Hi,
I searched many sites (including forums.sun.com: see e.g. http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=753501)
-- still I cannot find a solution that would work for me.
Here is a full description - hopefully somebody has solved it on Mac and will help me...
1) To reproduce, I select anything (say String) in NetBeans, ^-click and select "Show Javadoc": the result is a tiny gray message "*Cannot perform Show Javadoc here*".
2) I have a Mac and Netbeans 6.7.1, installed java 1.6, it (seems to me) came without docs:
@ /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions> ls -alrt
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 20 2009 1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 May 21 02:34 1.4.2
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 May 21 02:34 1.5.0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Nov 17 10:45 1.6.0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 18 13:14 1.3 -> 1.3.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 18 13:15 1.4 -> 1.4.2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 18 13:15 1.5 -> 1.5.0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 18 13:15 1.6 -> 1.6.0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Nov 18 13:15 Current -> A
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Nov 18 13:15 A
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 Nov 18 13:15 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 18 13:30 CurrentJDK -> 1.6
drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 476 Nov 18 13:30 .
@/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions> find . -name docs.\*
./1.4.2/Home/docs.jar
./1.5.0/Home/docs.jar
3) I added
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/docs.jar
to "Platform Manager" / JDK 1.6 / javadoc -- in vain, nothing's changed.
...
According to all major search engines, this problem seems to exist for years and is experienced by many.
It is really frustrating.
Please help!