NetBeans needs liblogkit-java dependency for web application development

[Lou Ruppert]

Binary package hint: netbeans

Netbeans 6.7.1 in Karmic fails to complete the process of creating a Servlet file once the Web Applications plugins are installed. Looking at the IDE Log, one can see a ClassNotFoundException for org.apache.log.Hierarchy. Some Google searching shows that this is part of the liblogkit-java package. Here is the workaround that gets NetBeans to work in Karmic:

sudo apt-get install liblogkit-java
bash$ cd .netbeans/6.7/lib
bash$ ln -s /usr/share/java/logkit.jar .

The problem should be able to be reproduced with the following steps:

(Install netbeans package from Karmic repository obviously)
Open netbeans and open Tools and Modules.
Add the modules for web applications.
Restart Netbeans.
Open netbeans and create a new web project.
Once the project is created, create a new file and choose Servlet.
You will notice that when you complete Finish, the window doesn't close, no template is inserted in the new file, and there is a flashing error icon in the statusbar of the main Netbeans window.

Since Sun's bundle of Netbeans doesn't exhibit this problem, I'm assuming someone missed this dependency in testing. I don't know how to add the liblogkit-java jar to Netbeans' default system-wide classpath, hence my sloppy hack. But whoever is packaging Netbeans should probably include this dependency and make whatever arrangements are necessary to include it in the classpath.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 18 12:36:04 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: netbeans 6.7.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: netbeans
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Yulia Novozhilova (yulia-novozhilova)]

Thank you for catching!
Will be fixed in NetBeans 6.8 packages.

[Lou Ruppert (louferd)]

Latest 6.8 doesn't seem to include liblogkit-java. I'm trying to confirm it is fixed, but it seems to hang on the stage where I add module for web applications.

[Yulia Novozhilova (yulia-novozhilova)]

I couldn't reproduce the issue on 6.8 so didn't add the dependency. Wil try again.

[Yulia Novozhilova (yulia-novozhilova)]

I can't reproduce the issue on NetBeans 6.8. Please let me know if you can.