Re: NetBeans: No longer working backwards?

On 27-4-2011 16:18, Tom Wheeler wrote:
> Excellent -- I am really happy to see that!  It sounds like many of
> the features will be very useful for the platform as well as the IDE.
> Thanks for posting it, Geertjan.
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> Does "support for multiview components" mean that the Multiview API no
> longer be marked as "under development?"  I had some comments in this
> issue (starting on 2009-06-26) which point out a few simple ways I
> thought the Multiview API could be improved (and only now do I realize
> that the issue for for XML Multiview specifically, not Multiview API
> in general):
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>    http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107858
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I believe this new one will replace all other ones -- you'll be able to 
continue using the others (e.g., the TreeTableView/OutlineView 
situation) but the one where development will be focused on is the new 
Multiview API (which will probably also have annotation support, of course).

Gj

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Geertjan Wielenga
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Now that 7.0 is released and work on 7.1 is starting, I want to ask if
>> others on the NetBeans team also believe in the "Working Backwards"
>> approach.  Is someone going from the NetBeans team going to write a
>> press release in the style Jarda describes in his book.  If not, why
>> not?
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>> http://wiki.netbeans.org/WinSys71PressRelease
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>> Gj
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