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Re: Upcoming changes to design-time

From: Jayashri Visvanathan <Jayashri.Visvanathan_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:28:25 -0800

Gregory,
 Thanks for the heads up. Please send a change bundle out before you
check in so that people have a chance review the diffs and voice their
concerns if any.
-Jayashri

Gregory Murphy wrote:

> 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