NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #20

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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #20 - June 18, 2001
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-06-18.html

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........::::::::  Contributions  ::::::::........

- Sergey Izvoztchikov contributed an early release of DB Tool Module;
  you can find the jar at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00058.html
  and read more about it at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07747.html

- Thomas Ball contributed a library which provides JVM classfile reading 
  capabilities; the jar is at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00061.html

- Vlad Koval and Matthew Schmidt contributed the sources of the Xbrowser
  and Jrenderer for the proposed new browser project called NetBrowser;
  the sources are at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00059.html for Jrenderer
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-contrib/msg00060.html for Xbrowser

  you can also find out more about the NetBrowser under the chapter 
  Proposals in this Newsletter

.......::::::::  Proposals  ::::::::........
 
- Ivan Soleimanipour submitted a proposal for a configurable terminal 
  emulator 
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07640.html

- Jan Zajicek proposed mechanism (progress bar nodes),
  that will present to the user some selected threads, such as deleting
  or pasting (ModuleActions) and it can be f.e. compilation too.  You 
  can find more info at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07674.html

- NetBrowser
  Matthew Smidt proposed a new NetBeans project, it would be a Java 
  browsers integrated into NetBeans, you can follow the thread at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07776.html

.......::::::::  Discussions  ::::::::........

- Should we start promoting the NetBeans Tools Platform? Or maybe 
  we should call it the NetBeans Developer or Vltava?  You can find more 
  in the following threads
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07707.html
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg07531.html

- It seems that there is a lot of interest in localizing the IDE,  
  currently there are full English and Japanese localizations.  There 
  is also a version in French.  Currently work is being done on 
  Russian and Spanish, and it seems that Chinese is on the way!
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdiscuss/msg00487.html

- Probably the longest discussion on NBdev is regarding the Lexer 
  module, this week the thread continued
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg06768.html

- Everytime people get critical about the IDE, the community is
  always concerned
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbusers/msg08555.html

.......::::::::  Web  ::::::::........

- netbeans.org will be upgraded to CollabNet's SourceCast, which means 
  a lot of new functionality to the NetBeans community
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbannounce/msg00042.html

- There are 24 companies listed on the "Who is building on top of 
  NetBeans" We added three more companies this week, Embarcadero 
  Technologies, Mslinn.com and SIP Technologies Limited, you can find 
  out what they are doing with NetBeans at
  http://www.netbeans.org/third-party.html

- As you know, a lot of companies are building on top of NetBeans.  
  They seek consultants and developers knowledgeable in the NetBeans 
  architecture.  Therefore we've created a mailing list for job 
  posting. You can subscribe to the list by sending a blank email to 
  [email protected], advertise a job by sending the email to 
  [email protected], or view the existing advertisements at
  http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbjobs/

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