NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #34

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Issue #34 - September 24, 2001
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**Contributions**

Wayne Adams contributed Open API tutorial. Thank you and BEA.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157134&listName=contrib

Wanna see structure of .ser file? Use clazz module improved by Jesse.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=158984&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15827

**Actions**

In reaction to Evan's proposal of a NetBeans Architecture Council,
we have setuped a list to notify everyone of API changes. Watch
them and make your first step to become the Council member.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=156871&listName=dev

Watch out latest changes in filesystems that enhanced the possibility
to identify your own modification to filesystem from ones made by
somebody else.
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159137&listName=dev

And now it is for sure. We are really working on opensource project
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=158468&listName=nbusers

But please do not put files without SPL licence into CVS. Here is the
simplest way to check
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159076&listName=nbdev

**Discussions**

Most of people seems to get used to line numbers turned off.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157247&listName=nbui
in spite of that some of us are still not able to recognize
the possitive effect of the change and continue to complain
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=159117&listName=nbui

Honza Chalupa steped out and asked whether we care about our users
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=156154&listName=nbdev
a mail that was said but true. Then Trung explained his opinion
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157258&listName=nbdev
which improved our (or at least Dafe's) hope again
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157316&listName=nbdev

Does your build fail when extra binaries have changed? Mike suggested
a nice solution to improve the up-to-date check. Anybody to
implement it?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157795&listName=nbdev

**Tips**

Debugging NetBeans in NetBeans? Here are few tips:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=155948&listName=nbdev

Having problems with deserialition of objects in JDK1.4? You could
have the same problem as Svata
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157611&listName=nbdev
which in Mike's opinion is JDK1.4 bug
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=157801&listName=nbdev

**People**

Remember that George's interviews continue and will introduce Marko
Boger (Posseidon/ArgoUML) today.
http://www.netbeans.org/articles/interviews/index.html

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