Here comes the Sun

This is a feature introduced in NetBeans 6.7. Set environment variables for specified life-cycle phases: Open project properties dialog, select action category. Select actions which depend on the variable, click add button to add such an environment variable. However, this method doesn’t work with Glassfish spawned the IDE. If you want use environment variables in [...]

If you use NetBeans IDE to build an application which reads environment variable, you will have to do these settings in your IDE. There is no GUI to set such variables in NetBeans while Eclipse provides you a “Run Configuration Dialog”. So just add the declaration in your netbeans.conf. It is highly recommended to copy [...]