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Bug 30522 - switching sdk's needs to be much much easier
Summary: switching sdk's needs to be much much easier
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: java
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unsupported (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows 3.1/NT
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Chris Ledantec
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Reported: 2003-01-30 16:29 UTC by jnash67
Modified: 2007-09-26 09:14 UTC (History)
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Description jnash67 2003-01-30 16:29:49 UTC 
In JBuilder it searches your system and finds all installed 
SDKs. You can subsequently search again or add a new one to 
the list.

There's an easy to option where you pick one of these from 
the list and you build, compile, debug etc. all using that 
SDK. This makes, for example, switching between 1.3 and 1.4 
a snap.

In Netbeans 3.4.1 (which is a huge improvement over 
previous versions), it's still a nightmare to accomplish 
this. You can compile in 1.4 but then the debugger craps 
out if you haven't configured that. But getting the 
debugger to work requires you to specify some jars and 
directories in the Boot Class Path. You then have to do 
this all over again if you want to go back to the other SDK.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2003-04-24 15:10:24 UTC 
I believe this is already planned for NetBeans 4.0's new Projects
infrastructure.
Comment 2 Vitezslav Stejskal 2003-04-25 13:20:50 UTC 
Yes, this is the new 'platforms support'.
Comment 3 Chris Ledantec 2003-07-07 10:28:10 UTC 
this is discussed in java spec:

http://projects.netbeans.org/uispecs/java/JavaProjectsUISpec.html
Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2007-09-20 11:59:25 UTC 
Reorganization of java component