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Introduction

What do the Dates Mean?

The supplied dates indicate when the API change was made, on the CVS trunk. From this you can generally tell whether the change should be present in a given build or not; for trunk builds, simply whether it was made before or after the change; for builds on a stabilization branch, whether the branch was made before or after the given date. In some cases corresponding API changes have been made both in the trunk and in an in-progress stabilization branch, if they were needed for a bug fix; this ought to be marked in this list.


Index of APIs

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

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: $codebase > 1.20

Changes by affected class

org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem

org.openide.filesystems.StatusDecorator


Details of all changes by API and date


Filesystems API - NetBeans extensions

FileSystem.Status API removed

Oct 3 '14; API spec. version: 9.1; affected top-level classes: org.openide.filesystems.StatusDecorator org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem; made by: sdedic; issues: #247200

The FileSystem.Status was entirely removed, as it references class java.awt.Image, which is not available in compact jdk profiles and may trigger GUI system initialization. See javadocs of StatusDecorator for details.

FileSystem.Status icon annotation moved

Apr 11 '14; API spec. version: 9.0; affected top-level classes: org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem; made by: sdedic; issues: #243561

The default implementation of FileSystem.Status annotated file's icon using ImageUtilities which uses AWT graphics etc. Such dependency is not desirable in a standalone FileSystem API library.

The builtin implementation now does not work with the icon at all and returns null. A proper implementation for FileSystem.Status is looked up in default Lookup and is implemented properly (with Icon annotations) in openide.filesystems.nb module.