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My Netbeans 4.0 beta 2 will no longer start after I got a failure adjusting the properties of a canvas contained in an AWT GridBagLayout. For the grid height, I picked the last element off the list, and got an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Since then, Netbeans has done nothing except give me exception boxes to close. I restarted the IDE, got the AIOOBE. and then the IDE looped giving me NullPointerExceptions. All I can think of to do is to manually delete the files to get out of it.
Created attachment 18457 [details] Message Log with Exception details
The problem is caused by AIOOBEs thrown by GridBagLayout. This is a known problem of JDK 5.0 beta 2. See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5055696 It should be fixed in the final release of JDK 5.0.