jdk7

Do you remember of the problems between java and compiz that I talked about in a recent post?

I thought I solved them by using a recent version of the jdk (precisely 1.6.0_02 build 05) but I was wrong.

It seems that some weird behaviors are still present, for example when netbeans displays a JDialog.

I found another bug for this problem, which is still work in progress, precisely 6509038.

A german user commented on the bug that this issue is still present in jdk6 update 2 but not in jdk7. Yes you read it right.

jdk7 is still under development, but developers produce weekly snapshots at this site.

So I downloaded and installed the linux version (amd64 of course), configured netbeans to use this jdk and magically everything started working fine!

So if you don't fear of using a jdk under development and you are bored of weird issues on netbeans GUI, give jdk7 a try!

By the way, I'm using netbeans 6.0M10 and jdk7 which are both development versions and they are pretty stable! Kudos to both development teams!