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Installation
General
- Is there a platform-independent NetBeans installer?
- I cannot download NetBeans. Is the NetBeans installer available on CD-ROM/DVD too?
- The JavaDoc popup in the editor remains empty, how do I install documentation?
- How to solve problems with exceptions in unpack200 during NetBeans installation?
- How do I perform a silent installation of NetBeans IDE?
- How to install the IDE of the same version several times ?
- How can I access installation log files?
- Is it possible to upgrade from one release to another?
- Do I need to install the JUnit plugin?
- How to make sample project templates unreachable in the installation?
MS Windows:
- When I download the NetBeans installer for Windows, the file lacks the "exe" extension and won't run. How can I run the installer?
- Vista: What if you face problems with installation of NetBeans IDE
- Vista: How to avoid problems when installing plugins?
- Vista: Why did the installer report success but did not install NetBeans?
- How do I install NetBeans and packs on 64-bit Windows?
- What to do when NetBeans fails on Win XP with "IllegalStateException: Out of bounds"?
- Does the NetBeans installer run on Windows 98SE / Windows ME?
- Can I use UNC paths in the NetBeans IDE?
- Output window always empty on my 64bit Win7 installation
Linux
- How do I run the graphical installer on Linux?
- How to install NetBeans on Ubuntu?
- Fedora: How to install the NetBeans software?
Mac OS
- How do I uninstall NetBeans in Mac OS X?
- How to specify Java Home on Mac OS X?
- What version of Java do I need for install IDE on Mac?
Bundles:
Network/Proxy:
Configuration
The NetBeans userdir (.netbeans)
- What is the .netbeans directory? What is the userdir and where can I find it?
- Can I move the .netbeans directory? Can I run NetBeans with an alternate userdir?
- How can I run multiple instances of the IDE simultaneously?
- What are the NetBeans startup parameters (a.k.a. command-line options)?
- What are the NetBeans command-line properties and options?
- How do I make my custom startup parameters permanent?
JDK/JRE settings
- Can I specify which Java Development Kit (JDK) NetBeans uses?
- Can I run NetBeans using only the Java Runtime (JRE)?
GlassFish server settings
Look and Feel
- The default font size used in menus, dialogs, views, etc. is too small. Can I make it bigger?
- Can I run NetBeans with a custom look and feel?
Arguments and Properties
- How can I have two or more main classes with different arguments in one project?
- How can I run/debug a program in NetBeans with certain Java system properties set to certain values?
- How can I run/debug a program in NetBeans with certain environment variables set to necessary values?
Templates
Mac OS
- How to improve graphics of drag&drop actions on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)?
- How to invoke a popup menu from the keyboard on Mac OS X?
Miscellaneous
- Can I associate a file type with NetBeans to open files of that type from the File Explorer?
- I have multiple monitors, why are context menus displayed on the wrong screen?
- Can I run an annotation processor from my project?
- How can I setup the NetBeans working environment to be completely portable? (e.g. on a USB drive)
- When scrolling large files under Linux the text becomes garbled, how to solve this?
- How can I incorporate Cobertura code coverage into my Ant script?
- Can I suppress the Master Password dialog?
Migration -- Moving to NetBeans
- Is there any information available which would help me decide whether I should switch to NetBeans?
- Can I import an Eclipse project into NetBeans?
- Can I import a JBuilder project into NetBeans?
- How can I import projects from other IDEs?
- Where can I find plug-ins for NetBeans?
- Is there a functionality similar to 'Generate Element Comment' (Alt+Shift+J) from Eclipse?
- Does NetBeans support Eclipse key mapping?
Performance
- My NetBeans IDE is slow. What can I do?
- How to make scanning/indexing/Go To Type faster?
- What are the memory requirements of Netbeans IDE?
- How do I set the JVM's heap size?
- I get an OutOfMemoryError while building a project having more than 6000 source files. What do I do?
- How to decrease startup time of NetBeans (Disabling Netbeans modules)?
- Can I eliminate pauses caused by garbage collection?
- Can I have my files on network drives?
- What can I do if Netbeans IDE runs out of file descriptors?
- Why is browsing for a file from within any Open Dialog so slow?
- Can I improve performance by changing the look and feel?
- How to create a CPU profiling snapshot if I want to report a performance problem?
- How to create a memory snapshot if I want to report OutOfMemoryError?
