I just took out some time for the regular expressions module and uploaded it's sources to the Netbeans HG repository under the /main/contrib/regexplugin folder, after removing a license dependency on a non-CDDL license due to a library I was using. I did away with it by coding the required functionality myself. That's the only update right now.

The development source code is maintained at the Netbeans Contrib Repository http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib under the "regexplugin" folder. Get Mercurial and run the following command to clone the repository:

# hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib

To get release sources (zip), visit the Project's Files section.

Soon after, I had sent a request to the nbdev mailing list for Netbeans.org project hosting for the RegExPlugin (I use module and plugin interchangeably).

The module's webpage is now hosted as a wiki-page at wiki.netbeans.org/Regex.This webpage provides details about the plugin's future plans, end-user documentation, information on how to get to the development as well as release sources, screencasts, release notes, module download links, etc. I have also put up the initial Netbeans Innovators Grant Proposal for the module up on the wiki.The project can be accessed at a simple URL, http://regexmodule.netbeans.org. Due to planned changes with NetBeans project web infrastructure, the project's homepage will not be hosted on that page, and it is a redirection to the wiki.netbeans.org webpage. The Netbeans.org project provides files section, announcements, issue tracker, mailing lists, members list, admin as well as a CVS access to the website's files, all of which have been linked to from the wiki-page. It's pretty cool.

By the way, this is my first blog post from right inside OpenOffice.org Writer using the Sun Weblog Publisher. Neat!