NetBeans Weekly News #62

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Issue #62 - Apr 22, 2002
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Contributions


Tom Ball from SunLabs contributed a metrics module and is planning
to make it available using AutoUpdate Center.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=303281&listName=nbdev>

RefactorIT released new version of their module for NetBeans. The
well-known and widely requested "extract method" operation is
available. To learn how to extract methods in NetBeans visit:
<http://www.netbeans.org/articles/refactorit_beta_08.html>

XML module now bundles its own version of xalan. So if your module
needs to work with XSL transformations consider depending on the
shared xalan library as explained at
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=303022&listName=nbdev>

Need a part of CVS to store your joy module? A discussion about the
loaderswitcher contribution resulted in a proposal of "sandbox" for
transient modules
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=302624&listName=nbdev>


Discussions

Hot, hotter and even hottest discussions can be seen on nbui. Check
how many people contributed to discussion about module clusters
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbui&by=thread&from=10956>

Work on UI specification of options improvements seems to
reach its final state. Jano Rojcek started work on the
design specification.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=306532&listName=nbui>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=305911&listName=nbdev>

Bitter tears appeared in eyes of users of daily builds when floatable
workspace switcher has been removed. But let not the hope die -
Chris promised to design a replacement till Wednesday.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=304053&listName=nbui>
<http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22539>


What you should now?

Since last week we are using JDK 1.4 to produce daily builds of
NetBeans. We still have run on 1.3, but conditional usage of 1.4
features is allowed.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=306452&listName=nbdev>

A proposal to create and upload module nbm files to AutoUpdate Center
after each daily build for a benefit of our users and quality of the
product has shown on nbdev.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbdev&by=thread&from=11376>

As you might know Jesse and Tim are working on a book about NetBeans.
Its updated version is now available for review. So please try to
review at least a chapter - you will learn a thing or two about
NetBeans and your contribution will not be forgotten.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=307176&listName=nbnews_contrib>


Interested in Flames?

David returned back from vacation and full of enthusiasm started to
attack the disadvantages of keeping the number of classes as small
as possible. Here is a link to Tor's explaining why the beauty of
the code is not everything:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=305133&listName=nbdev>

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