Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "SL@maxis" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: NetBeans and bundles: what are needed ? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:10:56 +0800 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: news.albasani.net K1ULx8qN4hj0pXfulFOpSRVIVftFrDt2+db8vUXZXxO08YgAnxbXxTRxdfKa/0HIHjuxrcfpOF4yoIcoF6/l69Cg0sRAzFLk4wyeTqxecMigV92eJ8tcIgzc9390iPsH NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="gJ1lJd1oUJCLkOgxL19mtLUnFBsUFCqRuBLvMn9lxIK1b46G7Qnr4Rh4zm5EQb+GA6EeOqurQOjV87IniInUrcjZESXB6sekt/AJZG6OT4HVHrOY6kKWw+PovaecS8uv"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hjUXpPlXNmOE/MqP86qx0Z67tGg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20375 On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:50:56 +0800, Lew wrote: > > So what you need is Java 7. > > And to read the documentation. > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/version-6-141920.html > > Substitute "7" for "6" in the content (not the URL) to get current. > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-naming-418744.html > > From these sources we see that "JDK" means "Java=E2=84=A2 SE Developme= nt Kit" > ("Due to significant popularity within the Java developer community" > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/namechange-140185.html) > and "JRE" means "Java=E2=84=A2 SE Runtime Environment". There is also = "Oracle > Java SE Advanced and Oracle Java SE Suite", > http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/standard-edition/advanced-s= uite/overview/index.html, > not to mention versions from IBM and others. > > They are all Java SE, be they JRE, JDK, Advanced or whatnot. > > Since NetBeans is a Java program, it requires Java to run. Since you a= re > developing code, it needs the development kit for Java, in addition to= > the runtime. > > In your case, Java 7. > Whew, the documentation is overwhelming, just like when I started with = "windoze". Thanks, that should save me some head-banging. -- = Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/