How's IDEA on Snow Leopard?

no problems for me so far, everything is a _bit_ snappier

1.5 seems to be missing, but I didn't look very close

java -version
java version "1.6.0_15"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03-219)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.1-b02-90, mixed mode)

Bas Leijdekkers wrote:

Has anybody tried IDEA on Snow Leopard yet? Any problems, any improvements? I have not installed Snow Leopard yet and I would not want to break anything. Is it true that JDK 1.5 no longer is included, but that there is a 32 bit JDK 1.6 now?

Bas

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I've been running both IDEA 8 and 9 EAP on Snow Leopard - they run
beautifully.

I have a recent 15" MacBook Pro.  I upgraded rather than a fresh
install, but looking at the timestamps of my
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions dir shows that both
1.5 and 1.6 have been touched.  1.3, on the other hand, was not - and
1.4 is not on my system (I'm not sure when I last used that...)

I can't tell if there is a 32-bit 1.6 Java VM available - I strongly
doubt it, as Snow Leopard is all about 64-bit OS improvements.  When I
pegged an Apple Java guy last year, all he would comment on is "the
future is 64 bits".  I seriously doubt that Apple will ever do another
32-bit Java VM (hence the recent vintage of my laptop - I needed Java 1.6).

Douglas Bullard

Bas Leijdekkers wrote:

Has anybody tried IDEA on Snow Leopard yet? Any problems, any improvements? I have not installed Snow Leopard yet and I would not want to break anything. Is it true that JDK 1.5 no longer is included, but that there is a 32 bit JDK 1.6 now?

Bas

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Original message URL: http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5244371#5244371

I've been running both IDEA 8 and 9 EAP on Snow Leopard - they run
beautifully.

I have a recent 15" MacBook Pro.  I upgraded rather than a fresh
install, but looking at the timestamps of my
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions dir shows that both
1.5 and 1.6 have been touched.  1.3, on the other hand, was not - and
1.4 is not on my system (I'm not sure when I last used that...)

I can't tell if there is a 32-bit 1.6 Java VM available - I strongly
doubt it, as Snow Leopard is all about 64-bit OS improvements.  When I
pegged an Apple Java guy last year, all he would comment on is "the
future is 64 bits".  I seriously doubt that Apple will ever do another
32-bit Java VM (hence the recent vintage of my laptop - I needed Java 1.6).

Douglas Bullard

Every time I got to the project settings to muck with dependencies it slows to a crawl and becomes unusable for me. Anyone else seeing this?

Rob

Hello Rob,

Every time I got to the project settings to muck with dependencies it
slows to a crawl and becomes unusable for me. Anyone else seeing this?

This is a known issue which isn't Snow Leopard specific. Hopefully will be
fixed soon.

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

There _is_ a 32-bit version of 1.6 on Snow Leopard.  SL runs on non-64-bit Macs and Apple wanted all of them on 1.6.  You can tailor which one is the default by running /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.

The other option is to muck with the Info.plist of IDEA.

Apple will tell you to not force one application onto a different JDK for the simple reason that it will force the load of two different JDKs.  If all of your apps are 1.6 64-bit or all 1.6 32-bit then Snow Leopard will only load 1.6 once and share it between apps.

BTW, you can find instructions for adding the 1.4 and 1.5 JDKs here - http://tedwi.se/u/b - that's not important for running IDEA but many Java devs need access to older JDKs for development and testing.

IDEA #9920 hang up when I tried to exit it.

I'm running snow Leopard on jdk 1.6, but Activity Monitor says that IDEA runs on 32 bit. Nevertheless, in Java Preferences, the 64 bit version of jdk 1.6 is at the top, i.e. it will be used before the 32 bit version.

Might i be the the actual container app is not compiled with 64 bit?

Attacing screen shots.