Netbeans Weekly News - Issue #70

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Issue #70 - Jun 17, 2002
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* Announcements

Sun ONE Studio 4 (formerly Forte[tm] for Java[tm]) is now available for 
immediate download from :
http://wwws.sun.com/software/sundev/jde/buy/index.html
See also the announcement from Mike Gisondi :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332970&listName=nbusers

New mailing list created : "[email protected]" .
There is a new initiative about how to make NetBeans "proactively 
assisting developers to produce/generate reliable applications and 
modules faster".
The focus is mainly on: design patterns based code generation, 
refactoring, automated code review and MDA tools integration support. 
This initiative should bring a two years plan proposal in mid of August.
For the discussion purposes this new mailing list  was created. You can 
subscribe to it by sending mail at [email protected] .
See 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=333773&listName=productivity> 
for  more info.

David Strupl announced the availability of the NetBeans Lookup Library :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=333433&listName=nbannounce

Jan Becicka announced removing javadoc tab from the Explorer in NB 3.4 :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332758&listName=nbusers

New versions of the Using NetBeans chapters for the upcoming O'Reilly 
book on NetBeans are online:
http://www.netbeans.org/about/books/
See also the announcement from Jesse Glick :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=333207&listName=nbusers

Jesse Glick : new *beta* release of the API Support module, version 
2.12, intended for use with NetBeans 3.4 (beta).
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332636&listName=dev

* Builds

Download Netbeans IDE 3.3.2 and Netbeans IDE 3.4 beta 1:
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html

The weekly Q-build was not released.
Marian Mirilovic announced that development build of NetBeans 3.4 
#200206120100 didn't meet all of the criteria necessary for announcing 
it as Q-Build
See : http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200206120100.html

* Discussions

Jesse Glick started the discussion about the Netbeans3.4 branching :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332586&listName=nbdev

Switching between different indentation styles :
An interesting solution sugested by Nick Pierpoint : 
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332164&listName=nbusers

The feedback about NB3.4 Beta 1
Vincent Brabant wrote :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332410&listName=nbusers
Jesse Glick answered :
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=332522&listName=nbusers

Problem with parsing hybrid XML documents :
See the discussion : 
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=333084&listName=nbusers

Moving Data Objects.
See the discussion : 
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=334885&listName=dev

How to modify the property sheets ?
See : http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=335085&listName=dev

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