NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #66

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Issue #66 - May 20, 2002
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NetBeans 3.4 are now in feature freeze. (Except UI, which was postponed
to May 29 and also task #21354, which will be done in one more week.)
May 15 was also the Milestone 4 date.

Unfortunately, there is no Q- and Milestone 4 build. Report at
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200205170100.html

See release schedule:
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/index.html

Summary of planned features:
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/34/features/nb34-features-overview.html

UI issues:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=320103&listName=nbui


SIPtech (www.siptech.com) is pleased to introduce their NetBeans-JBoss
Integration module - NbJBoss. NbJBoss is a NetBeans module that
integrates the NetBeans IDE with the JBoss[tm] Application Server.

http://www.netbeans.org/articles/NbJBoss_Writeup.html


Discussions

[nbdev]

Datasystems are one of the most important parts of NetBeans. Recently,
Yarda proposed draft of new Datasystems API. Discussion continues with
more specific topic: Datasystems threading.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=318046&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=317850&listName=nbdev

Original message:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=314721&listName=nbdev

Proposal:
http://openide.netbeans.org/proposals/loaders/


Milos posted proposal about redesigning JAR packager module. Requirements
are part of proposal. There are a lot of motivations to do such changes, 
e.g.
it should be integrated with the new projects infrastructure.
http://jarpackager.netbeans.org/design40.html
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=318209&listName=nbdev


There are lot of modules hosted on netbeans.org. Jan Lahoda recently
contributed player control module. It is example of tiny module, which does
not need its own project on the site. Discussion covers topic how to 
publish
such modules.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=318065&listName=nbdev

People agree with Jesse's suggestion:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=320253&listName=nbdev


[nbui]

Dirk Ruiz announced change of the default windowing mode - in dev builds,
it is now MDI.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=319392&listName=nbui


Debugger has new icons.
Motivations include A11Y, I18N, bugs, etc. David-John Burrowes published
document about changes: The NetBeans Debugger Interface - Icon Revisions.
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/hi/debugger3.4/icons/index.html

See what people like on them and send your comments.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=318103&listName=nbui


[nbusers]

Discussion about audit module continues. This module should support code
conventions check (e.g. Sun code conventions) and should provide 
customization.
At least two current projects trying to do that. Nicolai Czempin suggested
to join effort and create one module with improved and extended 
functionality.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=319074&listName=nbusers
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=319913&listName=nbusers

Current projects:
http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/

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