Out-of-the-box
The Intellij IDEA IDE from JetBrains is one of those tools I have wanted to like for years now but it seems I am coming at things from a different perspective and so far it has not worked for me. I take it for a spin now and then (purchased licenses several times over the years to go beyond a short evaluation) and I thought the recent release of 13 signaled it was time to try it again. I downloaded the free Community Edition. I decided to create a JavaFX application as my first action. I tried it on a MacBook which happen to have a recent build of Java 8 on it. IDEA found the JDK (this may have been from a previous installation) OK but the app would not run. The Fatal Error that greeted me after I clicked the Run button was: unable to find package java.lang in classpath or bootclasspath My correction was to remove and add back the SDK. (File -> Project Structure -> SDKs) I'm not sure how extreme this might be considered by IDEA lo...