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| = Where is `TopManager`? I'm trying to do the examples from the O'Reilly book |
| :page-layout: wikidev |
| :page-tags: wiki, devfaq, needsreview |
| :jbake-status: published |
| :keywords: Apache NetBeans wiki DevFaqTopManager |
| :description: Apache NetBeans wiki DevFaqTopManager |
| :toc: left |
| :toc-title: |
| :page-syntax: true |
| :page-wikidevsection: _development_issues_module_basics_and_classpath_issues_and_information_about_rcpplatform_application_configuration |
| :page-position: 22 |
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| The O'Reilly book is old (written between 2001 and 2002) - the chapters on architectural background will still work, but many of the examples won't. |
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| The generation of NB it was written for is from before Lookup (see xref:./DevFaqLookup.adoc[DevFaqLookup]) was in use. `TopManager` was a class with a bunch of static methods for getting service objects. |
| It is now gone. |
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| For pretty much everything available via `TopManager`, simply take the class you were looking for and try `SomeClass.getDefault()` - that's typically the modern way to do this sort of thing. `TopManager` caused a tangle of interdependencies between different APIs that it was very desirable to remove. |
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| If you were calling `TopManager.getDefault().getPlaces().nodes().projectDesktop()` in a NetBeans 3.x based application, there is no direct equivalent in NB 4.0 and later. Rather, there is a rich set of project-related APIs which can be used for various purposes. As a rule, there is no 1-to-1 conversion from the above idiom to NB 4.0+; the affected O'Reilly examples would need to be rewritten to make sense today. |
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| Applies to: NetBeans 4.0+ |
