NetBeans Weekly News Issue #8

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Issue #8 - March 26, 2001
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Welcome to issue #8 of the NetBeans Weekly News.


Administrivia: currently the newsletter is cross-posted to all top level
mailing lists, namely nbannounce, nbusers, nbdev and nbui.  It means
people who subscribe to all these mailing lists get four copies of the
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subscribed to nbannounce.  We may stop cross posting starting from next
week.


We are in the middle of the beta phase of NetBeans IDE 3.2 release.
Please keep testing, reporting and fixing bugs.  Nominate your
candidates for hot bugs which should be fixed in 3.2.  See NetBeans QA
website

    "NetBeans 3.2 Beta Bug Parade"
    URL: http://qa.netbeans.org/release32/netbeans32_bugs.html


We are intensively tracking performance issues in NetBeans.  Petr
Nejedly posted some interesting findings regarding uses of Exceptions

    Subject: Performance - exceptions
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05011.html


By default all IDE's jar files (in 3.2 there are cca 70 of them) are put
in classpath for compilation, debugging and execution.  Some people
think this is evil and should be corrected.  See thread

    Subject: IDE Class Loader vs. My Application Class loader
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04898.html


There is a long thread about writable JarFileSystem on nbdev, worth
reading

    Subject: Writeable JarFileSystem
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04929.html


Source editor in NB 3.2 has several new cool features: fast open, fast
import, keyboard macros

    Subject: [editor] New features in the editor module in release 3.2
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg05204.html


Yarda is proposing an addition in the autoupdate module, which would
give the user a convenient way to download third-party libraries which
for some reason we don't want or cannot bundle with NBM files

    Subject: Enhance Autoupdate (was: [nbdev] IBM Public License)
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04924.html


New version of xtest framework is available.  Feedbacks are very much
welcomed

    Subject: XTest iteration II available
    URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04971.html


Bug statistics

    Open bugs

        P1:     12  ( +5)
        P2:     35  (-13)
        P3:    187  (-10)
        P4:    243  ( +3)
        P5:     81  ( +3)
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        Total: 558  (-12)

    Last week changes:

             NEW : 154
           FIXED : 138
        RESOLVED : 184


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