- NetBeans IDE is scanning/parsing/indexing for ages? Yes, it's a bug!
- My NetBeans IDE consumes a lot of memory, especially on 64 bits. What can I do?
- Visual Designer for J2ME applications is very slow. How can I change the slow routing? (Netbeans 6.9.1 only)
Project System (General)
- How can I package and distribute my executable Java application?
- Broken References: Why aren't my projects referring to each other using relative paths?
- Why are some project categories missing from the New Project dialog?
- How do I set or modify the language encoding for a project?
Ant
Do not forget the Apache Ant FAQ for questions not specific to NetBeans.
- Can I pass parameters into the Ant Script?
- My build script has lots of "private targets", can I prevent these from appearing in the Run Target menu?
- How Do I Define a Shortcut for an Ant Target?
- I am using an optional task such as FTP and it says it cannot create a task definition, and to check my classpath. What did I do wrong?
- My script works fine from the command line, after I set my CLASSPATH, but I cannot compile inside NetBeans. Why?
- ...but what if the classpath needed to compile with changes?
- ...but the script is not even mine, I just want to run it.
- My entity includes do not work. I just get a red "X" on the build script.
- Can I open a web browser on an HTML page generated by an Ant script?
- Does NetBeans improve the performance of Ant in any respect?
- Using projects with overridden junit macro definition from pre-7.2 releases in NetBeans 7.2 and newer?
Freeform Projects
- Is there any documentation on freeform projects, or samples?
- Can I have multiple source roots in a freeform project?
- Why can't I add a library to the classpath of my freeform project?
- How can I set which JDK to use for my freeform project?
- Are there some diagnostics I can use for configuration problems in my freeform project?
You may also be interested in trying AutomaticProjects.
Maven
- Can I use the Nexus repository manager with the IDE?
- Can I debug Maven builds (mojo code) from the IDE?
- How do I specify Maven proxy settings?
Navigation
- How Can I Quickly Navigate to Methods and Fields?
- I want to view/edit a file on my disk, but I don't want to set up a project for it. Is there a way to open random files?
- Can I view the package structure of my project as a tree?
- How do I quickly find the current file in Projects/Files/Favorites view?
- Why there is no "places bar" on right side of Open Project on Windows?
Editing
- I cannot type some characters or they appear in an unusual way.
- The code completion shortcut (Ctrl-Space) doesn't work or causes problems. Is there an alternative?
- The code completion shortcut produces a beep in files known to allow code completion and the code completion window disappears without warning while typing. What can I do?
- Scrolling in editor under Linux is slow. Is there any possibility to make it faster?
- Can I use back references when using regular expressions in the Find/Replace dialog?
- Where can I find a printable Keyboard Shortcut Card?
- Is it possible to split the editor and edit one file in two editor windows?
- What is hyperlinking and how can I use it?
- What are macros and how can I use them?
- Can I compare (diff) two files outside version control?
- Can I Create Custom Code Folds?
- How various line separators (EOLs) are handled?
- Removing CRLF from all the java files of a project (Converting to Unix format)
- I want to use UTF-8 and multibyte characters in Netbeans.
- How can I insert newline characters using the 'search & replace' dialog?
- How do I set or modify the language encoding for a project?
- How are file templates defined in NetBeans IDE 6? What is FreeMarker?
- Is there a list of all the predefined variables for templates, like ${user} and ${date}?
- How to globally change the user name that is used in file templates?
- How can I distribute my file templates to my users?
- I want to fine-tune font rendering settings.
Database Connectivity
- When I connect to my database, I can't see my tables, but if I use another tool, I can see them fine. Where are they?
- I built a database application using an embedded database (Java DB or HSQL), but when I run it, none of the tables or data I created are there!
- "What is .netbeans-derby dir, what does it store, and how can I change its location?
- How do I install the NetBeans sample databases or the Sakila sample database for MySQL?
- How do I start/stop the MySQL Server from NetBeans IDE?
- How do I secure my database password?
- How do I secure my MySQL password?
Compiling and Building Projects
- I get an OutOfMemoryError while building a project having more than 6000 source files. What do I do?
- After I make an incompatible change to one class, do I need to do a Clean and Build to see what it broke?
- How can I customize what goes into my project's JAR file?
- Can I exclude some classes or packages from compilation?
- How can I have two or more main classes with different arguments in one project?
