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Saturday 19 April 2014
Wednesday 9 April 2014
Java JDK 8 and Netbeans 8 on the EEEPC
With the recent
release of the long awaited Java
8 Oracle also
released the latest version of its development environment Netbeans.
JDK8 and Netbeans have been made available as single updates or
together in a bundled
package. Since I wasn't fully satisfied from my recent upgrade
to Netbeans 7.4 I was more than willing to upgrade.
Installation
The bundled package is in
the form of the usual self-executable file Oracle provides to
distribute Netbeans installations, let me say the installation
process couldn't be easier.
I executed the
installation file from shell …
chmod +x jdk-8-nb-8-linux-i586.shsudo ./jdk-8-nb-8-linux-i586.sh
the installation wizard
started