With NetBeans 5.0 RC1 and RC2 with J2SE 5.0 1.5.0_04 or Java SE 6 b65 it is
impossible to open the options dialog. An exception is reported by the IDE. It
happens both with updating from 5.0 to RC1, RC1 to RC2 or with a clean install
(~/.netbeans removed as well) of RC2.

*********** Exception occurred ************ at 9:30 PM on Jan 19, 2006
java.lang.AbstractMethodError
	at org.netbeans.modules.options.OptionsPanel.<init>(OptionsPanel.java:331)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.options.OptionsWindowAction.actionPerformed(OptionsWindowAction.java:83)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1957)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2280)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:377)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:232)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:357)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1137)
	at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1178)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5957)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3280)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5722)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1960)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4365)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2018)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4195)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4222)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3886)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3816)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2004)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2300)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4195)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
[catch] at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)

Other information provided in the log file:
>Log Session: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:29:38 PM PST
>System Info: 
  Product Version         = NetBeans IDE 5.0 RC2 (Build 200601172200)
  Operating System        = Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86
  Java; VM; Vendor; Home  = 1.6.0-internal; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
1.6.0-rc-b65; Sun Microsystems Inc.; D:\Programmation\java\jre
  System Locale; Encoding = fr_FR (nb); Cp1252
  Home Dir.; Current Dir. = C:\Documents and Settings\gfx;
D:\Programmation\netbeans\bin
  Installation; User Dir. =
D:\Programmation\netbeans\nb5.0;D:\Programmation\netbeans\ide6;D:\Programmation\netbeans\enterprise2;D:\Programmation\netbeans\harness;D:\Programmation\netbeans\profiler1;D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6;
C:\Documents and Settings\gfx\.netbeans\5.0rc2
  Boot & Ext. Classpath   =
D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\resources.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\rt.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\jsse.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\jce.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\charsets.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\classes;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\j3daudio.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\j3dcore.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\j3dutils.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\jogl.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar;D:\Programmation\java\jre\lib\ext\vecmath.jar
  Application Classpath   =
D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6\lib\boot.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6\lib\org-openide-modules.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6\lib\org-openide-util.jar;D:\Programmation\java\lib\dt.jar;D:\Programmation\java\lib\tools.jar
  Startup Classpath       =
D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6\core\core.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\platform6\core\org-openide-filesystems.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\nb5.0\core\org-netbeans-upgrader.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\nb5.0\core\locale\core_nb.jar;D:\Programmation\netbeans\ide6\core\org-netbeans-modules-utilities-cli.jar