- I get "Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute" when trying to run a JAR file
- I want to use my own keystore when signing a Java project for Java WebStart deployment
- How can I use the NetBeans Visual Library in my own project?
- How do I set or modify the language encoding for a project?
- Is there support for the Java Remote Method Invocation API (RMI)?
- How does Compile on Save (CoS) work?
Debugging
- While debugging, how can I back up and repeat a step without starting over?
- Can I step into the JDK code during debugging?
- How do I attach NetBeans debugger to a running application?
- How do I debug NetBeans?
- How do I debug an applet remotely?
- I'm running into problems when trying to debug. What can I do?
- Why can't I step into my source code when using the Ant debug target that I generated in the IDE for my free-form project?
- Printing debug messages
- How to use Method breakpoints?
- How to use Field breakpoints?
- Conditional Breakpoints
- Stack Operations
- Debugging in AWT hangs X-Windows
- Debugger log
GUI Editor (Matisse)
- Can I edit the blue, guarded blocks of code when developing a GUI?
- Components unexpectedly moved in container during design
- What is the .form file?
- Can I generate the .form file for an existing class?
- What is the Swing Layout Extensions library (org.jdesktop.layout) and do I need it?
- How can I set the GUI builder to generate javax.swing.GroupLayout instead of org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout?
- How to run/distribute my GUI application created in NetBeans?
- How to package the swing-layout-<version>.jar library into my application JAR?
- Can I distribute NetBeans layout libraries with my application?
- How can I design forms with GridBagLayout?
- How do I create a custom container bean?
- Can I create forms by extending other forms?
- How can I use a custom subclass of a Swing component? Do I need to install it to the palette?
- How can I define a baseline rules for my custom component?
- Can I define my own spacing scheme (default gaps between components)?
- I installed my component to the palette, but get some error message when trying to use it!
- How can I define an icon for my component added to the palette?
- Is there a way to restore the default palette?
- How do I create a radio button group?
- How do I set tab names in a JTabbedPane?
- Can I change the type of already created forms?
- How do I add several GUI components in one go?
- How do I create array of GUI controls?
- How can I dynamically create a variable number of GUI components?
- What are Generate Mnemonics Code options for and how do they work?
- How to use a Master/Detail panel as a component in other GUI forms?
- How do I use an IDENTITY column in a Java Desktop Application?
- Why does my Java Desktop Application fail to launch?
Java EE Development
- How do I change the web browser for JSP and web module execution?
- Are the Enterprise Resource Wizards (e.g., Call EJB), available from JSPs as well as servlets?
- Is there support for using a tag library in a web application?
Web Services Development
- How to customize generated schema for WSDL file
- How to use WSDL Customizer in NetBeans
- How to enable parsing of WSDL with an external schema?
- JAX-WS Web services on JBoss in NetBeans IDE
- Can I define a WSDL SOAP binding as RPC style binding?
- Can I access RPC/encopded web service by using JAX-WS client?
- How to change Web Service location at runtime
- How to set up endorsed dir for Tomcat
See also
Version Control Systems
- Which version control systems do you support?
- How to add the VCS generic profiles (VSS, ClearCase, TeamWare support) to NetBeans 6.0?
- How to switch off Netbeans version control for a particular folder?
CVS
- How can I set up and access local CVS repositories?
- How do I configure CVS connection settings?
- How to set up CVS public key SSH authentication?
- How can I connect through firewall?
- Can I version my private project settings?
- How can I view differences between two specific revisions?
- Why won't the IDE allow me to commit changes into trunk/branch?
- How can I change customization of status labels?
- How can I make other protocols provided by CVSNT work?
- How to import binary files correctly?
Subversion
- What are the main features of NetBeans Subversion Support?
- What do I need for NetBeans Subversion Support?
- What versions of working copies are supported?
- Why does NetBeans complain about missing Subversion client?
- How do I set up SSH with Subversion?
- How to connect to an svn repository with user-certificated authentication?
- How do I display Subversion branch/tag annotations?
- How to customize the Subversion branch/tag annotations?
- How to customize the status coloring for Subversion?
- How to exclude new files by default from a commit?
- How can a file be added as binary?
- How can I avoid checking out the top folder from the repository? Can I use another name for it?
- Why does it take such a long time when opening a versioned folder?
- Character encoding problem with Netbeans Subversion on Mac
- How to use the Subversion support with JavaHL?
- How to force the Subversion support to use the command line client?
