Netbeans offers 64-bit support. This is absolutely essential to my project, which must use more than 2 gigs of RAM.
The major advantage of Netbeans is that it offers a profiler. However, when used in 64-bit mode, this profiler often goes into an infinite loop and show the message: "connecting to the target vm" for ten minutes until the programmer gets bored and cancels the command.
Certain other sites have suggested that this bug does not occur in 32-bit mode.
Specifically:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5450320
seems to suggest that if I could live with the 32-bit version, I could profile without this bug.
However, 32 bits are not going to be enough for me unless I can figure out how to get a virtual machine with about 3 gigs of working RAM in a 32-bit system.
The obvious immediate workaround is to try Eclipse and see if it can profile 64-bit projects. however, if this Netbeans bug gets fixed I could continue to use Netbeans.
Is there a better workaround than moving to Eclipse?
Thanks.