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<!-- Question: arch-what
<question id="arch-what">
What is this project good for?
<hint>
Please provide here few lines describing the the project,
what problem it should solve, provide links to documentation,
specifications, etc.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-what">
The <api
name="EditorAPI" type="export" category="official"
url="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/doc-files/api.html"
group="java" /> is used for accessing editor-related functionality from within the IDE
for use by other modules and the core IDE itself.
</answer>
<!-- Question: compat-i18n
<question id="compat-i18n">
Is your module correctly internationalized?
<hint>
Correct internationalization means that it obeys instuctions
at <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/i18n/index.html">
NetBeans I18N pages</a>.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="compat-i18n">
Yes.
</answer>
<!-- Question: compat-standards
<question id="compat-standards">
Does the module implements or defines any standards? Is the
implementation exact or it deviates somehow?
</question>
-->
<answer id="compat-standards">
The module uses <a href="@JDK@/javax/swing/text/package-summary.html">Swing text package</a>.
It extends it in <a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.html">NbDocument</a> class which adds
support for:
<ul>
<li><a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.WriteLockable.html">locking document for complex modifications</a></li>
<li><a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.Printable.html">styled text printing</a></li>
<li><a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.PositionBiasable.html">holding and working with biased positions</a></li>
<li><a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.CustomEditor.html">adding of special UI components to their Editor pane</a></li>
<li><a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.Annotatable.html">annotations</a></li>
</ul>
</answer>
<!-- Question: compat-version
<question id="compat-version">
Does your module properly coexists with earlier and future
versions? Can you correctly read settings? Will future
versions be able to read settings?
<hint>
Very helpful for reading settings is to store version number
there, so future versions can decide whether how to read/convert
the settings and older versions can ignore the new ones.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="compat-version">
Module uses serialization. It coexists with the earlier versions, but
not with future ones. The future versions will be able to read settings.
</answer>
<!-- Question: dep-jre
<question id="dep-jre">
Which version of JRE you need (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, etc.)?
<hint>
It is expected that if your module runs on 1.x that it will run
on 1.x+1 if no, state that please. Also describe here cases where
you run different code on different versions of JRE and why.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="dep-jre">
JRE 1.3
</answer>
<!-- Question: dep-jrejdk
<question id="dep-jrejdk">
Do you require JDK or is JRE enough?
</question>
-->
<answer id="dep-jrejdk">
JRE
</answer>
<!-- Question: dep-nb
<question id="dep-nb">
What other NetBeans projects this one depends on?
<hint>
If you want, describe such projects as imported API using
the <code>&lt;api name="identification" type="import or export" category="stable" url="where is the description" /&gt;</code>
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="dep-nb">
Module uses following API's:
<ul>
<li>
<api
name="NodesAPI"
group="java"
type="import"
category="official"
url="@org-openide-nodes@/org/openide/nodes/doc-files/api.html"
/>
</li>
<li>
<api
name="UtilitiesAPI"
group="java"
type="import"
category="official"
url="@org-openide-util@/org/openide/util/doc-files/api.html"
/>
</li>
<li>
<api
name="SettingsAPI"
group="java"
type="import"
category="official"
url="@org-openide-options@/org/openide/options/doc-files/api.html"
/>
</li>
<li>
<api
name="WindowSystemAPI"
group="java"
type="import"
category="official"
url="@org-openide-windows@/org/openide/windows/doc-files/api.html"
/>
</li>
</ul>
</answer>
<!-- Question: dep-non-nb
<question id="dep-non-nb">
What other non-NetBeans projects this one depends on?
<hint>
Some non-NetBeans projects are packaged as NetBeans modules
(see <a href="http://libs.netbeans.org">libraries</a>) and
it is prefered to use this approach when more modules may
depend on such third-party library.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="dep-non-nb">
Apart from <a href="@JDK@/javax/swing/text/package-summary.html">javax.swing.text</a> none.
</answer>
<!-- Question: dep-platform
<question id="dep-platform">
On which platforms your module run? Any? Does it run in the same
way?
<hint>
If your module is using JNI or deals with special differences of
OSes like filesystems, etc. please describe here what they are.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="dep-platform">
Any platform. Runs the same way.
</answer>
<!-- Question: deploy-jar
<question id="deploy-jar">
Do you deploy just module JAR file(s) or some other files?
<hint>
If your module consist just from one module JAR file, just confirm that.
If it uses more than one JAR, describe where there are located, how
they refer to each other.
If it consist of module JAR(s) and other files, please describe
what is their purpose, why other files are necessary. Please
make sure that installation/deinstallation leaves the system
in state as it was before installation.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="deploy-jar">
Classes belonging to this module do not reside in standalone library.
