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Reposting Ian McDonagh's suggestions from nbusers: "One thing I'd really like to see in NetBeans is the ability to specify VM options (and maybe arguments too) in a multiline text field so that you can have each option on a separate line. NetBeans would then replace line breaks with spaces when running/debugging with that particular configuration to ensure that the VM handles the VM options as expected. For example, here are some VM options for a particular configuration in one of my projects: -Xmx256m -Ddatax.configuration.file=/home/data/clients/clientx/conf.xml -Ddatax.transform.scripts=/home/ian/.projectx/scripts -Dlog4j.configuration=/home/ian/development/java/projects/proper/projectx/test/etc/logging.properties -Dswing.aatext=true -DPlastic.defaultTheme=ExperienceBlue -DPlastic.menuFont="Arial-plain-11" -DPlastic.controlFont="Arial-plain-11" -Dswing.systemlaf=com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.PlasticXPLookAndFeel [Ignore wrapping and consider that the above would be a single line!] Quite long, but a realistic example. Managing the VM options also becomes cumbersome. With multiline VM options the above example would look like this: -Xmx256m -Ddatax.configuration.file=/home/data/clients/clientx/conf.xml -Ddatax.transform.scripts=/home/ian/.projectx/scripts -Dlog4j.configuration=/home/ian/development/java/projects/proper/projectx/test/etc/logging.properties -Dswing.aatext=true -DPlastic.defaultTheme=ExperienceBlue -DPlastic.menuFont="Arial-plain-11" -DPlastic.controlFont="Arial-plain-11" -Dswing.systemlaf=com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.PlasticXPLookAndFeel This becomes much easier to manage. Maybe even syntax highlighting would be nice :)" I second this - it seems to be reasonable idea.
Maybe even support to add properties file instead of all the Vm Args will help [I hope i am not asking for too much here... :) ] I would like to add one more thing... the Arguments [Parameters to the main method] should also come in multi-line.... Some times when i am trying to run some thing i do wonder why it is a text field and not a Text Area.... Not sure whether that is how it is done, but you get the idea. At least for starters, It Fix should be 1. MultiLine VM-Options + Maybe even syntax highlighting would be nice :) [ If Possible, but this should be the last stuff, Even support to load a Properties file instead of putting all the stuff in the box] 2. MultiLine Arguments [Parameters to the main method]