Open University insists that all its student use Net Beans 4.1 instead of one of the more recent incarnations.

Net Beans 4.1 has multiple compatibility issues with “Windows 7″ and considering the course i am doing is programming it is annoying this wasn’t taken into account.

Anyway i switched on Net Beans today hoping to finish one of the questions on my assignment due next Thursday and ……. nothing. If i had serious trouble fixing this (it took me 2 hours ish) it could have effected the quality of my work.

Most of the problem fixing this came from making sure my enviroment had the university standard releases.