NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #126

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Issue #126 - August 1, 2003
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** nbdev: Developers at work **

Petr Kuzel proposed updating the version of Xerces XML parser to version 
2.4.0:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=553978&listName=nbdev 
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=553978&listName=nbdev>>
And also to upgrade the version of Xalan XSLT processor to version 2.5.1.
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554616&listName=nbdev 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554616&listName=nbdev>>

Several threads about the new property sheet implementation on nbui:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554303&listName=nbui 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554303&listName=nbui>>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=555841&listName=nbui 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=555841&listName=nbui>>
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=558059&listName=nbui 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=558059&listName=nbui>>

The discussion of the new Convertor API continues:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554632&listName=nbdev 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=554632&listName=nbdev>>

As does the discussion about cleaning up defaults and especially 
eliminating certain keyboard shortcuts:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=557696&listName=nbdev 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=557696&listName=nbdev>>


** nbusers: NetBeans user's digest **

A discussion on the state of Find and Replace functionality in the IDE:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=559054&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=559054&listName=nbusers>>

Some people have been having trouble stepping through the JDK API sources:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=556789&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=556789&listName=nbusers>>

An interesting thread with lots of tips about overriding methods from a 
superclass, synchronizing changes, import statements, etc,:
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=558985&listName=nbusers 
<http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=558985&listName=nbusers>>

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