Introduction

This document lists changes made to the Project Libraries API.

Index of APIs

Project Libraries API

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

(Aug 31 '07) Customizer for volume type in LibraryTypeProvider is not mandatory
(Aug 11 '06) Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager
(Dec 22 '04) Switched to major release version 1

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.project.libraries/1 > 1.20

(1.15) Customizer for volume type in LibraryTypeProvider is not mandatory
(1.14) Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager
(1.10) Switched to major release version 1

Changes by affected class

`org.netbeans.spi.project.libraries.support.LibrariesSupport`

(Aug 11 '06) Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager

`org.netbeans.spi.project.libraries.LibraryFactory`

(Aug 11 '06) Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager

`org.netbeans.api.project.libraries.LibraryManager`

(Aug 11 '06) Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager

`org.netbeans.spi.project.libraries.LibraryTypeProvider`

(Aug 31 '07) Customizer for volume type in LibraryTypeProvider is not mandatory

Details of all changes by API and date

Project Libraries API

Customizer for volume type in LibraryTypeProvider is not mandatory

Aug 31 '07; API spec. version: 1.15; affected top-level classes: LibraryTypeProvider; made by: mkleint

LibraryTypeProvider.getCustomizer() can return null for some volume types.

Added methods for adding and removing libraries into/from library manager

Aug 11 '06; API spec. version: 1.14; affected top-level classes: LibraryManager LibraryFactory LibrariesSupport; made by: tzezula

Added method for adding and removing a new library into/from the library manager. Added a factory class for creating Library (API object) form LibraryImplementation (SPI object). Added a support methods for listing installed LibraryTypeProviders.

Switched to major release version 1

Dec 22 '04; API spec. version: 1.10; made by: jglick; issues: #51468

To indicate that this is now considered a stable API, the major release version was incremented to 1 from 0.

Compatibility:

Clients should begin requesting the new version to avoid a warning at startup.