New plugin/module: Authenticator

I've just released an alternative Authenticator for use with NetBeans
Plaform applications.

https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansnetworkauthenticator


On the above page you can read why this is relevant for NetBeans
Platform applications.


If you don't know what an Authenticator is:   It is a Java SE thingy
that gets invoked when some network task is in need of credentials.
NetBeans Platform provides its own implementation but it is
unfortunately way too simplistic to make sense in use in the real
applications. More on this in the README.


Enjoy.


Peter


(I haven't yet released it as a plugin, for now it is merely a module
that app developers can clone. It some ways it would probably make
more sense releasing stuff like this to Maven Central rather than to
plugins.netbeans.org)