Newsletter #23

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Issue #23 - July 9, 2001
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nb-discuss traffic
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A summary of the spirited discussion regarding the fine-grained 
access control offered by Sourcecast and how it applies to the 
NetBeans world was provided by Robert Greig.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=81853&listName=nbdiscuss


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nb-dev traffic
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The Clazz module is being modified to incorporate the new class 
file reader module developed by Thomas Ball.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=81252&listName=nbdev


David Li is looking for interested developers to work on a SQL module 
for NB based upon iSQLViewer. He is also considering adding an 
Object-Relation tool such as Castor.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=110616&listName=nbdev


We already have preliminary support for the Java Generic Types 
as proposed by JSR-14 !!! Download the dev build and try it out.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=81255&listName=nbdev 


David Jones proposed a new module that generates code based on 
entity definitions from an XML file.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=95296&listName=nbdev


Jon Seanor suggested an enhancement to NB to provide a Task List of 
things to be done, that could be attached to each source file.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=110542&listName=nbdev


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api traffic
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Read a discussion of the proposal to create a new Proxy class in 
the util package to reduce the number of classes loaded and the 
memory footprint.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=23392&listName=dev


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