Running Netbeans on OS X

Just got my new MacBook Pro running 10.5.4 Leopard and installed Netbeans 6.1. First thing I tried was to change was to get Netbeans to use JDK1.6 64-bit version. The way to do this is to edit this file:-

/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.1.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/etc/netbeans.conf

and change the following line.

netbeans_jdkhome=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/

This is the About dialog before the change:-

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200804211638)
Java: 1.5.0_13; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_13-119
System: Mac OS X version 10.5.4 running on i386; MacRoman; en_US (nb)
Userdir: /Users/samktan/.netbeans/6.1

and this is the About dialog after the change:-

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200804211638)
Java: 1.6.0_05; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_05-b13-52
System: Mac OS X version 10.5.4 running on x86_64; MacRoman; en_US (nb)
Userdir: /Users/samktan/.netbeans/6.1

Posted at 12:50PM Jul 09, 2008 by samktan in Java  |  Comments[1]