Hello Paul,

I'm really not sure why the default is 1.5. Any idea if it's the same

for other platforms? I read someshwere that JDK 1.6 on OS X is buggy,

but I haven't confirmed this yet.

On other platforms the default JDK is 1.6. On MacOS X the JDK 6 is 64-bit

only (which means significantly larger memory consumption) and less stable

than JDK 1.5.

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No. The stability problems are specific to the Apple version of the 1.6 JDK. On Windows, Java 1.6 is more stable than Java 1.5.

Same issue here. I get the following on the logs:

6/15/09 8:32:05 PM [0x0-0x3e03e].com.jetbrains.intellij[454] [JavaAppLauncher Error] unable to find a version of Java to launch

6/15/09 8:32:05 PM com.apple.launchd[131] ([0x0-0x3e03e].com.jetbrains.intellij[454]) Exited with exit code: 1

6/15/09 8:32:33 PM [0x0-0x40040].com.jetbrains.intellij[457] [JavaAppLauncher Warning] Java application launched from PPC or bad stub. Relaunching in 32-bit, and tagging sub-processes to prefer 32-bit with $JAVA_ARCH=i386.

6/15/09 8:32:33 PM [0x0-0x40040].com.jetbrains.intellij[457] [JavaAppLauncher Warning] Java application launched from PPC or bad stub. Relaunching in 32-bit, and tagging sub-processes to prefer 32-bit with $JAVA_ARCH=i386.

6/15/09 8:32:34 PM [0x0-0x40040].com.jetbrains.intellij[457] [JavaAppLauncher Error] This process is [i386] and was re-exec'd from [i386], but for some reason we are trying re-exec to [].

I am using Core 2 Duo computers, with full 64 bit support. I used JDK6 with older versions of IDEA a few months ago.

I think that your comment pinpoints what he issue might be here. The IDEA launcher, for some reason, can't find the JDK6 on my computer. That is actually why it doesn't work. But that JDK is there and fully functional.

This could just be a bug in the lanucher.

I used the JDK6 for months until 1 week ago. After installing a new java update (http://support.apple.com/downloads/Java_for_Mac_OS_X_10_5_Update_4) the launcher isn't able to find the JDK6 anmore .. hmm, not sure where exactly the problem is. I'll try if I can remove that update, because I can't work on my projects with JDK5... :-(

Ok, that seems to work indeed. Thanks for your help. But what doesn`t work completly now is the JFormDesigner-PlugIn: When a form which contains beans from other modules in the project (all set to language level and jdk 6) JFormDesigner throws a UnsupportedClassVersionError exception for each occurence:

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

Ok, so it seems as JFormDesigner is the one having problems with this (as far as I remember I set the JDK for IntelliJ to 1.6 in the plist in order to to fix that).

also works for me, great! thanks!