They are bundled together with other parts of the openide in openide.jar.
</answer>
<!-- Question: deploy-nbm
<question id="deploy-nbm">
Can you deploy NBM via AutoUpdate center?
<hint>
If not why?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="deploy-nbm">
Module does not have its own NBM.
</answer>
<!-- Question: deploy-packages
<question id="deploy-packages">
Are packages of your module made inaccessible by not declaring them
public?
<hint>
NetBeans module system allows restriction of access rights to
public classes of your module from other modules. This prevents
unwanted dependencies of others on your code and should be used
whenever possible (<a href="http://www.netbeans.org/download/apis/org/openide/doc-files/upgrade.html#3.4-public-packages">
public packages
</a>).
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="deploy-packages">
No, but it is not necessary. The module has just one public package.
</answer>
<!-- Question: deploy-shared
<question id="deploy-shared">
Do you need to be installed in shared location or only in user directory?
<hint>
Installation location shall not matter, if it does explain why.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="deploy-shared">
Module does not have its own jar.
</answer>
<!-- Question: exec-classloader
<question id="exec-classloader">
Does your code uses own classloader?
<hint>
A bit unusual. Please explain why and what for.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-classloader">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: exec-component
<question id="exec-component">
Is execution of your code influenced by (string) property
of any of your components?
<hint>
Often <code>JComponent.getClientProperty</code>, <code>Action.getValue</code>
or <code>PropertyDescriptor.getValue</code>, etc. are used to influence
a behaviour of some code. This of course forms an interface that should
be documented. Also if one depends on some interface that an object
implements (<code>component instanceof Runnable</code>) that forms an
API as well.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-component">
The module can be influencend by this property:
<api type="export" group="property" name="indentEngine" category="stable" >
Property hold instance of <a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/IndentEngine.html">IndentEngine</a>
and this indentation engine is used instead of system one.
</api>
It set these Swing properties:
<api type="import" group="property" name="javax.swing.text.Document.StreamDescriptionProperty" category="stable" >
Property hold instance of <a href="@org-openide-loaders@/org/openide/loaders/DataObject.html">DataObject</a>
from which the document was created. This property can be used by the modules and is part of the Editor API.
</api>
<api type="import" group="property" name="javax.swing.text.Document.TitleProperty" category="stable" >
Property hold instance of String with name of the file being edited.
This property can be used by the modules and is part of the Editor API.
</api>
<api type="export" group="property" name="javax.swing.text.Document.modificationListener" category="friend" >
In order to fix <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51872">issue 51872</a> the
openide needs a way how to be notified about change of a document outside of its Document lock.
<code>DocumentListener</code>s are always notified under the lock, so a special contract has
been established (since version 5.3) by registering an instance of <code>VetoableListener</code>
by calling <code>putProperty ("modificationListener", listener)</code>. The
NetBeans aware documents are adviced to honor this property and call the listener
outside of the document lock when a modification is made. The actual contract
of the call can be seen in
<a href="http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/openide/test/unit/src/org/openide/text/NbLikeEditorKit.java">NbLikeEditorKit.java</a>
in methods
<code>insertString</code> and <code>remove</code>.
</api>
<api type="export" group="property" name="beforeSaveRunnable" category="friend" >
Document property that allows to execute a runnable before save of a document is performed.
For example an extra whitespace accumulated during typing can be removed by exploiting this property.
</api>
<api type="export" group="property" name="expectedTime" category="friend" >
<a href="@TOP@/org/openide/text/CloneableEditorSupport.html">CloneableEditorSupport</a>
understands not only its <code>Env.TIME</code> property, but also special
"expectedTime". When this one arrives, it means refresh its internal
last saved time, but without any refresh. This functionality is used from
<code>DataEditorSupport</code> when the DataObject is moved to new location
and we need to adjust the time to the new file object.
</api>
<api type="export" group="property" name="usedByCloneableEditor" category="friend" >
Component client property which is set to Boolean.TRUE if an editor pane is actively used by a cloneable editor.
Once the component gets closed the CloneableEditor sets the property to Boolean.FALSE.
</api>
</answer>
<!-- Question: exec-privateaccess
<question id="exec-privateaccess">
Are you aware of any other part of the system calling some of
your methods by reflection?
<hint>
If so, describe the "contract" as an API. Likely private or friend one, but
still API and consider rewrite of it.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-privateaccess">
<api name="EditorKitInitialization" category="friend" group="java" type="export">
In order to speedup, or remove the load of initialization of kit in AWT during startup,
there is a special API that allows to ask the kit to pre-initialize. If the kit
implements <code>Callable</code> interface from JDK, it is called in non-AWT thread.
