NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #60

   The development phase of NetBeans 3.4 is in it's second
    half we reached Milestone 2 last week. You can track
    progress on:
    <http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/index.html>


    Some features are already available as prototype!
    For example you can try preview of drag'n'drop in window
    system (requires NetBeans dev. build and JDK 1.4):
    <http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17435>

    and you can follow the thread with comments on nbui:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=297722&listName=nbui>


    The discussion related to options redesign still continues.
    The proposal is on:
    <http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/hi/options/index.html>

    Svata send his comments related to Java specific options
    to nbui:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=294609&listName=nbui>


    Are you interested in SIM (Support Interface Module)?
    You can see their planned features for NetBeans 3.4:
    <http://sim.netbeans.org/plans/features34.html>

    and also user view:
    <http://sim.netbeans.org/nb34/userview.html>


    Tom Ball from SunLabs plans to contribute new module,
    which adds code metrics support to NetBeans!
    See thread:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=296066&listName=nbdev>


    Also, there is a new module Lexer on:
    <http://lexer.netbeans.org/index.html>
    The purpose of the lexer module is to build a list
    of tokens over the textual input.

    More info about this contribution:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=296297&listName=nbdev>


    David Konecny send an email about an idea how to get rid
    of (mounted filesystems == roots of classpath).
    See:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=296508&listName=nbdev>


    Svata published Classpath API/SPI requirements document on:
    <http://java.netbeans.org/Proposals/projects/classpath-reqs.html>

    You can follow the thread on nbdev:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=296866&listName=nbdev>

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