In Part 1, we got the Java JDK installed on Ubuntu. Pretty easy. Now we want an IDE, and my favourite is NetBeans. Lots of good stuff in the recently released beta of version 5, so let's do that one. [Update: Of course, you can do this with the second beta, or any of the development builds].
Download netbeans-5_0-beta-bin-linux.bin, make sure JAVA_HOME is defined, and run the .bin. For example:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/
./netbeans-5_0-beta-bin-linux.bin
Note: If the installer can't find the jdk - because you haven't set JAVA_HOME - you might get the message: "The wizard cannot continue because of the following error: could not load wizard specified in /wizard.inf (104)". Hmmm. Could be deemed rather obscure.
All going well, not only have you installed a fantastic IDE, but you even have an eye-catching little double-clickable launcher on your desktop. Sweet.
Java Application Server: If the only J2EE you're doing is servlets and JSPs, you can use the Tomcat server builtin to NetBeans. However, if you want to get into EJBs and Web Services, install this: it's very well integrated into NetBeans, it's free, and the next version, which will be supported by a future version of NetBeans, is open source.
Download, choosing "Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 2005Q2 UR2". The file will be something like sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux.bin.
Make sure it's executable (chmod +x sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux.bin if necessary), and run it. It will probably not be able to find your copy of java, so you can do either:
sudo ./sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux.bin -javahome /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun
or, as we did above:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/
sudo ./sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux.bin
An install wizard will start, and away you go. Note that you can install without sudo, in which case the app server will be installed by default in your home directory, rather than in /opt.
To make the app server available from NetBeans, fire up NetBeans, go to Tools/Server Manager and Add… your server. Almost all of the server-related tasks you'll want to do can be done from within the IDE now, including – of course – deploying and debugging applications.
Other optional extras:
- If desired, change the memory available to NetBeans: edit {install directory}/etc/netbeans.conf, and change the line starting with "netbeans_default_options" to have the desired setting for min/max heap size. For example, on my 2GB laptop, I specify:
"-J-Xms128m -J-Xmx256m" - If you're interested in development for mobile devices, Download and install the mobility pack: for this beta, the file to download is netbeans_mobility-5_0-beta-linux.bin. Just run it, and the next time you run the IDE, you'll be able to create mobile projects. Lukas is on the mobility team, and has interesting and relevant blog entries
- A plugin you'll definitely want to install is the profiler: profiler-m9-linux.bin. Again, just run this to install the latest in profiling capabilities .
- Finally, by default, NetBeans uses the Metal look and feel on Linux. If you're a keen Ubuntu Gnome person, you might try the GTK L&F, by adding "-J-DuseGtk=true" (without the quotes) to the "netbeans_default_options" line in {install directory}/etc/netbeans.conf. So this line on my system now looks like:
netbeans_default_options=”-J-Xms128m -J-Xmx256m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=96m -J-ea -J-DuseGtk=true”
Note that this is unsupported, but hey, so is running NetBeans on Ubuntu. One glitch I've found is that with the default "Human" theme in Ubuntu, menu items in Java using this L&F, when selected, disappear (or turn white on white, dunno which). My workaround, until I find out where the problem is, is to change the Ubuntu theme to Glider, which seems to work fine.
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Posted by Belutz on October 26, 2005 at 07:48 PM EST #
I've installed Java and Netbeans (including Mobility Pack) without problems. But when it came to the sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2 i got stuck. Here is the error msg i got.
P.S.: I'm a newbie in Linux (Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog) - in fact, i was using Win98 and migrated to Linux just to start learnig J2EE, PHP and using free math tools (pari, maxima...,latex). Any advice will be welcome! Thanks! For the great job with Netbeans too!
</BR>franzroot@ubuntuFranz:~$ ls -l -a *.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 franzroot franzroot 48836045 2005-10-25 21:02 jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 franzroot franzroot 49038055 2005-10-25 22:09 netbeans-4_1-linux.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 franzroot franzroot 20468814 2005-10-25 22:51 netbeans_mobility-4_1-linux.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 franzroot franzroot 57782699 2005-10-25 23:33 sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux-ml.bin
franzroot@ubuntuFranz:~$ chmod +x sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux-ml.bin
franzroot@ubuntuFranz:~$ ./sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux-ml.bin
./sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2-linux-ml.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Posted by Franz Maikaefer on October 29, 2005 at 06:10 PM EST #
I found the answer to my problem. I just had to install this package in my Ubuntu: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
I found in the Debian site that it was in this package that i could get the missing library. I installed it - no problems with conflicting packages - and followed the installation of sjsas_pe-8_1_02_2005Q2. Now everything ran right!!!
