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I am running Nevada 65 and when I try to build the IDE I get errors: [jhindexer] Running JavaHelp search database indexer... [repeat] java.lang.Exception: ConfigFile and/or IndexBuilder not set I found the following blog entry which seems to describe my problem: http://blogs.sun.com/nam/ I tried the workaround, referred to in the blog, of removing the packages SUNWjhdem, SUNWjjhdev, SUNWjhjdoc and SUNWjhdoc and I can now build the IDE.
Solaris insists on not just bundling an old version of JavaHelp - which on its own is OK - but on adding this to the $CLASSPATH for every user (or perhaps it is the JRE/lib/endorsed dir; don't have a copy installed to check). Either clear your $CLASSPATH (resp. endorsed dir), or remove those packages, or use a fresh JDK installation, etc. You are encouraged to send feedback to the Solaris packaging engineers requesting that they fix the JH package to not affect any Java environments by default; this is simply poor practice, as any app which specifically _wishes_ to use the OS' bundled copy of JavaHelp can easily do so explicitly, but unsuspecting apps should not get it without asking (especially when it can override their own copy!). In the future JSR 277 should obsolete this class of problem.