NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #19

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Issue #19 - June 11, 2001
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* News

George Dvorak opened the discussion about NetBeans as a IDE vs. Tools
Platform. 
According to Pavel Buzek's reply more and more people are asking about
this.

        Subject: NetBeans Tools Platform? 
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07531.html
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07539.html

A new application based on NetBeans proved that NetBeans is becoming a
Tools
Platform - ESC International built its MINEX on top of NetBeans. Minex V
is an integrated software solution for the evaluation and planning of
open-cut 
and underground mines for both coal and minerals. Something completely
different 
than an IDE:
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/third-party.html

The release 3.3 schedule seems to be resolved. According to Dan
Pfeffer's e-mail, 
the Metadata Repository will only be an experimental module in NetBeans
3.3, 
so the schedule can remain unchanged as proposed.
        http://www.netbeans.org/release33/

        Subject: [nb 3.3] schedule + web page
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07589.html

We have a new module for NetBeans - Graphical Class Diagram Editor. The
Diagram Editor graphically displays packages/classes/interfaces,
extends/implements, methods/fields.
        Subject: New NetBeans Module: Graphical Class Diagram Editor
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg08308.html

* Quality

Jan Chalupa announced the new weekly "Q-builds" process. "Q-build" is a
build with an assured level of quality, which will be subject to QA
testing and which the developers and courageous users are expected to
use 
for their production work.
        Subject: New QA Process: Weekly Q-builds
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07496.html

In the first week of the Q-build process QA discovered some bugs, which 
caused build #206 to not be promoted as a Q-build. It is supposed that 
developers will read the report and fix the most serious bugs by next
week.
        http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/Q-build-report-206.html

        Subject:#206 is not a Q-build
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07562.html

* Performance

The performance seems to be a topic of the week - Petr Nejedly analyzed
classloading during startup
        Subject: Eager class loading
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07449.html
        Subject: Eager class loading II
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07454.html

Trung sent out the main goals for performance improvements for release
3.3 and the plan to achieve these goals. 
Please read this:
        Subject: Improve the performance of NetBeans
        http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07586.html

* Proposals and Interesting discussions

Annotations (AKA Glyphs): A new document was submitted describing 
the general mechanism of annotations in NetBeans. 
It defines an API and also concrete implementation of annotations
visualization in NetBeans editor.
       
http://editor.netbeans.org/doc/Proposals/Annotations/UsersView.html

        Subject: Annotations (aka Glyphs) User's View
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07498.html (nbdev)
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg02155.html (nbui)

Maarten 't Hooft is working on Bug Submission Module. Are you interested
in it?
        Subject: Bug Submission Module
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07545.html

A new ComponentPalette API proposal for FormEditor was submitted by
Josef Kozak.
	http://form.netbeans.org/doc/ComponentPalette/CP_API_proposal.htm
        http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/palette/PaletteUV.html

        Subject: formeditor: ComponentPalette API proposal
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07436.html

Maya Venkatraman proposed how to solve shortcut conflicts in the
NetBeans IDE. Look at her proposal sent to nbui:
        Subject: Shortcut conflicts - Proposed Solutions
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbui/msg02199.html

Are you interested in a Russian version of NetBeans? Read this:
        Subject: NetBeans in Russian
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg08383.html

        Subject: Q: NetBeans Localization HOW-TO
        URL: http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07599.html

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