Change JRE in NetBeans project

Question

I have a NetBeans project which is using the JRE 1.4 environment which means I can\'t use generics.

How can I change the project to use 1.6 (?) so I can use generics

Answer 1

There is a bug in NetBeans 8.0.2

When undertaking the above steps in changing JRE or JDK for a project, NetBeans attempts to save the project with the new JDK (9 in this instance) but it goes into an infinite loop and eventually gives an OutOfMemoryError: