Net beans 6.9 under 64 bit windows

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Net beans 6.9 under 64 bit windows

Will netbeans 6.9 (and whatever else I'll need for Java development - JVM, mysql, etc.) install under the 64 bit version of Windows 7 professional? The netbeans website says (well, implies) it's untested. Need to know if I need to reinstall 32 bit Windows 7 before a Java class starting tomorrow. Thanks for any help.

Update: went ahead under 64 bit and all is working fine.

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I'm running Netbeans 6.9, Java 6 (64 bit) and MySQL under Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Netbeans I'm using with Java, Ruby, Python and C/C++ (with Cygwin). All work fine.

cletus 2010-07-19 01:16:14

Netbeans is dead. Which is a bit of a shame since it was becoming a fairly decent IDE towards the end.

Oracle however, have always hated it and are an eclipse shop with strong links to the eclipse foundation and it doesn't, as far as I can tell, have a sufficiently robust community to handle the continuation of something as complex as an IDE.

I would be seriously surprised to see any significant development on it in the future, and unless your class has a specific requirement for Netbeans I'd seriously consider working in eclipse, since if you do any professional Java development that's what you'll almost certainly end up using(it's also amazingly powerful if a bit over specified sometimes).

Chris 2010-07-19 05:44:00

You answered his question with a completely irrelevant answer.

selbie 2010-07-19 05:48:18

It's not precisely irrelevant. The question is "does netbeans work on 64 bit windows 7", and the answer is yes, but maybe not next service pack, or the service pack after that. There's a reason it's marked as untested on the website, it's because Oracle isn't testing it, and they're not going to test it. I gathered from the "and whatever else I'll need for java development", that he doesn't have a specific set of programs he is required to use, so I suggested he use Eclipse(which is supported under Windows 7), as opposed to risking lack of support for Netbeans.

Chris 2010-07-19 06:17:23

Oracle recently announced that they will continue to develop NetBeans as the premier open source Java IDE. So NetBeans is not dead. There is no "rising lack of support for NetBeans". Your answer is FUD, based on nothing more than speculation.

Jesper 2010-07-19 08:24:09

See: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/htdocs/javatoolsfaq.html

Jesper 2010-07-19 08:30:00

Chris, StackOverflow tends to reward opinions not asked for with downvotes... Just so you know.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen 2010-07-19 09:26:34

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