wiki:TechnoTips/NetBeans65Setup

NetBeans 6.5 Set Up Guide

This page will lead you through the process of installing  NetBeans IDE 6.5 into your computer. To make an installation successful, please, do the steps below thoroughly.

  1. Install NetBeans IDE 6.5.
  2. Start NetBeans IDE
    • FreeBSD/Ubuntu: $netbeans
    • Ubuntu: find the shortcut to NetBeans IDE at your Appilications menu and click on it.
  3. Go to Tools main menu item and select Plugins option. The Plugins window will pop up.
  4. Wait a little bit untill NetBeans initializes a plugin list and then select Available Plugins tab.
  5. In the left table select the following plugins:
    • Facelets Support
    • ICEFaces
  6. Click to the Install button to install plugins selected.
  7. Under NetBeans IDE Installer window click to Next button, select the check box to accept all license agreements' terms and click Install button to proceed. Wait for installer to finish and click Finish button.
  8. Register Tomcat 6.0 web server and PostgreSQL database server if you haven't done this already.
  9. From the main menu open Tools/Servers. Open Platform tab. In the VM Options field type in the following value:
    -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms32m -Xmx256m
    
  10. Remove all the plugins installed except of the following (if some of plugins are not in list, install them):
    • Ant
    • Database
    • Subversion
    • Editing Files
    • Facelets Support
    • ICEfaces Design-Time and Run-Time Libraries
    • ICEfaces Project Integration
    • IDE Platform
    • Java
    • Java Debugger
    • Java Persistence
    • JSF
    • Local History
    • NetBeans 6.5
    • Platform
    • Subversion
    • Task List
    • Tomcat
    • Web Applications
    • XML and Schema

Congratulations, IDE configuration process is done.