F9: Eclipse, Netbeans (6.5.1) & JDK 1.6u13

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> I have successfully downloaded and installed NetBeans 6.5.1,
> updated the plugins and was able to use it.  I also have installed
> F9's Eclipse and also installed Eclipse directly from the org's
> website. I have tested all three, using F9's default galternatives
> setup.  Great so far.
>
> Later, I downloaded and installed  JDK 1.6 update 13, manually
> added this JDK via galternatives and checked combinations of
> OpenJDK, GCJ, and JDK 1.6u13 to ensure that configuration
> worked properly, by:
>
> 1) Manually running java -version
> 2) Manually running javac -version
> 3) Starting Eclipse IDE (both versions) & compiling/running a java app
> 4) Starting NetBeans IDE and compiling/running a java app
>
> Everything seems to work fine, except:
> + NB fails to start only when the following galternatives is set:
>    javac: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0_13-jdk/bin/javac
Made corrections above to reflect actual setting.

Also, the following hangs NB (and need to kill NB processes to recover):
      javac: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj/bin/javac

It is interesting that NB's splash screen does come up for gcj 1.5.x,
chugs along very slowly (progress bar), then hangs, whereas for
JDK v1.6u13 does not show a splash screen and simply disappears
with no processes running. I suspect that gcj version (1.5.x) needs to
be used together as a "gcj set" and is not meant to be used with any
other combinations?
> When NB fails to start, I cannot locate the log-file as to why NB
> fails to start, so if anyone knows where to look, can you please
> let me know or if it is known why this fails, perhaps share your
> findings?