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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #207 - Aug 16, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #207 - Aug 16, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-08-16.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-08-16.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>FIRST FEATURE OVERVIEW OF NETBEANS IDE 5.0 POSTED! |
| Have you been curious about the upcoming features in NetBeans 5.0? Take a look at the |
| overview on NetBeans.org. This upcoming release is scheduled for mid-December 2005. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=3">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=3</a>> |
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| NetBeans Profiler Milestone 8 Released |
| The NetBeans Profiler team has announced the availability of the Profiler Milestone 8 |
| release for NetBeans 4.1. To download or get more information visit: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=4">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=4</a>>. |
| What's New in the Milestone 8 Release? |
| * Improved profiling for J2EE applications and Applets |
| * Better support for Sun Java Application Server |
| * Ability to take results snapshot before the profiled application exits |
| * Improved navigation in profiling results, searching in Call trees |
| * Profiling JUnit tests |
| * (As always) Large number of bugfixes |
| Complete list of new features, enhancements and bugfixes can be found at: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=5">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=5</a>> |
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| Beta version of the new NetBeans CVS Support now available in development builds! |
| The NetBeans team is proud to announce a Beta version of the new redesigned CVS |
| support, an innovative approach to integration of a Version Control System (VCS) into |
| the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new module provides a |
| simple, efficient IDE versioning workflow and intelligent support for common |
| versioning operations. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=6">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=6</a>> |
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| NetBeans Governance Board Elections: Polling Begins |
| The NetBeans Governance Board nomination period has closed and this is the final list |
| of people who were nominated: Vincent Brabant, Leon Chiver, David Strupl and Rich |
| Unger. The voting period closes on August 25, midnight in the last timezone. Rules are |
| the same: You can vote for *up to* 3 candidates; You can only vote once; You need to |
| be logged in to NetBeans.org to vote. The voting results and the new board will be |
| announced after the voting closes, on August 26. To cast your VOTE, please go to the |
| NetBeans polling page. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=7">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=7</a>> |
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| Q-Build 200508021800 Promoted |
| What's new in this Q-Build? Safe delete refactoring, Java Hints and breakpoint |
| properties can be accessed from editor annotations. Full details: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=10">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=10</a>> |
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| Q-Build 050808 of Mobility Pack |
| What's new in this Q-Build? Visual Mobile Designer: |
| * Palette and Inspector are moved. There is more space for designer area |
| * Press of CTRL in Flow design switch to mode when you can redesign layout of |
| transitions and ports |
| * Algorithm for transition path was improved |
| * Properties names with non default values are in bold |
| Preprocessor |
| * Code completion for preprocessor block (type //# to start preprocessor block) |
| * Context menu for preprocessor actions is back |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=11">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=11</a>> |
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| Drag-and-Drop JSP and HTML Code Snippets in NetBeans IDE |
| Your life as a web developer just got much much easier. How often have you had a JSP or |
| an HTML open in the Source Editor and thought to yourself: "Now I wonder how to create a |
| 'form'. And what tags do I need to do a 'forEach' or a 'choose' in JSTL?" Check out |
| Geertjan's blog entry for the reason why you will never be asking yourself these |
| questions again. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=12">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=12</a>> |
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| Meven 0.8 for NetBeans |
| The mevenide team has announced the Mevenide NetBeans project support 0.8 release. |
| New Features include: |
| * Dependencies now visible and editable in Project View. Add/Edit/Remove dependency |
| actions easily accessible from project explorer. One can download the missing |
| dependencies, download/view it's javadoc etc. See a descriptive screenshot |
| * MEVENIDE-165 - allow user to check the remote repositories for javadocs and sources |
| of project's dependencies. |
| * Added the default NetBeans IDE webapp/j2ee deployment. Allows deploying and |
| debugging on IDE-supported servers. |
| * Access pom and property files from the project view. |
| * Multiple bugs fixed as usual. |
| <<a href="http://mevenide.codehaus.org/mevenide-netbeans-project/">http://mevenide.codehaus.org/mevenide-netbeans-project/</a>> |
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| yWorks Ant Explorer |
| Visualizes Ant build scripts inside NetBeans. Both Targets and their dependencies |
| and properties and their dependencies can be explored visually. Also provides means |
| to animate the execution of Ant scripts. Helps in understanding and debugging complex |
| Ant scripts. |
| <<a href="http://www.yworks.com/en/products_antexplorer_about.htm">http://www.yworks.com/en/products_antexplorer_about.htm</a>> |
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| Roman Records A NetBeans Song |
| Looking for music that is outside the mainstream? Be sure to stop by Roman's blog and |
| download his latest smash hit with the lyrics to follow along. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=13">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=13</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
| The next editor will be Robert Demmer. (New volunteers are welcome!)<br> |
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