NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #12

NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #12 - April 23, 2001
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-04-23.html

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NetBeans 3.2 release seems to be next week! Today's Release Candidate 3 may
be the final build if no critical bugs appear. Otherwise we will create RC4
build during this week. Feel free to download RC3 and try it!
	- Subject: "[NB 3.2] Release Candidate 3 is available"
	- URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06144.html
	- Download: http://www.netbeans.org/downloads.html
	- Quality of RC3:
http://qa.netbeans.org/release32/nb32-stats-w06.html

Did you know how many platforms is NetBeans running on? The number is
growing! Check our updated screenshots if your platform is listed:
	- http://www.netbeans.org/articles/screenshots.html

Doug Dew from BEA notified of the Campaign Manager for WebLogic, a just
released tool based on NetBeans. This tool is completely un-IDE-like. It is
a perfect example of how NetBeans is possible to extend. It opened a
discussion about NetBeans as a tools platform, and other long term goals.
	- Subject: "BEA ships NetBeans-based campaign management tool"
	- URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05967.html
	- BEA download:
http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/commerce_servers.jsp
	- The NetBeans Vision: http://www.netbeans.org/articles/vision.html

Would you like to mount Javadocs from a web server as a NetBeans file
system? Use the New HTTP Javadoc file system Module - contributed by Jeff
Keyser:
	- http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00051.html

NetBeans 3.3 planning is starting. Iwan Eising proposed his TODO tracker
module. After a lot of feedback the module was  extended to NetBeans
Annotation Module (N-BAM). Feedback is welcome. Ideas and comments are split
into three mail threads:
	- http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06030.html (last version)
	- http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg05875.html
	- http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg06168.html

Some short news, which developers should notice:
	- Jesse's API & Module Versioning:
http://openide.netbeans.org/versioning-policy.html
	- Do you want DnD for Nodes?
http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg01917.html
	- New Projects for NB3.3: http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/index.html

You might notice that performance improvement is currently one of the most
important goals for NetBeans. Petr Nejedly is working on current performance
issues - results and solutions at :
	- http://www.netbeans.org/performance/survey.html

We are announcing the start of NetBeans in Education Community. The main
goal of the community is to bring together people dealing with teaching
Java, Computer Science or just interested in new ways of using the internet
in the classroom.
	- http://edu.netbeans.org
	- Subscribe to [email protected] at
http://www.netbeans.org/mail-top.html

Did you have any problems with finding documents at netbeans.org web site?
Our webmasters prepared useful site map:
	- http://www.netbeans.org/site_map.html

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