- What versions of Subversion commandline client are supported?
- Is Subversion client in version 1.7 supported?
- What Subversion clients are supported in the IDE?
ClearCase
- How do I get and install the Netbeans ClearCase support?
- Do you support any Unified Change Management features?
- Do you support CC Web configurations, CC Remote client or a similar approach?
- How do I find all existing checkouts in my project?
- How do I switch between different views?
- I always get this annoying yet harmless error messages?
- Browse History, Browse Revision Tree or Show Properties don't work?
Mercurial
- What do I need for NetBeans Mercurial Support?
- What are the recommended Mercurial extensions?
- How do I set up SSH with Mercurial?
- How can I rename or move a project without losing Mercurial metadata?
Issue Tracking Integration
- What Issue Tracking systems are supported by NetBeans?
- Does the NetBeans Issue Tracking work with any repository, or only with repositories from java.net or kenai.com?
- Does the Issue Tracking support in NetBeans also work with netbeans.org Bugzilla?
- How do I edit or remove an Issue Tracking repository from NetBeans?
- How do I setup an Issue Tracking repository in NetBeans?
Bugzilla
JIRA
Profiler
- Do you have any profiling tips?
- Which JDK releases can be used with the Profiler?
- Will the Profiler run on Mac?
- What exactly does the Profiler Calibration mean?
- How do I run the calibration process on a remote machine?
- Can I save and later retrieve the results of profiling?
- How can I compare memory snapshots?
- How do I find who prevents certain objects in memory from being garbage collected?
- How do I read the data on garbage collection?
- I can't attach the Profiler to a running application. What did I do wrong?
- How do I attach Profiler to a remote server?
- Can I use dynamic attach for standard JDK?
- When I attach to a running application, and want to do "Analyze Performance - Entire Application", why does it say it can give me profiling results only for threads started after I attached the Profiler to the application?
- When selecting part of an application to profile, is it possible to set the filter at the package level (rather than at the method level)?
- Why is the total memory not equal to the sum of live bytes?
- How does profiling via root methods work?
- How is object liveness tracked?
- How is object allocation data collected?
- How do I use different timers when profiling an application?
- How do I select an instrumentation scheme?
- How can I profile all threads in a multi-threaded application?
- How do I instrument/not instrument special Java methods?
- Which method of tracking methods should I use, exact or sampled?
Java ME/Mobility
- Where should I report issues about Mobility support?
- Where can I find out more about Java ME development using Mobility support?
Installation, SDKs, Emulators
- How do I install the Java ME SDK 3.0 in Mac OS X?
- Why does the Mobility support not detect NetBeans 5 install folder?
- Where can I find emulators and SDK's for Java ME development?
- How can I develop MIDP 1.0-compliant application when my emulator only supports MIDP 2.0?
- How can I add Nokia SDKs if NetBeans Platform Manager does not recognize these SDKs as valid ones?
- How do I install the Sun Java Toolkit for CDC in NetBeans 6.5 and earlier releases?
General Development
- How do I specify a MIDlet icon?
- Why does Execute Through OTA not show previously deployed MIDlets?
- Why can I not remove an ability from 'Add Ability' dialog?
- When my application tries to access the network I get a message from emulator where it asks for permission to use air time. None of the buttons work though. What is going on?
- How to increase debugger timeout?
- I download it sample Netbeans Java ME application from Internet but I can't run it because of compilation errors. What do I do wrong?
Libraries and Build Scripts
- How should I structure my project in NetBeans if I am using both Java ME and Java SE elements?
- How can I create two libraries from the same source code, one to be used in Java ME projects and the other one in Java SE projects?
- How do I specify resource files (images, sounds) to be added to the JAR build?
- Can I change my MIDlet project's dist destination, so it puts the JAR and JAD straight onto a server rather than in my local dist directory?
- Does the IDE generate the necessary Ant targets to launch my Java ME app in the various configured emulators?
- How can I change behavior of Build Targets in Ant Build Script?
Visual Mobile Designer
- How to install the Visual Mobile Designer?
- Why can't I open existing source files in the Visual Designer?
- While using Visual Mobile Designer, can I test the developed form without creating build and starting my application on WTK emulator?
- When I develop a form, new element is added to inspector view, but I don't see it edited on screen (in visual form). Changes are only visible after I create build and start emulator. Is this proper behavior?
- How to change the colors of TableItem when it appears as black on device?
