NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #110

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Issue #110 - Apr 07, 2003
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** TEGAL release **

TEGAL (i.e. NetBeans 3.5) effort continues. An important message from
Trung who is release coordinator containing updated dates promises that
build from Apr-06 to Apr-07 night will become a candidate for the beta.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=493158&listName=nbdev

TEGAL Release Schedule: Look at
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/35/index.html.

While we are waiting for NetBeans 3.5 Beta there is another q-build
promoted
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=494855&listName=nbdev
http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-200303252350.html.

** new goals **

Those who move to NetBeans 3.5 may need to update their sources to
reflect changes done during this release. Some usefull links:
Upgrade guide
http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/OpenAPIs/org/openide/doc-files/upgrade.html

All NetBeans APIs Documentation for release 3.5
http://www.netbeans.org/download/release35/javadoc/

** other topics from discussions **

Property sheets - Tim is working on new implementation of property
sheets as you can see in his mail to nbdev. Recently he made couple of
changes that can help module writers.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=493820&listName=nbdev
http://openide.netbeans.org/proposals/propertysheet2.html
http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/OpenAPIs/apichanges.html#boolean.editor.hints

Planning - Petr Kuzel shares his experience how to use IssueZilla and
XML for this.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=492460&listName=nbdev

Cliff Draper finished announced split of schema2beans module into
runtime and development library. Other modules building on top of
schema2beans will benefit from it.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=488385&listName=nbdev


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