Installing the IDE

Installing the IDE is simple and is basically composed of these steps:

1.	Make sure that you have a suitable JDK version installed on your system. For NetBeans IDE 5.0, the JDK version must be 1.4.2 or higher. If you do not have a suitable JDK version on your system, install that first or download a JDK/NetBeans IDE bundle.
2.	If you are running on the Solaris or Linux operating system, change the permissions on the installer file to make it executable (if necessary).
3.	Double-click the installer (or, on Solaris or Linux, launch the installer from the command line) and then step through the installer wizard.

That's pretty much all you have to do. The installer guides you through selecting a JDK on your system to run the IDE on and (optionally) creates desktop icons and Start menu items for the IDE.

See Chapter 10, Introduction to Java EE Development in NetBeans IDE, for information on setting up the Sun Java System Application Server.