NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #105

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* TEGAL - NetBeans 3.5 release

Trung became the release coordinator for NetBeans 3.5 release. We all wish
him good luck!
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=472926&listName=nbdiscuss
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=472961&listName=nbdiscuss


Branch "release35" created on Friday (February 28th).
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474369&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=475596&listName=nbdev


Read the rules for commits into "release35" branch. See also the next mails
in the thread explaining details (we are not in high resistance mode yet,
no code review required, though just fixing P1/P2, the rules apply only on
code changes, etc).
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=475395&listName=nbdev


* Q build

The Q-build candidate (#200302260100) have not passed the quality criteria
this week. See the report.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=473920&listName=nbdev
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200302260100.html


* nbusers

A long running thread about NetBeans performance, charging whatever from
video card drivers (read this thread if you have problems with ATI cards)
to bad architecture of modules. However, there are several remarks about
promising improvements in coming NetBeans 3.5.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=471598&listName=nbusers


Another heated thread that does not seem to end soon, this time about the
NetBeans UI. Just the subject: Netbeans look and feel is extremely inferior !!!
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474056&listName=nbusers


People seem to have enough mails like in the two threads above. This one
also started like "NetBeans is ... , look at competition it is great", but
turned over quickly to a serie of recommendations how one could help rather
than complain all the time. So don't believe that "Sun has spoilt their own
image with Netbeans, and it is too late now".
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474666&listName=nbusers


After some time, there are (once again) three requests for two-way GUI builder
(or at least for a capability to import forms from .java code). This seems to
be significant barrier for people leaving JBuilder.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=473006&listName=nbusers
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=472443&listName=nbusers
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474540&listName=nbusers


Luckily, no new thread about refactoring started, the only attempt was choked
immediately ;-).
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474360&listName=nbusers


* nbdev

Some time ago, we asked people for testing -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC switch
for performance and reliability (suspecting it for causing severe performance
problems, besides the improvements). See the summary done by Trung.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476306&listName=nbdev


Tim run into a not very nice practice in NetBeans code: lots of nodes are
abusing firePropertyChange (fire null names, or changes of properties they
don't have). Read "Property names and property sheet and firing changes?"
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=473015&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=31553


Another property change firing problem, now in performance and scalability
area. How to update displayed names of all nodes in explorer effectively?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=473987&listName=nbdev


A discussion about debug builds vs. optimized builds.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=471971&listName=nbdev


Yarda suggested to improve usability of AutoUpdate.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=476242&listName=nbdev


I18N: Maxym reminds us we (NetBeans developers) have a new easy way for
setting text with mnemonics to labels and buttons - just specifying it
by '&' character inside the text string. This makes the mnemonic definition
easier and also better localizable. See a discussion about supporting this
in the form editor.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474134&listName=nbdev


* openide-dev

Curious about why are actions performed in other than AWT thread?
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=472464&listName=dev


Problems with focus in TopComponent? Try the following thread.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=474513&listName=dev


Another attempt to build something on top of the form designer component
from the form editor. Does not seem to be trivial, but could be possible.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=470336&listName=dev


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