NetBeans Weekly News #82

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Issue #82 - September 9, 2002
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* IRC Release Party

First virtual IRC party on IRC was held last week. Discussion will
continue - every Wednesday at 15:00 GMT. See the transcript from the
last chat:

<http://www.netbeans.org/articles/chat/chat040902.html>

More information:

<http://www.netbeans.org/articles/chat/>

* Announcements

Ingo Kegel from ej-technologies announced JProfiler Monitoring Edition.
It allows you to execute your applications from within Netbeans in a
monitored environment. It displays performance, memory and threading
data in a variety of views.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=375767&listName=nbannounce>

* General discussions

Maxym Mykhalchuk proposed to use JDK 1.4.1RC for building. See other
opinions about this topic at:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374411&listName=nbdiscuss>

Vincent Brabant proposed to create a web page on the www.netbeans.org
site that list books where authors speak about NetBeans and / or Sun One
Studio.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=375617&listName=nbdiscuss>

* User's digest

How to compile with JDK 1.3 when you run the IDE on JDK 1.4.1? See
the following thread for a solution:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=373980&listName=nbusers>

Robert Fellwock reported that NetBeans wouldn't start on his machine.
Fortunately, it seems that such problem could be easily solved:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374099&listName=nbusers>

How to remove src.zip from debug? It appears that NB 3.4 always steps
into JDK source code when debugging. Several people have sent how to
to solve this problem but after all it seems that there was a bug :( .

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374103&listName=nbusers>

Johan Johanson has asked for an update of utility that enables 
antialiasing on XFree86
by setting some rendering hint to antialias. It doesn't seem to work 
anymore
because of some restructuring of the ide.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374174&listName=nbusers>

How to jump to Filesystem from Editor? This functionality has not been
implemented yet but a solution exist.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374265&listName=nbusers>

Randahl Fink Isaksen asked for help. He by accident checked in all the
.class files in his file tree. Could anyone tell him what is the easiest
why to remove them from cvs using the NetBeans internal cvs support?

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374416&listName=nbusers>

Is NetBeans 3.4 totally useless? See the discussion at:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374992&listName=nbusers>

Refactoring in NetBeans. It was very interisting discussion inspired by
email from Florian Brunner.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=375149&listName=nbusers>

* Developer's weekly dosage

Petr Nejedly has played with implementation of PDF settings. His
comments started a quite big discussion about Settings infrastructure.

<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374123&listName=dev>

Another discussion about editor antialised support. Mila has integrated
a patch but it may affect performance so (as always ;-)) Trung wanted to
be sure that this feature is off by default.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=373531&listName=nbdev>

Discussion about which jdk should be used for building has been moved
from nbdiscuss.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=373657&listName=nbdev>

Web Module Discrepancy. Another big thread has been started by Chad
Johnson.

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=373834&listName=nbdev>

Discussion about synchronization primitives continues:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374230&listName=nbdev>


* Are you interested how does work on new Projects continue?

Jan Pokorsky collected comments on FileSets and published FileSet
specification:

<http://projects.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=374795&listName=dev>

and if you find projects related topics interesting, what about
joinining [email protected] mailing list.

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