I thought I had updated to that, but maybe I broke it before the 
update... Will install all the latest this time and will see what 
happens. But I had the same experience a couple of months ago when I 
tried it for the first time. I'd really like it to work, though. That 
would be great, and it would be consistent with my Linux box.

Chas.

David Pollak wrote:
> There was a defect in the plugin.  Cauyuon posted a fix to this list 
> last week.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I've tried twice to get NetBeans up and running on my MacBook Pro with 2
>     gigs of RAM. Both times I made the mistake of loading in the entire
>     liftweb library. After that -- and even after I closed the liftweb
>     master project -- NetBeans will lock up for long periods of time (e.g.
>     ten minutes or more) every few keystrokes to do some sort of indexing.
>     It is unbelievably frustrating. Closing and re-opening NetBeans,
>     rebooting the computer, etc. do nothing to help. As far as I can tell,
>     once that happens, NetBeans is toast.
> 
>     I plan to reinstall NetBeans (for the nth time) and *never* open Lift in
>     it, but that sort of defeats the purpose a bit since perusing the source
>     code is where it would be most useful. Maybe I need to set some variable
>     differently? I tried enlarging the heap space and things just got worse.
> 
>     I don't seem to have a plethora of other choices.
> 
>     Chas.
> 
>     David Pollak wrote:
>      > Charles,
>      >
>      > I use NetBeans and a whole lot of printlns.  In general, if
>     you've got a
>      > case class or Scala collections, the toString methods are pretty
>      > descriptive of what's going on.
>      >
>      > I have heard tell that it's possible to hook the NetBeans
>     debugger up to
>      > a running Jetty instance and do breakpoints in the Scala code and
>      > inspect variables.  I have not tried it myself.
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      >
>      > David
>      >
>      > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>      > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >     One of the hardest parts about learning Lift and Scala is not
>     really
>      >     know what objects look like. Things get pretty complicated
>     and it's
>      >     difficult to remember what's in what.
>      >
>      >     It would be very nice to be able to step through Lift and see
>     exactly
>      >     what is where in memory and how things change, etc. Normally,
>     I'd use an
>      >     IDE for this. I used to work in C#, and Visual Studio has
>     some very nice
>      >     tools. I can step through the program, look in any variable
>     to see
>      >     what's in it, etc.
>      >
>      >     In Ruby, I use TextMate. I'm not very good at it, so most of my
>      >     techniques are more rudimentary. But Rails has a nice method
>     called
>      >     debug. I can spit out what's in a variable by just adding:
>      >
>      >     <%= debug @my_variable %>
>      >
>      >     to a template. Lift, however, eschews code in templates. I
>     created a
>      >     Test snippet to do the same thing, but I'm having trouble
>     understanding
>      >     reflection in Scala. In Ruby, object.inspect or
>     object.to_yaml can give
>      >     me a pretty good picture of the object.
>      >
>      >     I've tried Lift in Eclipse, NetBeans, and JEdit and none of
>     them seem to
>      >     work very well. Out of memory errors are common, or I just
>     can't seem to
>      >     get it set up properly.
>      >
>      >     What tricks are others using to make it easier to see what's
>     going on in
>      >     Lift? Is there a way to step through a request and see
>     exactly what
>      >     happens and in what order? I would kill for that ability.
>      >
>      >     Chas.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
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