This works since version 6.18 and can be disabled by property <code>oldInitialization</code>.
</api>
</answer>
<answer id="exec-property">
<api name="oldInitialization" category="devel" group="property" type="export">
As the speedup of startup done in version 6.18 is not fully compatible,
there is a way to get back the original behaviour: just use
<code>this.putClientProperty("oldInitialization", Boolean.TRUE)</code>
and the whole initialization will be done in AWT thread. This is generally
slower, but compatible.
</api>
<api name="org.openide.text.CloneableEditor.oldInitialization" category="private" group="property" type="export">
In order to measure startup improvements between AWT and non-AWT startup,
we have a property dedicated to testing that can switch all editors to be
opened in AWT. Just start NetBeans with
<code>-J-Dorg.openide.text.CloneableEditor.oldInitialization=true</code>.
This property may be discontiued anytime.
</api>
</answer>
<!-- Question: exec-reflection
<question id="exec-reflection">
Does your code uses java.lang.reflect to execute some other code?
<hint>
This usually indicates a missing or unsufficient API in the other
part of the system. If the other side is not aware of your dependency
this contract can be easily broken.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-reflection">
Yes, it calls protected method <a href="@org-openide-loaders@/org/openide/loaders/MultiDataObject.html#getCookieSet--">MultiDataObject.getCookieSet()</a>.
The class which calls this is deprecated, but it is still in use by clients.
<p/>
Another reflection is used in QuietEditorPane, where DelegatingTransferHandler delegates
also on two protected methods of TransferHandler: <code>createTransferable</code> and
<code>exportDone</code>. This delegation is needed because of drag and drop feature described
in <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53439">issue #53439</a>
</answer>
<!-- Question: format-clipboard
<question id="format-clipboard">
Which protocols your code reads/inserts when communicating with
clipboard?
</question>
-->
<answer id="format-clipboard">
None.
</answer>
<!-- Question: format-dnd
<question id="format-dnd">
Which protocols your code understands during drag-n-drop?
</question>
-->
<answer id="format-dnd">
None.
</answer>
<!-- Question: format-types
<question id="format-types">
Which file formats your code reads or writes on disk?
</question>
-->
<answer id="format-types">
None.
</answer>
<!-- Question: lookup-lookup
<question id="lookup-lookup">
Does your module uses <code>org.openide.util.Lookup</code>
to find any components to communicate to? Which ones?
<hint>
Please describe the interfaces you are searching for, where
are defined, whether you are searching for just one or more of them,
if the order is important, etc. Also clasify the stability of such
API contract.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="lookup-lookup">
Yes, it looks for <a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/IndentEngine.html">IndentEngine</a> service type class. This class is defined in
this module. The first one indentation engine found for the given MIME is returned.
Others are ignored.
</answer>
<!-- Question: lookup-register
<question id="lookup-register">
Do you register anything into the lookup for other to find?
<hint>
Do you register using layer file or using <code>META-INF/services</code>?
Who is supposed to find your component?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="lookup-register">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: lookup-remove
<question id="lookup-remove">
Are removing entries of other modules from the lookup?
<hint>
Why? Of course, that is possible, but it can be dangerous. Is the module
your are masking resource from aware of what you are doing?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="lookup-remove">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-exit
<question id="perf-exit">
Does your module executes anything on exit?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-exit">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-huge_dialogs
<question id="perf-huge_dialogs">
Does your module contain any dialogs or wizards with huge
amount of GUI controls like combo boxes, lists, trees, text
areas?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-huge_dialogs">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-limit
<question id="perf-limit">
Are there any limits in number/size of elements your code
can handle?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-limit">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-mem
<question id="perf-mem">
What is the amount of memory your component occupies? Estimate
with a relaction to the number of windows, etc.
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-mem">
Unknown.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-menus
<question id="perf-menus">
Does your module use dynamically changing context menus or
context sensitive actions with complicated logic for enable/disable?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-menus">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-progress
<question id="perf-progress">
Does your module executes some long running task?
<hint>Typically they are tasks like connecting over
network, computing huge amount of data, compilation.
Such communication should be done asynchronously (for example
using <code>RequestProcessor</code>), definitively it should
not block AWT thread.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-progress">
Opening of document. It is done in <a href="@org-openide-util@/org/openide/util/RequestProcessor.html">RequestProcessor</a>.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-scale
<question id="perf-scale">
Which external criteria influence the performance of your
program (size of file in editor, number of files in menu,
in source directory, etc.) and how well your code scales?
Please include some estimates.
