NetBeans API Changes since Last Release

Current Development Version

8 Feb 2010

This document highlights changes in NetBeans APIs since previous version (e.g. since 10 Dec 2009). There are also other documents that list changes made for release 4.1, release 5.0, release 5.5, release 6.0, release 6.1, release 6.5, release 6.7, and release 6.8.

(Feb 5 '10) org-netbeans-api-java-classpath: Added a constant representing an empty ClassPath
(Jan 27 '10) org-netbeans-api-java: Introducing AnnotationProcessingQuery
(Jan 26 '10) org-netbeans-modules-java-api-common: Support for AnnotationProcessingQuery
(Jan 26 '10) org-netbeans-modules-parsing-api: Adding PathRecognizerRegistration annotation
(Jan 26 '10) org-openide-filesystems: Effective constructor for JarFileSystem
(Jan 21 '10) org-netbeans-modules-parsing-api: Adding ErrorsCache
(Jan 21 '10) org-openide-util: Action SPI interfaces added
(Jan 21 '10) org-openide-util: NbPreferences.Provider added
(Jan 18 '10) org-netbeans-modules-parsing-api: Methods scanStarted and scanFinished added to BinaryIndexerFactory
(Jan 15 '10) org-netbeans-modules-java-project: Added JavadocAndSourceRootDetection.findSourceRoots method to find all source roots under the given folder
(Jan 15 '10) org-openide-util-lookup: Introducing semihidden SPI
(Jan 14 '10) org-netbeans-modules-editor-util: Added DocumentUtilities.getDocumentTimestamp(Document)
(Jan 14 '10) org-openide-windows: Annotation to retain the location of non-persistent TopComponents if the user drags them to another location on the screen.
(Jan 11 '10) org-netbeans-modules-editor-lib: Cleaning up o.n.editor.Registry
(Jan 11 '10) org-openide-explorer: OutlineView.setPropertyColumns, OutlineView.addPropertyColumn and OutlineView.removePropertyColumn added.
(Jan 8 '10) org-netbeans-api-progress: SPI added
(Jan 8 '10) org-openide-filesystems: Access methods added to MIMEResolver.UIHelpers
(Jan 6 '10) org-openide-modules: Simplified ModuleInstall lifecycle
(Jan 6 '10) org-openide-modules: Added InstalledFileLocator.locateAll
(Dec 21 '09) org-netbeans-modules-editor-lib: Removing DrawLayer and related API
(Dec 21 '09) org-openide-explorer: OutlineView.setTreeSortable added.
(Dec 21 '09) org-openide-text: Deprecating style constants in NbDocument
(Dec 20 '09) org-openide-util: Lookup API extracted
(Dec 20 '09) org-openide-util-lookup: Separate module for Lookup API
(Dec 15 '09) org-netbeans-api-debugger: Support for changing the order of watches.
(Dec 15 '09) org-netbeans-spi-viewmodel: Drag and Drop support.
(Dec 14 '09) org-netbeans-modules-editor-lib: Add flag hideBottomPadding to GapDocumentView constructor to be able to control adding bottom padding.
(Dec 11 '09) org-netbeans-modules-keyring: Keyring API created