NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #51

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Issue #51 - February 04, 2002
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I'm not sure how to start this newsletter. Petr Hamernik told me that
the newsletter is celebrating it's first birthday. But he also mentioned
that we've released the 3.3.1. 

So let's start with the product:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=251149&listName=nbdev>
The release 3.3.1 is out and available for download:
<http://www.netbeans.org/downloads-rel.html>
According to rumors it should be the best NetBeans release we've ever
had. (less bugs, better performance, new features, etc...) So, you are
welcome to download it and find some minuses, to allow the next release
be even better.

One year ago, on January 29th 2001 Trung wrote the zeroth issue of the
NetBeans Weekly News. 
<http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-01-29.html>
There were 50 other issues written by 16 different people during the
year. We've had 5 releases of the NetBeans IDE. There were lots of
postings on the mailing lists. Just to mention the four main lists
nbdev: 10256, nbusers: 11604, nbui: 3521 and openide: 3851. Also the bug
population seems to be still vital 10257 new issues were born, 9620 died
in the battle. Don't worry I'm not going to count how many lines of code
were changed. I just would like to mention that the family of NetBeans
modules has several new members and that the list of people and
companies, who build their applications based on NetBeans became longer.
It looks like the NetBeans community was pretty active last year.
Hopefully the next year will be at least as successful as this one.

(Disclaimer: No there are not 1000 bugs more in the product than one
year before :-). The number of issues is a raw count from Issuezilla,
which includes defects and enhancements in all projects hosted on
www.netbeans.org)

So, that was for the celebration and now a little bit of the standard
stuff.

New beta version of the RefactorIt module for NetBeans was just
released. If you are wondering what all can this module do for you more
information is available at:
<http://www.netbeans.org/articles/refactorit.html>

After the XML module another useful module should be added into the
NetBeans standard build: the Visual diff module.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=246909&listName=nbdev>

The discussion about how a Java metamodel should look like continues:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=251380&listName=nbdev>

Are you using OptimizeIt for fine tuning the performance of NetBeans
based application? Trung's scripts for running NetBeans under OptimizeIt
might be what you are looking for:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=247600&listName=nbdev>

Jesse implemented several enhancements in the NetBeans modules
installation:
<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=245202&listName=dev>

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