Comments on: Defaulting To JDK 1.6 In NetBeans 6.5 On OSX

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:22:36 +0000

thanks! very handy

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:58:46 +0000

Finally! Thanks god for you buddy.. was a breeze after going through your blog.. good stuff.

By: David Ferrero

David Ferrero — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:43:19 +0000

My main interest was to debug an application running with JDK 1.6 from within NetBeans. But the Project–>Properties–>Java Sources Classpath : Java Platform never displayed JDK 1.6 as a choice even though I have 1.6 installed and even though OS X Java Preferences was set to default to JDK 1.6.

Obvious now, but I simply clicked Manage Java Platforms –> Add Platform and navigated to JDK 1.6.0/Home then added the src.jar and docs.jar and bingo – I am now able to debug my application spawned with Ant from JDK 1.6 from within NetBeans running with JDK 1.5.

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By: Bharat Manocha

Bharat Manocha — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:50:15 +0000

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By: Java 1.6 + NetBeans 6.5 + OSX @ Hugh Buchanan

Java 1.6 + NetBeans 6.5 + OSX @ Hugh Buchanan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:47:32 +0000

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By: dgp2

dgp2 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:46:13 +0000

Thanks Hugh for the great comment. A co-worker was trying to get glassfish to use 1.6, which also uses 1.5 by default, and what you said is exactly what is needed to get it working! Thanks again.

By: Hugh Buchanan

Hugh Buchanan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:31:16 +0000

Very helpful, but one additional step was necessary for my needs:

* Open the “asenv.conf” file. In my case, it can be found at: /Applications/NetBeans/glassfish-v2ur2/config/asenv.conf
* Set the “AS_JAVA” parameter to the Java 1.6 directory. My entry reads:
AS_JAVA=”/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home”

By: jasonsmart

jasonsmart — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:41:23 +0000

Thanks for this,
Being a OS X noob though, it took me a while to find out I needed to CRTL-Click on /Applications/Netbeans/Netbeans 6.5.app and choose “Show Package Contents” in order to get to the rest of the path Contents/Resources/Netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf

Also searching for netbeans.conf using Spotlight produced no results.