot where it list the Java version & it is 1.6.
> 
> Looked in all the Preferences, but see nothing.  Started looking at the NetBeans directory in terminal, but this is very tedious since Finder is worthless.  Did I do something wrong.  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jeff



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