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| = DevFaqGeneralWhatIsNetBeansExe |
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| === What is netbeans.exe, who compiles it and why is it there? |
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| netbeans.exe is the Windows launcher for NetBeans. Basically it assembles the class path string for starting up NetBeans, passes the command line arguments, etc., and launches Java with those arguments. |
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| The main reasons for the exe are: |
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| * Start NetBeans without a console window opening as well as the main window |
| * Windows shell quoting is inconsistent across versions of Windows |
| * On some versions of Windows, command line length is limited to a shorter length than is sometimes needed for all the command-line arguments that should be passed to java |
| * Provide a thing you can double click that has the correct icon |
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| It's nothing terribly exciting, it's just a small C++ app; the sources are in ide/launcher. |
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| Up to NetBeans 6.5 there were actually two executables - nb.exe and netbeans.exe. netbeans.exe will suppress the console window (so you won't see any logging on the command line); nb.exe will show the command line. Under the hood, netbeans.exe invokes nb.exe (so don't rename it). |
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| Starting with NetBeans 6.7 the following changes in the Windows launcher were introduced - link:WinNB67Launcher.asciidoc[WinNB67Launcher]. |
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| === Apache Migration Information |
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| This page was exported from link:http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqGeneralWhatIsNetBeansExe[http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqGeneralWhatIsNetBeansExe] , |
| that was last modified by NetBeans user Admin |
| on 2009-11-06T15:45:08Z. |
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| *NOTE:* This document was automatically converted to the AsciiDoc format on 2018-02-07, and needs to be reviewed. |