Posted by Franz Maikaefer on October 29, 2005 at 07:25 PM EST #
Posted by Jun Zhang on October 30, 2005 at 09:54 PM EST #
It seems though, that most people (and just those who use ubuntu linux) have a strange problem with libfontmanager.so and Java 1.5. The truth is that I could find any workarrounds except for removing jdk1.5 and going back to 1.4. This ofcourse makes sad many java developers including me. Have you got any clues about is going on?
Thanks in advance,
Kostas
Here's is a part of the error message (very huge so I don't include it all)
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb1173d03, pid=8872, tid=2884103088
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libfontmanager.so+0x2ed03]
#
--------------- T H R E A D ---------------
Current thread (0x0836a768): JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-1" [_thread_in_native, id=8896]
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [libfontmanager.so+0x2ed03]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x34ec6]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x3524e]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x3768a]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x35a92]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x35faa]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x225c6]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x24326]
C [libfontmanager.so+0x463c6] Java_sun_font_FileFont_getGlyphImage+0x120
j sun.font.FileFont.getGlyphImage(JI)J+0
j sun.font.FileFontStrike.getGlyphImagePtrs([I[JI)V+92
j sun.font.GlyphList.mapChars(Lsun/java2d/loops/FontInfo;I)Z+37
j sun.font.GlyphList.setFromString(Lsun/java2d/loops/FontInfo;Ljava/lang/String;FF)Z+47
j sun.java2d.pipe.GlyphListPipe.drawString(Lsun/java2d/SunGraphics2D;Ljava/lang/String;DD)V+148
j sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawString(Ljava/lang/String;II)V+25
j org.netbeans.beaninfo.editors.FontEditor.paintValue(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljava/awt/Rectangle;)V+137
j org.netbeans.modules.form.FormPropertyEditor.paintValue(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljava/awt/Rectangle;)V+15
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.RendererFactory$StringRenderer.delegatedPaint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+150
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.RendererFactory$StringRenderer.paint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+61
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.ButtonPanel.paint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+64
j javax.swing.CellRendererPane.paintComponent(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljava/awt/Component;Ljava/awt/Container;IIIIZ)V+124
j javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableUI.paintCell(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljava/awt/Rectangle;II)V+110
j javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableUI.paintCells(Ljava/awt/Graphics;IIII)V+133
j javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableUI.paint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljavax/swing/JComponent;)V+244
J javax.swing.plaf.ComponentUI.update(Ljava/awt/Graphics;Ljavax/swing/JComponent;)V
J javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V
v ~RuntimeStub::alignment_frame_return Runtime1 stub
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.BaseTable.paintComponent(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+2
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.SheetTable.paintComponent(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+18
J javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V
v ~RuntimeStub::alignment_frame_return Runtime1 stub
j org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.BaseTable.paint(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V+15
J javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(Ljava/awt/Graphics;)V
Posted by Kostas Papadopoulos on November 19, 2005 at 08:18 PM EST #
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Posted by Javier Tibau on December 29, 2005 at 11:05 PM EST #
Try uninstalling nb, then do an explicit export, followed by a reinstall. If that doesn't work, try installing the app server separately.
Let us know how you go.
Posted by David Coldrick on December 30, 2005 at 07:55 AM EST #
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./netbeans --cp:p {looks-2.0.3.jar} --laf {looks-2.0.3}
UI class not found, using default UI... I got some of the demo jar's up and running and they look ok but kinda remind me of Windows 3.11 a little :-( I've been programming java on windows for a small while and am impressed with the advances that have been made. It's a shame linux isn't as widely supported.
Posted by Dave on June 17, 2006 at 08:44 AM EST #
Posted by coldrick on June 17, 2006 at 11:07 AM EST #
$ ./netbeans --cp:p {looks-2.0.3.jar} --laf {com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.Plastic3DLookAndFeel}
UI class not found, using default UI...
I also spent all morning trying to install Mustang using this guide but didn't really even know what I was attempting to do. I think it perhaps time to throw in the towel! :-(
Posted by Dave on June 17, 2006 at 09:50 PM EST #
Posted by coldrick on June 19, 2006 at 08:52 AM EST #
Wonder if I'll ever get to the bottom of the Gtk problems...
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For anybody with the "white menus" bug in netbeans 6.1 in ubuntu, all you need to do is customize your theme and pick controls other than clearlooks. Changing to ClearlooksClassic fixed it for me.
I didn't have quite the same bug as mentioned at the bottom of the article. My menus could select properly, but the menu background was white with no outline around it.
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