NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #125 - Jul 22, 2003

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Issue #125 - Jul 22, 2003
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** Announcements **

J2ME MIDP Development is now available for Netbeans IDE 3.5.  The
following modules are now available from the "Free Third-Party
Modules" folder on the Netbeans 3.5 Stable Auto Update center: J2ME
Wireless, JODE Integration, RetroGaurd Integration, and J2MEWTK
1.0.4_01.
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#377>

NetBeans 3.5.1 Release Candidate 1 (the "font fix release") is
available; fixes various issues for locales requiring large fonts,
such as Chinese:
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#375>

Sprout 12, NetBeans' monthly magazine, is available:
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/sprout/2003-07-14.html>

The third party software page has been updated with three more
additions: AquaFold's Aqua Data Studio, Minq Software AB's
DbVisualizer, and Quest Software's JClass.
<http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#379>


** nbdev: Developers at work **

Tim Boudreau has rewritten the property sheet; it's now available in
the 4.0 builds:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=549314&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=549314&listName=nbdev>>
New versions of jemmy and jelly were also released to support the
new property sheet.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548200&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548200&listName=nbdev>>

Steve Benigan has contributed Subversion VCS profiles for Windows 
and Unix:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550820&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550820&listName=nbdev>>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550884&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550884&listName=nbdev>>

David Konecny has announced version 2 of the Convertors API along 
with a working prototype:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=549129&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=549129&listName=nbdev>>

Aurele Venet proposes that we have "back" and "forward" buttons in
the editor, much like a browser, to navigate the jumplist:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550100&listName=nbui <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550100&listName=nbui>>

Tor Norbye proposes that we should change various default settings 
in the IDE (such as the abbreviation set, the import tool settings, 
etc.)
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548486&listName=nbdev <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548486&listName=nbdev>>


** nbusers: NetBeans user's digest **

Martin Brehovsky proposes that we bundle the Plastic Look and Feel
with NetBeans and make it the default (there's also a parallel 
thread on nbui):
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550051&listName=nbusers <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550051&listName=nbusers>>

Javadoc and Synchronization: do you know the advantages of not 
filling in the javadoc for methods which implement an interface 
where the interface already specifies a javadoc for the method?
Read this thread:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548141&listName=nbusers <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=548141&listName=nbusers>>

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