- How Should I use SVG Menu in My Application?
- Is it possible to split Visual Midlet/Visual Design class into more that one file?
- How to create Custom Component for Visual Mobile Designer?
- Where I can find more information about Visual Mobile Designer architecture?
- Where I can find more information about VMD custom components like SMS Composer, File Browser, Wait Screen, PIM Browser, Login Screen?
- How can I edit code in guarded blocks generated with Visual Mobile Designer?
Device-Dependent
- How can I create block active only for NokiaAPI AND NokiaSound abilities (both active together)?
- How can I use the Sony Ericsson SDK to remotely manage Java ME resources from within NetBeans?
- When running my Java ME application as .prc on my Palm Tungsten C, I get the message "Alert does not accept commands - java.lang.IllegalStateException." What is going on?
- What do I need to run SVG based application on my MIDP mobile device?
Web Services and Connectivity
- Why Midlet clients for Webservices / Web applications are not generated automatically?
- How Can I make Web Services (JSR 172) work in my CDC project?
- How Can I use Web Services (JSR 172) in my Java ME MIDP project?
- How can I connect my Java ME MIDP application to the SQL database?
Obfuscation
- What version of Proguard obfuscator is used by the IDE?
- How do I add BouncyCastle crypto libraries to my J2ME project?
Supported Operating Systems
- Does the NetBeans Mobility support Solaris and Mac OS X?
- How do I develop mobile applications with NetBeans using Mac OS X?
- How do I make the Mobility support work on Ubuntu 7.10?
NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack
NetBeans C/C++ Plugin FAQ and HOW-TOs
New Features
General
- C/C++ Application Learning Trail
- What is the NetBeans C/C++ Plugin?
- What's the distinction between the NetBeans IDE with the C/C++ Plugin and the Oracle Solaris Studio (aka Sun Studio) IDE?
- On which platforms can I run the NetBeans C/C++ Plugin?
- Which compilers does the NetBeans C/C++ Plugin support?
- Where can I find a good tutorial to get started using Java Native Interface (JNI) other than "Beginning JNI with NetBeans C/C++ Pack 5.5, Part I"
- How can I configure the NetBeans IDE for C and Fortran development using MinGW?
- How can I configure the NetBeans IDE to work correctly with localized tools?
- How can I get Qt4 working together with NetBeans IDE?
Projects, Building and Running your code
- How do I go about moving my existing C++ project from Eclipse or GNU and bringing it into the NetBeans project system?
- I can't successfully run the g++ compiler to configure the built-in source file parser. What can I do?
- Is it possible to use MinGW in C/C++ Development?
- I've changed compiler collections in Tools > Options but my project is still using my old compiler collection. Why didn't it use the new one?
- How do I add a new set of compilers to the list of compiler collections?
- Is there a GNU make on the Solaris OS?
- How can I change the default extension for C/C++ source or header files?
- Build fails with error in file something.o.d. What can I do?
- How can I create and add resource files into projects?
- How can I configure the NetBeans IDE to work correctly with localized tools?
Debugging
- Is the NetBeans C/C++ plugin tightly integrated with a C/C++ debugger?
- The debugger doesn't work. What's the first thing I should do?
- What version of gdb should I use?
- When I try debugging on a Mac OS X machine the debugger fails. What's going on?
- Breakpoints in some of my C++ constructors are ignored. Is this a known problem?
- How can I enter external parameter (main args) like it's possible in mode "Run"?
- How to debug embedded applications?
Code assistance
- Does the NetBeans C/C++ Plugin support refactoring?
- Does a hyperlink go to the function definition or to its declaration?
- For a declaration that is declared via macros, how can I see the "real" declaration name?
- How can I find all definitions of my namespace?
- How can I create a project from existing code and set up code assistance?
- How can I configure code assistance when I cannot build the project?
- My project has a question mark in the Projects window - what does it mean? And what should I do?
- My #include directive is underlined red - what should I do?
- How can I edit user include paths and macros?
- How can I detect that the project has the wrong configuration?
- Is it possible to configure an already existing project from existing code?
- Is it possible to have different platform/device dependent configurations in one project?
Remote Development (Introduced in NetBeans IDE 6.5)
- When I try to add a remote development host I get a SocketException saying "Reply from SOCKS server has bad version". What can I do about it?
- When I try to add a remote development host no tool collections are found on the remote server although I have compilers installed there. What can I do about it?
