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IDK if it's reproducible, but on my system the Netbeans uninstall does not complete if java has been uninstalled.
Of course, you can`t uninstall NetBeans with no Java on the system. It is the core system requirement (both for installation and uninstallation). http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/install.html#requiredsoftware
That's not really an "of course" statement. Java's a core requirement for running netbeans, but making it a core requirement of the netbeans uninstaller could be problematic for users who have subsequently uninstalled java, since Windows does absolutely nothing to remove netbeans [when running the netbeans uninstaller] once Java has been removed. I think that making the installer/uninstaller java-dependent is a serious flaw.
Unfortunately it is. Installer is actually the usual Java application wrapped by exe (win) or sh (unix). The possible solution is have the "bundled JRE" - that will be (and is) used in NetBeans + JDK bundle. We would have the same bundle for NetBeans 6.0 in some time. Due to the additional 13-24Mb (packed JRE size on different platforms) it is not included in standard NetBeans distributions that are available at bits.netbeans.org but can be added easily in the future. Adding Trung, our architech, to the CC list. If you don`t have Java you can do the manual cleaning: http://nbi.netbeans.org/docs/faq.html#cleaning
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