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1) The text fields for CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME are not editable. It's necessary to use the browse button. 2) If you have already entered something into a text field, and you open the browse button again, it starts the file chooser with no selection, from the users home directory. So if you want to change to a sister directory, you have to reenter the whole path from scratch. This is inconsistent with the rest of the IDE.
the dialog will be redesign
Fixed in trunk.
Verified in NetBeans dev build 200301310100.