OK I have just taken my "Moderator friendly" pill and now I am very happy & over the moon.
I just spent all morning downloading Netbeans6 all (98 Meg of it) and I go to install and it says I need JDK 1.5.0_06 I must of had a older version (and that means another big down load) almost as big as the other file what a ............... [opps I feel the pill wearing off I must go]
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I just found out there is a smaller download called jGRASP program
jGRASP Home Page