- When I try to add a remote development host it is stuck on initializing screen. What can I do about it?
Run Monitor profiling tools (Introduced in NetBeans IDE 6.7)
- My program runs fine outside the IDE and in Debug mode in NetBeans IDE, but fails in Run mode. What can I do?
- My program runs slowly in the IDE, but faster outside the IDE and when debugging in the IDE. Why, and how can I fix it?
- Why does the IDE says it is "looking for thread lock problems" but does not show anything?
- What additional privileges are needed for the Memory tool?
- How can I use the Profiling tools on Linux?
- On Solaris I have Dtrace and Sun Studio. Which Data Provider should I choose?
Qt Support (Introduced in NetBeans IDE 6.7)
- I want to use Qt feature FOO but there is no corresponding checkbox in project properties. What can I do?
- How can I tell NetBeans to use Qt installed in /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5?
Unit Tests Support (Introduced in NetBeans IDE 6.9)
PHP
- Where can I find detailed documentation for NetBeans IDE for PHP?
- Where do I download PHP support?
- Which file types are supported by the NetBeans IDE for PHP?
- How do I start PHP development?
- How do I use the MySQL database server with the NetBeans IDE for PHP?
- How do I set up a PHP project?
- Can I set up a PHP project with already existing sources?
- How do I configure XDebug?
- How do I debug PHP projects?
- What are all-in-one packages?
- Which encoding do I use for naming PHP source files and folders?
UML
- Can I use NetBeans UML Modelling on Mac OS too?
- How does reverse enginer handle data members and parameters that are Java 5 collections?
- I get a "Cannot create image:Java Heap space" error when I try to save my Class Diagram. Why?
- I get "Increase Heap Space Error" while Reverse Engineering large Java project to UML. Why?
- How can several developers collaborate with one UML project?
- UML Printing Issues with some JDK 1.6.0 before update 2
- Can I export/import uml project to/from xmi format?
- Problems with 6.1 projects and diagrams in 6.5+ releases
Bug Reporting
- I have read the FAQ but it seems to be a new bug. Where do I report it?
- Why do I need to register to submit a bug?
- Why is the bug reporting process so difficult?
- Where do I find the NetBeans log file to attach to the error report?
- How to generate a Thread Dump to attach to the error report?
- How to activate more detailed logging for the error report?
- How to create a CPU profiling snapshot if I want to report a performance problem?
- How to create a memory snapshot if I want to report OutOfMemoryError?
- NetBeans IDE is scanning/parsing/indexing for ages? Yes, it's a bug!
- How do I report a JVM crash on Mac OS X?
NetBeans Community
Joining the Community
- How and why to register for a NetBeans community account?
- I registered but never got my confirmation email / I forgot my Password!
- How can I contribute to the NetBeans project?
- How do I change email Id, once registered at netbeans.org
Contributing, This FAQ
- Can I add a new or update an existing entry in this FAQ?
- I found some nice tricks, how can I share them?
- I can't find answer to my question in this FAQ. Who can I ask for help?
Community, Chat
- Where can I find a public NetBeans user chat?
- Why can't I connect to the Developer Collaboration Chat server share.java.net?
- How do I set up a private Developer Collaboration Chat server? (NB 6.5)
- How can I collaborate on a project and send instant messages in NetBeans 6.7?
- Where can I meet users who speak Japanese, Chinese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian... ?
Blogs
Mailing Lists
- Why should I join a mailing list?
- How do I subscribe?
- There are so many lists - which do I subscribe to?
- How do I unsubscribe?
- I can't unsubscribe!
- How do I find out which of my email addresses is subscribed?
- How do I update my subscription address?
- How do I send a message to the list?
- Is there a NetBeans Forum? Can I post messages via the web?
- Are there NetBeans newsgroups? Can I access the lists via Usenet/NNTP?
- My message didn't show up on the list!
- My messages sometimes take hours or days to show up on the list!
- I use GMail and I don't get a copy of my own posts, why ?
- I'd like to help out - can I help moderate a list?
- I posted my question but nobody answered!
Update Center (Plugin Manager)
- How can I install a new module from the Update Center?
- How do I use the Update Center through a (company etc) firewall?
- How can I download a module from the Update Center as an NBM file?
- How can I import a set of plugins from the previous version of the IDE?
- Why are there plugins "missing" in the final release? Where can I get plugins still in development?
