Fixing Netbeans RIM Integration On Windows 7 And Vista

For some reason which is entirely unclear to me the guys who implemented Netbeans RIM integration chose to copy the resulting COD files from the dist directory to the RIM program files directory effectively breaking this integration for newer MS OS's which fixed the faulty behavior of a user writeable program files directory.
The problem is that the error you get is misleading, it claims that the directory is read only and when trying to change the read-only status windows "seems" to do some work but fails. The reason for the problem is permissions and fixing this problem is actually quite easy once you understand that.


First go to the Program Files directory (or Program files x86 for 64 bit machines) and select the RIM directory.

Right click and select properties, go to the security tab and click edit.

Select your user name from the list and check the allow for all the boxes, click OK for all the dialogs (this will take a bit of time since the operation is recursive).