Gregory Murphy wrote:
> There is design-time code in the Woodstock project that will no longer
> work in NB 6.0. The code provides support for binding to data
> providers. In order to provide design-time support for binding
> components like Listbox to data providers, special UI panels are
> referenced as part of the configuration of the "bind to data" context
> menu action (vd.
> "com.sun.rave.propertyeditors.binding.DataBindingHelper"). These
> panels are part of a VWP module, and like all such modules, they are
> being refactored as part of the move to open source. Classes that
> hitherto began
>
> com.sun.rave
>
> will begin, as of NB 6.0 milestone 8,
>
> org.netbeans.modules.visualweb
>
> Most third-party component libraries will not be affected by this
> change, because I have split what once was a single module
> (propertyeditors) into a module and a public library. The library will
> preserve the "com.sun.rave" package names, and will be linked to
> implementations in the module via a service provider look-up.
>
> The library includes almost all property editors, but it cannot
> include the afore mentioned data provider UI panels, because these
> classes have numerous dependencies on other NB modules. They are part
> of the IDE, not the component set.
>
> What to do? The key question, it seems to me, is whether we are
> willing to introduce into Woodstock a dependency on specific versions
> of VWP. If we are, then an easy solution would be to refactor all
> references to the UI panels in the Woodstock trunk. At that point, the
> Woodstock trunk would work _only_ in NB 6.0. Branches slated for prior
> releases (e.g. 5.5.1) could be left alone, so that they work only in
> versions of NB prior to 6.0.
>
>
I am concerned about this case. does this mean we cannot import VWP 5.5
projects (based on Java EE 5) into NB 6 ?
Thanks
-Jayashri