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When I ran the installer, (sjas bundle jar) Everything seemed ok, but I didn't get any code folding at all. Later I found that I couldn't create any new projects, and finally I noticed the red button at the bottom right was indicating exeptions being thrown. All of this info relates to the Symptoms I saw... The problem was that, for some reason, my java/ext folder had a ._.DS_Store file in it. Which was passing the ignore files and was being parsed. (Which of course didn't work out well) My solution was to just delete that file. But I wanted to mention it in case anyone else gets similar symptoms.
It is not clear to me what can installer do with this behavior. Regarding exception reporting to user: Before exceptions was reported to user using dialog but it was too disruptive so it was changed to be less disruptive. Disadvantage is that user can miss that some problem happenned. Do you mean java/ext in JDK install dir? Or elsewhere? Probably parser was confused by it. Passing to mdr for evaluation.
I also get exceptions each time I start NetBeans 4.1 because of ._.DS_Store files. While I don't know a solution (yet), I think I do know where the files come from. I use StickyBrain (http://www.chronosnet.com) which installs OpenBase. I've noticed that every directory on my disk that contains a ._.DS_Store file was touched in some way by the OpenBase installer. This just started happening so I wonder if the OpenBase installer was changed or has issues w/Mac OS X 10.4. I will be filing a bug report with Chronos to see if the ._.DS_Store files can be deleted.
I think all of these issues are going to be closed, aren't they?
I am closing all reports in category Java/Unsupported as wontfix. These should be dead issues --- if the reported cases are against some live part of the NetBeans IDE please reopen and we can discuss to which category they belong.