Netbeans Weekly News - Issue #53

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Issue #53 - February 18, 2002
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At the begining of release cycle ...
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* Netbeans 3.3.1 was released a few weeks ago and we
are in the planning phase again. If you are interested
in 3.4 (4.0) plans you can view feature lists for modules.
Some nice feature lists are:

http://core.netbeans.org/plans/index.html
http://projects.netbeans.org/plans/features.html
http://java.netbeans.org/plans/features.html
http://xml.netbeans.org/plans/features.html
http://ui.netbeans.org/plans/features.html

* Netbeans's motto is "Quality Is a Feature!", that's why QA launched
the Q-builds program more than half year ago. After the stabilazation
phase of 3.3.1, Q-builds are back again and help us to keep Netbeans
in good shape.
I am pretty sure everybody knows what the Q-builds program is, but ...
Q-builds Program
http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/q-builds-program.html
Q-report for build #200202150100
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200202150100.html


Discussions
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* Yarda finished reworking of the Looks API in openidex/looks module
and it started another round of discussion about looks. See the
following topics:
[nbdev] Another Look question
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=257884&listName=nbdev

Re: [nbdev] ProxyLook
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=258592&listName=nbdev

Re: [nbdev] Looks & Badging
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=259273&listName=nbdev

Re: [nbdev] Why Look works only against a Node ?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=259551&listName=nbdev

[nbdev] Looks patch: please review.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=262088&listName=nbdev


* Performance is still our big goal for 3.4 and memory profiling is
one of methods developers can use to improve performance of IDE. Petr
Nejedly wrote a guide which describes usage of HAT/hprof tool for that
task.
See his "How to use HAT on NetBeans" article on
http://performance.netbeans.org/articles/hat-howto/index.html


* It seems like Yarda is able to speed up the IDE startup time by
persisting
lookup cache between IDE sessions. Implementation isn't trivial and
it raised the question of using Lookup vs. JNDI for well-addressable
non-shared
stuff, read more on
Re: [nbdev] Possible 5% startup time improvement
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=260573&listName=nbdev


* Couple of weeks ago Lea Anthony started a discussion about the name
we use for "GUI Editing" workspace . This originally very simple
question
provoked people to thing about the workpsaces concept at all.
Some people find workpsaces useful, some don't like them mainly
due to slow switching. Can we expect solutions (even radical) or will
this die in the noise of nbui@ alias like many other things?
Read the thread [nbui] "GUI Editing" on
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=219634&listName=nbui
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=259059&listName=nbui


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