Tag Archives: OSX

JDK 8, OSX, and Netbeans

By Gene De Lisa | Published: May 6, 2013

Have you installed an Early Access Release of JDK 8? You may want to still use JDK 7 for some projects. I have a JavaFX 2 project that needs JDK 7 since there will be API changes in JDK8. I’ve previously covered using non Apple JDKs on Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, that doesn’t affect NetBeans default [...]

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JDK 7 on OSX

By Gene De Lisa | Published: March 19, 2013

You can download a dmg from Oracle’s download page. You might expect that you’d run the installer and you’d be ready to go. Not me. I had previous versions of Java installed. In my startup file (.bash_profile) I had set this: export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home/ With this set, java -version still reported 1.6. I set it to [...]

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Modify heap size for Eclipse on OSX

By Gene De Lisa | Published: August 7, 2011

I recently tried to load a sample IRS 1120 tax return in XML format (Example_TransmissionWithConsolidatedReturn.xml in their schema distribution) into the Eclipse XML editor. I shouldn’t need to tell you that the IRS schemas are quite complex. The “simple” return was over 12MB! After a lot of heaving, Eclipse just punted and complained about running [...]

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JDK 7 for OSX

By Gene De Lisa | Published: August 5, 2011

In the past, developers obtained the JDK from Apple. Apple has announced that they will no longer provide a JDK. They will support the Open JDK project instead. Here are he details of the Mac OS X Port Project within OpenJDK. You can check status of the port on the project’s Wiki There is also [...]

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