NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #107

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Issue #107 - Mar 17, 2003
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* TEGAL - Netbeans 3.5 release

It's time to update version specification numbers in the module
manifests for the NB 3.5 release

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=482428&listName=nbdev>


* QBuild:

After two initial problems were solved, last week's QBuild was promoted:

<http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200303112350.html>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=483383&listName=nbdev>


* Contributions:

A bunch of task-list related modules were added to the NetBeans module
catalogue

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=482629&listName=catalogue-updates>


* nbusers:

J2SE v. 1.4.1 has been released for the Mac....

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=480799&listName=nbusers>

....but there are some problems using it with the NetBeans IDE

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=483436&listName=nbusers>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=483539&listName=nbusers>


* nbdev:

Eric Bodden has code for static analysis that could be turned into a
NetBeans module:

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=484180&listName=nbdev>

A discussion about the IDE's Java Source Parser and IDE responsiveness

<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=484045&listName=nbdev>


* open-ide

More discussion on using the NetBeans platform with some comparison to
using the Eclipse platform

<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&by=thread&from=17514>

The deprecation of TopManager and Places makes it harder to work with
examples presented in the O'Reilly NetBeans book

<http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=480667&listName=dev>


* nbdiscuss

In the upcoming NetBeans website redesign, it will again be possible to
customize navigation per module. For more details

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=482160&listName=nbdiscuss

More discussion on problems with DirectDraw, Java, and the IDE

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=482242&listName=nbusers


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