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UML, Visual Web, and SOA Will Be Moved to Update Center

Hi all,

you've probably heard about three technologies that will soon be moved to the Update Center. Here is part of the official announcement that went out last week:

NB community members,

With each NetBeans IDE release, modules are moved to/from the standard distribution and to/from the Stable or Beta Update Centers. For the NetBeans IDE 6.7 release, we want to call out three modules that have been moved out of the standard distribution to the Beta Update Center: SOA, UML, and Visual Web. We want you to understand the ramifications of these changes. First, you will not see these modules in your IDE by default, if you want the them, you will have to go to the Beta Update Center and install them. Also, modules on the Beta Update Center have the following quality criteria: no P1 bugs, all tests from Tests Distribution have to pass, and a check on target platforms. For details, visit http://wiki.netbeans.org/StableModuleCriteria.

Here is the state of each specific module:

The SOA module has been removed from the standard distribution for NetBeans 6.7, BUT it is under active development for the next NetBeans release, scheduled for Fall 2009.

The UML module has been removed from the standard distribution. For NetBeans 6.7, there are no new features. For enterprise-class UML support, we recommend SDE for NetBeans by Visual Paradigm.

The Visual Web JSF module has been removed from the standard distribution, along with the Woodstock components. These modules have been released to the community for support and future development. The NetBeans IDE still supports web development with JSF and JSPs. To go beyond the standard JSF Components, we recommend you use the ICEfaces plugin.

Thank you for your support. Please join us on the NetBeans mailing lists and forums.

This is a lot easier than it sounds. I've been busy separating the Web helpset from the Visual Web JSF helpset. What a task. I just checked in a few changes today, and I wonder if I've broken the build. We'll see.

Wish me luck.

Cheers!

--James

Posted at 06:05PM Apr 14, 2009 by branajam in NetBeans  |  Comments[1]