How can I get the stdout and stderr from NetBeans 7.4 on Linux? If I run NetBeans from the command-line (Ubuntu 14), NetBeans appears to redirect everything to /dev/null, according to what I'm seeing in the bin/netbeans script. I would like to see stdout and stderr sent to my terminal. I've even tried modifying the bin/netbeans script to pipe the output to files, but it's not giving me all of the stdout and stderr (I'm not a bash scripting expert, though). The meager help available with "netbeans --help" doesn't provide any clues to stdout/stderr, and I've failed to turn anything up on Google.
I need stdout and stderr because the NetBeans IDE itself is throwing an exception when switching to the "Design" view of a Swing component, and it's not giving me the full stacktrace I need to track down the problem (there's some static init code in one class that is likely causing the issue, but it works great at runtime and I see no issues with the code). If I run the netbeans.exe in Windows, I get all of the stderr and stdout in my cmd.exe window just fine, but I need to do this in Ubuntu 14. Thanks.
NetBeans uses Java logging for all of its error messages. These messages are displayed in the Output window within NetBeans and saved to a log file. The log file is located at $HOME/.netbeans/7.4/messages.log.
In my experience, the log file contains more information than is displayed in the NetBeans Output window.