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JBuilder 5's JDatastore won't launch from outside the IDE.
CVSHelper doesn't work on Linux and I can't find it anywhere.
Help | Java Reference does not take you to the correct API JavaDoc.
JBuilder 5 Bugs inherited from JBuilder 4
"Search | Find in Path" refuses to search for string "???" even if pattern matching is disabled. "Search | Find" does allow this to work.
Sometimes, import package.* statements seem to be ignored. JBuilder's compiler says the classes within such packages can not be found when they are referenced. If the import statements are changed from a package (wildcard) import to a set of class imports, the errors disappear.
JBuilder5 Memory Leak
While trying to restructure a datastore in the designer, I get the following error: "Java Virtual Machine Launcher: Could not find the main class. Program will exit!"

  After installing JBuilder 5 and installing the license for JDataStore I have the following problem. If I start the JDataStore the within JBuilder 5 it starts perfectly for the  Tools|JDataStore Server. However if I try and run it from Windows directly: Start|Programs|JBuilder 5|JDataStore Server it doesn't start.

As of 7/4/01, Borland knows of the problem and will make the missing binary available as soon as possible. Paolo Ciccone of Borland is following thread "JB5: anyone got CVSHelper working?" in group news://newsgroups.borland.com/borland/public/jbuilder/ide and will send the file to anyone who asks while a more convenient distribution method is being configured.
2001-Jul-04 9:09am gyles19@visi.com

To find the java API Javadoc from the javax API Javadoc,

  1) Open the 'Content' tab on the left side of the Help viewer.  
  2) Double click on 'Java 2 JDK 1.3 Documentation' to expand the topic.
  3) Click on 'Java 2 Standard Edition 1.3 API Documentation'.

This gets you to the same place JB4 took you.
2001-Jul-06 1:57pm gyles19@visi.com

 jbuilder5/doc/j2ee12_docs.jar

to

 jbuilder5/doc/zj2ee12_docs.jar

On Unix this changes the order the files are searched and seems to solve the problem. J2EE topics are still findable and the Help | Java Reference works as it did in JBuilder 4.

Unix users, be certain to use a lowercase 'z', not an uppercase 'Z'.

2001-Aug-07 3:37pm gyles19@visi.com

Should the "Include debug info" switch affect the serialVersionUID?

I'm using a non-English keyboard and JBuilder's license dialog won't accept the ? character.

I've just installed JB4 Foundation on Solaris 2.6. I've applied all of the Solaris patches required by JDK 1.3. When I try to launch jbuilder, I get the following error: /opt/jbuilder4/bin/jbuilder[47]: ./*.config: not found. What is wrong?

2001-Aug-07 3:49pm gyles19@visi.com

One workaround I use is to preface the search string with a space. IE, search for " ???" instead of "???". (I disabled hard tabs in source files, if you have tabs before the ???, this may or may not work, I haven't tried it.)
2001-Aug-29 10:43am gyles19@visi.com

Thus,

  import javax.swing.*;
  ...
  JFrame frame = new JFrame();

could be changed to one of the following forms:

  import javax.swing.JFrame;
  ...
  JFrame frame = new JFrame();

  import javax.swing.*;
  ...
  javax.swing.JFrame frame = new javax.swing.JFrame();

  1) Create a new data module and add it to current project.
  2) In designer for data module, I add a DataStore and a TableDataSet.
  3) Connect the DataStore to "example.jds" and set user name.
  4) TableDataSet, I set storeName to the Table name and store to DataStore name.
  5) Blue icon for restructure is activated, but it gives me the error if I try and use it. HELP!

Sergio Cardoso of Borland writes:

You found a bug in JBuilder.

As a workaround you could have DataSet.restructure() be called from your own code at run-time.

2002-Jun-10 2:51pm gyles19@visi.com