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-scale">
Size of file which is going to be open.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-startup
<question id="perf-startup">
Does your module executes anything on startup?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-startup">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: perf-wakeup
<question id="perf-wakeup">
Is any piece of your code waking up periodically?
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-wakeup">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: resources-file
<question id="resources-file">
Does your module use <code>java.io.File</code> directly?
<hint>
NetBeans provide a logical wrapper over plain files called
<code>org.openide.filesystems.FileObject</code> that
provides uniform access to such resources and is the prefered
way that should be used. But of course there can be situations when
this is not suitable.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="resources-file">
Yes, for showing absolute filename path in the tooltip.
</answer>
<!-- Question: resources-layer
<question id="resources-layer">
Does your module provide own layer? Does it create some files or
folders on it? What it is trying to communicate by that and with which
component?
<hint>
NetBeans allows automatic and declarative installation of resources
by module layers. Module register files into appropriate places
and other components use that information to perform their task
(build menu, toolbar, window layout, list of templates, set of
options, etc.).
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="resources-layer">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: resources-mask
<question id="resources-mask">
Does your module mask/hide/override any resource provided by another one in
module layer?
<hint>
If you mask a file provided by another module, you probably depend
on that and do not want the other module to (for example) change
the file's name. That module shall thus make that file available as an API
of some stability category.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="resources-mask">
No.
</answer>
<!-- Question: resources-read
<question id="resources-read">
Does your module read any resources from layers? For what purpose?
<hint>
As this is some kind of intermodule dependency, it is a kind of API.
Please describe it and clasify according to
<a href="http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html#categories">
common stability categories</a>.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="resources-read">
<api type="export" category="devel" group="layer" name="Editors-TabActions">
Actions for the editor tab (window) context menu can be injected into <code>Editors/TabActions</code>.
</api>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="exec-introspection">
Does your module use any kind of runtime type informations (instanceof,
work with java.lang.Class, etc.)?
<hint>
Check for cases when you have an object of type A and you also
expect it to (possibly) be of type B and do some special action. That
should be documented. The same applies on operations in meta-level
(Class.isInstance(...), Class.isAssignableFrom(...), etc.).
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-introspection">
The Editor module operate with plain Swing <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/javax/swing/text/Document.html">Document</a> in
its APIs and checks whether the document does not implement some of the Netbeans extensions defined in
<a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/NbDocument.html">NbDocument</a>.
It also tries to retype <a href="@org-openide-windows@/org/openide/windows/CloneableTopComponent.Ref.html#getComponents--">CloneableTopComponent.Ref.getComponents()</a>
to its <a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/CloneableEditor.html">CloneableEditor</a>. If some document does not implement
<a href="@JDK@/javax/swing/text/StyledDocument.html">StyledDocument</a>,
it is wrapped into <a href="@org-openide-text@/org/openide/text/FilterDocument.html">FilterDocument</a> which implements limited StyledDocument functionality.
</answer>
<!--
<question id="exec-process">
Do you execute an external process from your module? How do you ensure
that the result is the same on different platforms? Do you parse output?
Do you depend on result code?
<hint>
If you feed an input, parse the output please declare that as an API.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-process">
No.
</answer>
<!--
<question id="arch-overall" when="init">
Describe the overall architecture.
<hint>
What will be API for
<a href="http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html#design.apiandspi" shape="rect">
clients and what support API</a>?
What parts will be pluggable?
How will plug-ins be registered? Please use <code>&lt;api type="export"/&gt;</code>
to describe your general APIs and specify their
<a href="http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html#category-private" shape="rect">
stability categories</a>.
If possible please provide simple diagrams.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-overall">
<p>
XXX no answer for arch-overall
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="arch-quality" when="init">
How will the <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/community/guidelines/q-evangelism.html" shape="rect">quality</a>
of your code be tested and
how are future regressions going to be prevented?
<hint>
What kind of testing do
you want to use? How much functionality, in which areas,
should be covered by the tests? How you find out that your
project was successful?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-quality">
<p>
XXX no answer for arch-quality
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="arch-time" when="init">
What are the time estimates of the work?
<hint>
Please express your estimates of how long the design, implementation,
stabilization are likely to last. How many people will be needed to
implement this and what is the expected milestone by which the work should be
ready?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-time">
<p>
XXX no answer for arch-time
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="arch-usecases" when="init">
<hint>
Content of this answer will be displayed as part of page at
http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/usecases.html
You can use tags &lt;usecase name="name&gt; regular html description &lt;/usecase&gt;
and if you want to use an URL you can prefix if with @TOP@ to begin
at the root of your javadoc
</hint>
Describe the main <a href="http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html#usecase" shape="rect">
use cases</a> of the new API. Who will use it under
what circumstances? What kind of code would typically need to be written
to use the module?
