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I have a form that works fine in 6.8. It fails to load and locks up the IDE in 6.9 6.9.1 and nightly build 201009260000. I have imported settings from 6.8. I have also tried to create all new settings. In each case the IDE locks up. I have no idea how to debug this since the IDE locks. I am going to attach messages.log but I feel like there isn't much in there related. The form uses the App Framework, third party components, and project components. Any debugging help would be great.
The same behavior occurs when I just create an empty Java Desktop Application Framework project. The GUI builder just freezes on "Loading..."
What JDK do you use? If it is JDK 6 update 21 then this issue is a duplicate of issue 187697.
Using JDK 6 update 21. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 187697 ***