October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
21h 47m
English
book
NetBeans: The Definitive Guide
by Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr
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Chapter 1. Getting and Installing the IDE
Platforms and Requirements
NetBeans has a set of basic requirements that must be checked before attempting to run the IDE. This section details these requirements.
What Are the System Requirements to Run NetBeans?
Large and complex Java programs are demanding of memory and processor resources, and NetBeans is no exception. Furthermore, whereas some programs can anticipate approximately how much memory or CPU time they will need, NetBeans, which allows the user to design an arbitrarily complex project, can make no such a priori assessment.
The absolute minima for running NetBeans are much more modest than the practical minima. For instance you can run NetBeans on an AMD 5x86 at 166 MHz with 64 MB of RAM and a 640 X 480 screen resolution, but only if you have no real work to do in NetBeans or any other tasks to perform on the machine in question. We know because we have tried it.
That said, we list in Table 1-1 the practical minima for running NetBeans on several popular platforms. These are of necessity somewhat subjective. One rule of thumb is that serious developers should take our word on the minima, but you can get by with less machine than we recommend if you only plan to explore NetBeans lightly (preparatory to finding yourself a more satisfactory platform on which to do serious development).
Table 1-1. NetBeans minimum requirements on several popular platforms
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Platform |
Processor (MHz) |
Memory (MB) |
Disk (MB) |
Screen resolution ... |
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