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Re: Woodstock design-time dependencies on NetBeans VWP

From: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:55:03 -0800

Jayashri Visvanathan wrote:
>
>
> Gregory Murphy wrote:
>
[...]
>>
>> 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 ?

This has no impact on projects, or the importing of projects. This
concerns only design-time code, which is never copied into a user's
project. Even if we have to make radical changes to the design-time code
in the Woodstock trunk, a current NB 5.5 project should still be
importable into NB 6.0.

// Gregory