Indeed, a must have only if NetBeans is running on JDK 8. Ultimately we want to need nb-javac increasingly less for later JDKs and if you can do without it, that would be great. Doesn’t exist yet, indeed, for 12.0 anyway.
Gj On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 17:28, Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm currently working with NetBeans 12 beta 1 running on Windows 10 > Professional and OpenJDK 11.-0.6. First of all, hats off to everyone who > contributed to this. It's running fine for all of my projects > (maven-based web and command line projects). > > I do have the notification showing 'Install nb-javac'. I've seen several > threads in both the developers' list and users' list saying to not > install nb-javac. I've also seen messages saying that if you run into > problems with nb-javac, disabling it is not enough. It must be uninstalled. > > Is there a definitive list of the benefits that nb-javac brings, and > when you should not install nb-javac? > > Considering this is also a beta, is the corresponding nb-javac even > available? > > I'm running NetBeans 11.1 as well with nb-javac installed with no > issues. However, NetBeans 12 fixes several issues (JavaScript CDN, > Tomcat 7.0.103 launching) that are important in my environment. > > Thanks for any insight. > > .. . . just my two cents. > /mde/ > >
