As I wrote in previous mail, I have been working on extracting a public
API of property editors and some helper classes so that the Woodstock
components will continue to benefit from full support in the Visual Web
Pack plug-in for the next major release of NetBeans, 6.0.
I have made a few minor changes to the Woodstock design-time code
already, but nothing that changes compatibility with NetBeans 5.5.
However, the next set of changes, which are required so that the
data-provider design-time UI panels can still be referenced from
Woodstock, will _break_ compatibility with NB 5.5. Speak now, or
forever hold your peace! ;-)
The good news: as part of the changes, we can remove the org.openide
libraries, as they will no longer be needed. At that point, the
Woodstock build will no longer have any dependencies at all on NetBeans
modules.
// Gregory