NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #126

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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #126 - Jul 28, 2003
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/** Announcements **/

The Q-build from 2003/07/23 is promoted according to Daniel Mladek:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=553729&listName=nbdev


The Subversion profile for Version Control Module is now available 
in CVS. The credits belong to Steve Benigan who contributed it and
to Martin Entlicher who promtly integrated it. Hopefully it will
appear on AutoUpdate soon:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554170&listName=nbdev


/** Developments **/

Xerces library will be upgraded to more recent version. Maybe xalan 
will be upgraded as well. More here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554624&listName=nbdev

Another version of Convertor API - The Second Prototype - is
available for download, review and testing. Check it out soon, you 
will have to use it as it is going to be in the heart of NetBeans 
settings management:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554632&listName=nbdev

Recent improvements in property sheet look and feel generated 90% of
traffic on [email protected]. Everything started by description of 
functionality used by form editor and missing in the current 
implementation by Tomas Pavek:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554303&listName=nbui


/** Tips and tricks **/

Do you know that in order to build main trunk sources it is 
necessary to use ant 1.5 and remove some ant1.4.1 files out of the 
way?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554413&listName=nbdev

Is there a way to view all the references to an object to determine
why the object might not be getting garbage collected? Of course, 
use good profiler. It will show you exactly this:
http://performance.netbeans.org/articles/hat-howto/
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=550841&listName=dev

Interested in using NetBeans as base application platform and 
looking for answers to questions that you have? Check Alan McAuley 
questions
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=555553&listName=dev
and answers to them by Alan McAuley himself:
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=555918&listName=dev
Alan, good work digging the information from NetBeans website!

Do you need access to environment variables from NetBeans on UNIX
and Windows? You might need to know the difference:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=552373&listName=nbusers

/**  Miscellaneous **/

Searching for the XML Tree Editor?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554060&listName=nbusers

Do you want to work on NetBeans in Kuala Lumpur?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=552423&listName=nbjobs
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This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was instantiated by Yarda Tulach.
Next week issue's chief editor will be John Jullion-Ceccarelli.
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