NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #134

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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #134 - Sep 22, 2003
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2003-09-22.html
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/**nbusers*/

Have you forgotten how to use one of the many features in NetBeans? Not to worry, there's always someone ready to help out -here's a reminder on how to split the editor panel:

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583701&listName=nbusers

Need help pointing NetBeans to J2EE? Make sure that the right JAR's are mounted in the IDE.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583119&listName=nbusers

Have you ever wondered how to use the JNDI module in NetBeans? There are several things you need to do have in place and these posts should help get you started.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=582869&listName=nbusers
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583373&listName=nbusers

/**nbui*/

The discussion continues on how to best support and expose module management in NetBeans. Is there a large user base who want to actively manage the set of modules in the IDE? Are there many modules providing similar functionality that a user needs to account for and choose between? These are some of the questions still bouncing around on the thread.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583780&listName=nbui

/**nbdev*/

Work continues in the Registry API. Two new proposals have been floated for dealing with display names and the ordering of (configuration) objects.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583687&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=583664&listName=nbdev

Jesse Glick asks if there is wide spread usage of the Javadoc Autocomment feature with the suggestion to remove the feature and rely on support provided by the tasklist.

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=579258&listName=nbdev

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This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was instantiated by Chris Le Dantec.
Next week issue's chief editor will be Dafe Simonek.
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