NetBeans Weekly News Issue #8

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Issue #9 - April 2, 2001
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Let's start with some statistics. We are about 10 days before NetBeans
release 3.2 release candidate 1. The numbers are not that nice as we would
wish they to be, but you can find some positive trends there too. Page
summarizing the bug hunting process in release 3.2 can be found at:
<http://qa.netbeans.org/release32/nb32-stats-w03.html>
Current bug number is close to 11000 but we pay attention to old bugs too.
The bug #296 was recently marked as resolved - wontfix. It didn't die even
it was so old. <http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=296>

Another hot topic is the performance of the IDE. Petr Nejedly started
interesting thread
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05133.html> 
which still continues showing everybody how important the performance is. If
you have tips, what could should be faster in the IDE, please join the
conversation.

In the last newsletter you could find a link to thread abound mounting too
many jar files into classpath. Well, the OpenAPI/Core guys didn't make any
drastic change before this release. So the Java developers decided to do so
and the classpath is now shorter. Result? Faster compilation and parsing,
less memory consumed and also the need for fixing some modules. You can find
more in:
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05190.html>
and following emails and you can let us know whether you like the change or
not.

Always liked Mac but disappointed by not being able to run NetBeans on it?
Things are changing. Details about how to run the IDE on Mac OS X are in
following email:
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05255.html> 

Not having the possibility to use HTML browser of your choice is
inconvenient. You can use external browser in the IDE now.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05134.html>
On the other hand it is nice when the browser is integrated into the IDE. It
looks we could have both, at least on Windows.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05177.html>

Interested in SOAP and web services development. IDOOX contributes new
modules supporting it. Don't be shy test them so hard as you test the IDE.
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05213.html>

If you want to start development of a new NetBeans module and you don't know
where to look first, you can find some useful hints in:
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg05478.html>

And of course we have to mention some more general emails about the IDE and
OpenAPIs which are worth of reading. Both written by Yarda. The first should
start discussion about the new Setting API which seems to be really
necessary to design
http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg01771.html
the second is about identifying CVS filesystems in the IDE repository
<http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05211.html>

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