NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #15

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Issue #15 - May 14, 2001
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Release news:

- There have been several compliments on 3.2.  Great job and thanks to the 
entire team for all the hard work that went into the release!
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06544.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06546.html>

- Now planning is moving forward for 3.3.  Petr Hamernik has been nominated as 
the 3.3 release coordinator.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06497.html>

- There is also planning for some updates before 3.3:
	- a 3.2.1 update
	- a branch to work with SDK 1.4
	- a branch for Forte for Java
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06586.html>


Contributions:

- A WebL module which integrates Compaq's web language has been contributed by 
Adam Sotona.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06463.html>

- Jeff Keyser's JavaDoc HTTP filesystem has been added to the CVS dev trunk by 
Petr Suchomel.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06496.html>

- George Dvorak started a thread to find out who is developing on top of the 
NetBeans framework.  The list is at <http://www.netbeans.org/third-party.html>.  
There have been some interesting responses so far.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06524.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06542.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06557.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06559.html>

- After interesting discussion on the output window and the need for terminal 
emulation, it looks like we may soon have a contribution from Ivan Soleimanipour 
for his termulator:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06556.html>


Proposals:

 - Jesse published a proposal for a bootstrap launcher which would ultimately 
make more of the core updatable via the update center.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06583.html>
 <http://core.netbeans.org/proposals/smart-launcher-and-updater.html>


Interesting Discussions:

- There have been a number of discussions about Lookup this week.  The first was 
started by Yarda about persistence of lookup results:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06485.html>

- Next was (also started by Yarda =) of course) about the interaction of lookup 
and propertysheet and its similarity to the ServiceType/PropertyEditor 
relationship.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06528.html>

- Finally, an enhancement to the APIs to support persistence was posted by 
Yarda:
 <http://openide.netbeans.org/openide-dev/msg02245.html>

- Speaking of ServiceTypes, there was some discussion about how to prioritize or 
order them.  After one proposal to use the manifest, it seems the consensus is 
instead to have xml layers support this.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06571.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06579.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06582.html>

- On the UI front, Ian posted some defaults for the different workspaces when 
using MDI.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01943.html>

- There's also been renewed interest in seeing the freestyle browser in action 
after frustration with finding the BeanInfo functionality.  Petr Hrebejk is 
working on creating a version which can be used as a demo.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01940.html>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01950.html>

- If you're interested in using NetBeans with skinlf, we've had a helper jar and 
instructions posted by an anonymous member =):
 <http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg01957.html>
 <http://www.l2fprod.com/software/skinlf/>


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