I have a license to a copy of Zend Development Environment version 5.2.0 . Having used this wonderful program now for just over a year I now find myself pretty much unable to develop productively with out it.
I recently switched to Arch linux from Ubuntu. My problem with Ubuntu was that it was simply working too well and didn’t really have the scope for breaking things. Despite this I had managed to break Zend Studio by using Java 6. See screenshot.
After much head scratching and reading of Java documentation I found the only solution was to go back to Java 5. It seems to have a different awt toolkit implementation.
Arch linux has a really good friendly old school noodler community and it’s wiki contains this marvelous and little know piece of information
You must choose the 5.0 version (Java 6 is incompatible on linux).
Nowhere else on the interweb have I been able to find that nugget of info. I seem to remember apt-get messed up the java paths when going from Java 6 to 5. Arch’s pacman package management didn’t though. One of the main reasons I chose this distro is that by a strange quirk the only official UK repository is in fact my old school.