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-usecases">
<p>
XXX no answer for arch-usecases
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="arch-where" when="impl">
Where one can find sources for your module?
<hint>
Please provide link to the Hg web client at
http://hg.netbeans.org/
or just use tag defaultanswer generate='here'
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="arch-where">
<defaultanswer generate='here' />
</answer>
<!--
<question id="compat-deprecation" when="init">
How the introduction of your project influences functionality
provided by previous version of the product?
<hint>
If you are planning to deprecate/remove/change any existing APIs,
list them here accompanied with the reason explaining why you
are doing so.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="compat-deprecation">
<p>
XXX no answer for compat-deprecation
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="deploy-dependencies" when="final">
What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one,
in addition to or instead of the normal module dependency declaration
(e.g. tokens to require)?
<hint>
Provide a sample of the actual lines you would add to a module manifest
to declare a dependency, for example OpenIDE-Module-Requires: some.token.
If other modules should not depend on this module, or should just use a
simple regular module dependency, you can just answer "nothing". If you
intentionally expose a semistable API to clients using implementation
dependencies, you should mention that here (but there is no need to give
an example of usage).
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="deploy-dependencies">
<p>
XXX no answer for deploy-dependencies
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="exec-ant-tasks" when="impl">
Do you define or register any ant tasks that other can use?
<hint>
If you provide an ant task that users can use, you need to be very
careful about its syntax and behaviour, as it most likely forms an
API for end users and as there is a lot of end users, their reaction
when such API gets broken can be pretty strong.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-ant-tasks">
<p>
XXX no answer for exec-ant-tasks
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="exec-threading" when="init">
What threading models, if any, does your module adhere to? How the
project behaves with respect to threading?
<hint>
Is your API threadsafe? Can it be accessed from any threads or
just from some dedicated ones? Any special relation to AWT and
its Event Dispatch thread? Also
if your module calls foreign APIs which have a specific threading model,
indicate how you comply with the requirements for multithreaded access
(synchronization, mutexes, etc.) applicable to those APIs.
If your module defines any APIs, or has complex internal structures
that might be used from multiple threads, declare how you protect
data against concurrent access, race conditions, deadlocks, etc.,
and whether such rules are enforced by runtime warnings, errors, assertions, etc.
Examples: a class might be non-thread-safe (like Java Collections); might
be fully thread-safe (internal locking); might require access through a mutex
(and may or may not automatically acquire that mutex on behalf of a client method);
might be able to run only in the event queue; etc.
Also describe when any events are fired: synchronously, asynchronously, etc.
Ideas: <a href="http://core.netbeans.org/proposals/threading/index.html#recommendations" shape="rect">Threading Recommendations</a> (in progress)
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="exec-threading">
<p>
XXX no answer for exec-threading
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="perf-spi" when="init">
How the performance of the plugged in code will be enforced?
<hint>
If you allow foreign code to be plugged into your own module, how
do you enforce that it will behave correctly and quickly and will not
negatively influence the performance of your own module?
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="perf-spi">
<p>
XXX no answer for perf-spi
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="resources-preferences" when="final">
Does your module uses preferences via Preferences API? Does your module use NbPreferences or
or regular JDK Preferences ? Does it read, write or both ?
Does it share preferences with other modules ? If so, then why ?
<hint>
You may use
&lt;api type="export" group="preferences"
name="preference node name" category="private"&gt;
description of individual keys, where it is used, what it
influences, whether the module reads/write it, etc.
&lt;/api&gt;
Due to XML ID restrictions, rather than /org/netbeans/modules/foo give the "name" as org.netbeans.modules.foo.
Note that if you use NbPreferences this name will then be the same as the code name base of the module.
</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="resources-preferences">
<p>
XXX no answer for resources-preferences
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="security-grant" when="final">
Does your code grant additional rights to some other code?
<hint>Avoid using a class loader that adds extra
permissions to loaded code unless really necessary.
Also note that your API implementation
can also expose unneeded permissions to enemy code by
calling AccessController.doPrivileged().</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="security-grant">
<p>
XXX no answer for security-grant
</p>
</answer>
<!--
<question id="security-policy" when="final">
Does your functionality require modifications to the standard policy file?
<hint>Your code might pass control to third-party code not
coming from trusted domains. This could be code downloaded over the
network or code coming from libraries that are not bundled
with NetBeans. Which permissions need to be granted to which domains?</hint>
</question>
-->
<answer id="security-policy">
<p>
XXX no answer for security-policy
</p>
</answer>
</api-answers>