Changes for Module developers

"Manfred Riem" <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:17:46 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.webteam
Organization Manor 'n Rock
Message-ID <010601c5fe6e$6cd73cf0$03fea8c0@legolas> 
Hi there,

Attached is a HTML describing the changes I have compiled so
far from replies from the NetBeans developers. I don't have
the time currently to get the rest of the modules done, feel
free to pickup on it.

Kind regards,
Manfred
changes.html (text/html, 1.7 KB) 
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Changes</title>
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#ffffff">

  <b>a11y</b>
  <blockquote>
   No changes.
  </blockquote>

  <b>ant</b>
  <blockquote>
   The Ant module in 5.0 has Navigator integration. Settings moved 
   to the new Options dialog. "Always Show Output" option added, 
   default on. And some bugfixes.
  </blockquote>

  <b>apisupport</b>
  <blockquote>
   Module development tools were unsupported in NetBeans 4.1. As of 5.0 they 
   are a major and newly supported component of the regular IDE download. The 
   changes in apisupport are extensive and too numerous to summarize.
  </blockquote>

  <b>beans</b>
  <blockquote>
   No major changes betweeen 4.1 and 5.0
  </blockquote>

  <b>classfile</b>
  <blockquote>
   The classfile module has been enhanced to support the new Java 5 generics,
   annotations, variable arguments, and enums. 
  </blockquote>

  <b>clazz</b>
  <blockquote>
   No major changes between 4.1 and 5.0.
  </blockquote>

  <b>collab</b>
  <blockquote>
   Since 5.0 shipped as part of the IDE. For the rest mostly cosmetic, internal 
   structural changes and bugfixes.
  </blockquote>

  <b>contrib</b>
  <blockquote>
   The contrib/* modules are never in the IDE distribution so information
   about changes between IDE releases is not tracked!
  </blockquote>

  <b>cpp</b>
  <blockquote>
   Changes have been done outside of the NetBeans group. Uncertain if module
   still builds for 5.0.
  </blockquote>

  <b>externaleditor</b>
  <blockquote>
   No changes worth mentioning. Major changes are planned for after 5.0.
  </blockquote>

  <b>extbrowser</b>
  <blockquote>
   No significant user visible changes.
  </blockquote>

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