- Can I publish my own module on the NetBeans Update Center?
- How do I create own update center?
- How can I add new Update Center in the IDE?
- What is the difference between individual NetBeans Update Centers?
- How do I verify that a module was staged correctly on the NetBeans Update Center?
- How to customize the Plugin Manager?
Plugin Portal
- Where can I search for NetBeans Plugins, or publish my own?
- How do I install a plugin module into NetBeans?
- How do I log on to the Portal?
- How do I add my own Plugins?
- How do I sign my plugin for the Plugin Portal?
- How do I update or delete my own Plugins?
- Which are the best and most popular Plugins? (Rating)
- Why can't I rate this plugin?
- What categories are there? And what is a tag cloud?
- Why is my module owned by "nbadmin"?
- What if I have a problem using the Plugin Portal or would like to suggest a change?
- Should I publish my plugin on Plugin Portal or Update Center?
- How does publishing on Plugin Portal Update Center work?
- How to get my plugin on Plugin Portal Update Center?
- How to check plugin Verification status?
- How to cancel verification request of my plugin?
- How do I verify a plugin?
License and Legal Questions
- Do I need to license NetBeans software to use it in my company or university?
- Can I use NetBeans to create a commercial application?
- Can my contribution to NetBeans.org be included in a commercial product?
- Can I modify NetBeans source code files and distribute the IDE for free or sell it?
- Why is NetBeans dual licensed both under CDDL and GPLv2?
- What is the Classpath exception?
- Why is the Classpath exception necessary?
- Does adding GPL v2 affect current distributions?
- Do I need anything besides NetBeans source code to be able to compile and run the NetBeans IDE?
- Can I sell the IDE with my custom modules added without disclosing my source code?
- Can I distribute the NetBeans IDE on a CD-ROM that I sell?
- Can I redistribute the Java Software Development Kit (SDK), any version, royalty-free with the NetBeans IDE?
- Is NetBeans configured only for the Oracle's SDK, or are there any other SDKs or compilers that NetBeans can work with?
- Can I use NetBeans images ( like play.png, pause.gif or refresh.png ) in my programs ?
- There are a lot of tutorials that can be found on NetBeans.org (under "Docs and support"). Can we use those materials in our Java course?
- What does 'entitlement' mean??
Contributor Agreement
- What is the Contributor Agreement ("CA")?
- Do I have to fill out a CA?
- How do I file a completed CA?
- Can I file my completed CA by e-mail?
- I've already signed a JCA; do I still have to sign the CA?
- I've already signed a CA for another Oracle project, do I need to sign another one for NetBeans?
- I've already signed a recent version of the CA, do I need to sign the newest version?
- Do I have to file a CA for every contribution?
- Once I have a CA on file, can I change my mind and cancel?
- I tried to make a contribution to netbeans.org and signed a CA, but my contribution was not accepted. What is the result?
- Why does NetBeans request a CA?
- I have a CA or JCA on file and I have made a code contribution to netbeans.org. Can I get listed on the copyright notice?
- If my company wants me to contribute changes, who should sign the CA, me or my company?
- Can my company sign a blanket JCA for all its employees?
Docs, Support, Training
- Where is the official NetBeans documentation?
- Are official NetBeans IDE updates available for free?
- Mac OS FAQ - helpful for most Mac users.
- Would NetBeans consider a commercial support agreement with us?
- What are the official NetBeans support options for businesses and individuals?
- Are there official NetBeans training resources?
- My school/JUG wants to teach Java and NetBeans, do you offer an academic program?
- Is there an official NetBeans Certificate?
Other Languages
- Where can I meet users who speak Japanese, Chinese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, ... ?
- Can I see Japanese translations of these User FAQ?
- Does NetBeans support bi-directional text?
- How can I use UTF-8 encoding in Java source files and JavaScript files in my project?
- In a localized NetBeans, how do I change the Generated JavaDoc to English?
- How can I run NetBeans in a non-English locale but see messages in English ?
- How do I modify the language encoding for a project?
- Why are Asian characters garbled (shown as rectangles) when running NetBeans on some Linux systems ?
- Why does the localized Chinese javadoc not appear or be used ?
- Why does the javadoc search not find results from the localized Chinese javadoc ?
- How can Localizers determine which UI Strings are in which Bundle.properties file?
Hudson
For older versions of NetBeans see the FaqArchive
