NetBeans Weekly News #123

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Issue #123 - 07/07, 2003
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** Major announcements **

Russian Edition of NetBeans 3.5 Tegal is available for mass consumption.
  Read the announcement at
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=542592&listName=nbannounce>. 


Thanks, Maxym and everyone who participated in the effort!

** nbdev: Developers at the work **

The next phase of settings API rewrite is being commented in
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=538022&listName=nbdev>.
Do we need convertors at all ?

Quck info: do not bother closing issues, QA will close them for you as
Jesse notes in
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=538019&listName=nbdev>
(and flood our mailboxes and servers with close noticiations at the same
time).

Jesse has prepared a big step forward for Ant - you will be able to
choose which ant implementation will be used by the integration module.
Read complete proposal at
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=542604&listName=nbdev>.

Have you coded a custom property editor and you don't want or like text
editing of the value ? Read Tim's advice at
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=543027&listName=nbdev>.

** nbusers: NetBeans user's digest **

RefactorIt's price skyrocketed
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=536369&listName=nbusers>.
How to get affordable refactoring features and stick with NetBeans ?
Read suggestions in
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=536379&listName=nbusers>

Do you think the explorer tree is sluggish when it is being opened for
the first time ? There may be something fishy as Petr indicates in
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=540192&listName=nbusers>.

Maxym thinks about the new Rave project and its inter-operability with
NetBeans modules:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=541543&listName=nbusers>.

How to recover from change of a JFrame to a JPanel is still a mystery:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=542595&listName=nbusers>.
be careful when you are changing the base class of your form!

Simple thing turns out to be a tough task: Run NetBeans on JDK 1.4, but
compile to JDK-1.3. Read advices
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=542686&listName=nbusers>
or
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=542707&listName=nbusers>
and look forward to the new Projects system.

** nbdiscuss **

Discussion about various update center flavours, their contents and
stability levels is still going on. Compare how Microsoft does Windows
Update
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=535955&listName=nbdiscuss>
   and take a look at another Dan's proposal at
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=539173&listName=nbdiscuss>.

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