RE: Apache Netbeans 11.2 Availablility for ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 4B)?

[Lister Jonathan <jo...@vaisala.com>]

I have used (embedded ARM) Java on many different Raspberry Pi models, starting with the original right up to the latest, and have always been satisfied, sometimes delighted, even with JavaFX projects.
A couple of tips that you may have already realized:
a) all models of Pi allow you to configure a (volatile) ram disc - much faster than using the SD card and avoids too many read/write cycles which can eventually damage the SD card.
b) later models (4) of the Pi support 2 x USB3 with a dedicated controller, max (combined) 480Mb/s - so you can easily connect and use fast non-volatile USB3 storage devices. 
c) So far I haven't typically needed an IDE on the Pi but have instead used the NetBeans Remote Java SE feature that allows you to develop on a desktop and deploy / debug on the target device (Pi). Unfortunately NetBeans doesn't support Remote Java SE for maven based projects, only Ant projects - Maven support for Remote Java SE would be my top priority wish for future NB development ;-)

Good luck with the Pi,
Jonathan
-----Original Message-----
From: Emilian Bold <em...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 26 February, 2020 20:07
To: John G. Weed <no...@fastmail.com>
Cc: NetBeans Mailing <us...@netbeans.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Apache Netbeans 11.2 Availablility for ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 4B)?

NetBeans 11.2 does not come with the C/C++ plugins, but I guess you
can take those somewhere else.

That being said, although 95% of NetBeans is basically Java (so,
crossplatform) and the scripts only assume something Linux-like (so,
hardware arch independent) there is some native code in there. For
example, the Java profiler has some. JavaFX has some. I would not go so
far as to say NetBeans 100% works on ARM64. But... for your needs I
expect it would.

--emi


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:15 PM John G. Weed <no...@fastmail.com> wrote:
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> Many, many thanks to all for the inputs thus far. Sincerely appreciated.
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> My end-game, to put all cards on the table for a sanity check, is to be able to run the Netbeans 11.2 IDE with C/C++ plugin, on the Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB, running the 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS operating system and the xubuntu-desktop. Does anyone see any issues beyond the SUBJ Netbeans ARM64 compatibility concern I initially started with?
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 13:31, Hans Grimmelshausen HG wrote:
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> Hello John,
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> Since (the important parts of) Netbeans is written in Java, it runs well on the Raspberry Pi.
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> I haven't checked it explicitly on the Pi4, but I used to use Netbeans a lot on the Pi3. There I just copied the unpacked platform independent Netbeans zip archive from my x86 Linux machine to the ARM Pi, and all worked well.
> (Since the Pi has Debian based Raspbian Linux, even the Linux starter script for Netbeans works without change.)
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> On the 1 GB RAM Pi3 with its 1200 MHz ARM8-A53, Netbeans was already well usable, so it should fly on the 1-4 GB RAM Pi4 with its 1500 MHz ARM8-A72 ?
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> Greetings,
> Hans
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> Am 26.02.20 um 18:43 schrieb John G. Weed:
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> Does the download link Apache-NetBeans-11.2-bin-linux-x64.sh ( SHA-512, PGP ASC) provide support for the ARM64 chip set, as is used by the Raspberry Pi 4B? Has been my experience that x64 downloads in general do not support ARM64 specifically.
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