Issue #40 - November 5, 2001

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In last week's newsletter Pavel could announce NetBeans 3.3 beta1.
Today I can announce beta3. The reason why we produced two betas
in one week is that there were no serious bugs in last Friday's build
and our release coordinator Petr Hamernik could immediatelly promote it.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=183291&listName=nbannounce

Together with finishing release 3.3, also other modules that are not
part of the daily build process are getting more stable and are 
being offered for testing.
CORBA:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=181243&listName=nbusers
XML:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=183296&listName=nbusers

A tutorial about development for NetBeans and Forte has been published
on Sun's developers site. Here is Oye's mail announcing that
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=181265&listName=dev
and here is the link to the site
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/forte4j3/

Trung send a short, but very nice message saying Big Thank you to all
people who tried our beta and reported bugs. Thank you for doing so,
our joined effords will result in better quality.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=181153&listName=nbdev

In order to unnoticably move from release part of the newsletter
to the discussion one, I am adding a link to the Evan's philosophical
reply to Riyad's question about releases which touches both topics.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=181332&listName=nbdev

There was one general Java topic on nbdev@ that seems to be
outstandingly
interesting. Discussion whether there is a bug in javac, borland's
compiler or Java Language Specification. Access the discussion at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbdev&by=thread&from=8150

UI folks were solving issue of communicating uneditable nature of
string property editor to the user. Wanna add your opinion or improve
your UI design skills? Start at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbui&by=thread&from=8133

And a tip at the end - do you want to use Autoupdate module without
starting NetBeans? Yes, it is possible, Autoupdate wizard that starts in
few seconds and let you update any application over the net. You can dig
inspiration in following thread
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&by=thread&from=8122




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