NetBeans API Changes since Last Release

Version 6.8

6 Jul 2010

This document highlights changes in NetBeans APIs since previous version (e.g. since 29 Jun 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, and release 6.7.

(Nov 9 '09) org-openide-loaders: New constructor of XMLDataObject
(Nov 2 '09) org-netbeans-api-progress: ProgressUtils class with runOffEventDispatchThread methods was added.
(Oct 30 '09) org-openide-util: Added @URLStreamHandlerRegistration
(Oct 19 '09) org-openide-explorer: TreeView.setAutoWaitCursor added.
(Oct 16 '09) org-openide-awt: Support for silent notifications
(Oct 9 '09) org-openide-awt: Actions.checkbox() can represent a boolean key in Preferences.
(Oct 1 '09) org-openide-text: Add CloneableEditorSupport.asynchronousOpen
(Sep 18 '09) org-openide-filesystems: Support for recursive listeners
(Sep 14 '09) org-netbeans-modules-options-api: Annotations to register dialog panels
(Sep 14 '09) org-openide-filesystems: Non-initializing LayerBuilder.instanceFile added
(Sep 10 '09) org-openide-filesystems: LayerBuilder.folder added
(Sep 10 '09) org-openide-util: ImageUtilities.createDisabledIcon and ImageUtilities.createDisabledImage added.
(Sep 3 '09) org-openide-loaders: Added annotateName and toolTip to DataEditorSupport
(Aug 31 '09) org-openide-filesystems: System filesystem label/icon annotations work without full module system
(Aug 25 '09) org-openide-filesystems: Support for processing batch events
(Aug 24 '09) org-openide-awt: AlwaysEnabledAction can represent a boolean key in Preferences.
(Aug 19 '09) org-netbeans-modules-autoupdate-services: New operation type introduced together with method for create appropriate container
(Aug 12 '09) org-openide-filesystems: Allow modules to provide fallback layer content
(Aug 12 '09) org-openide-text: Add NbDocument.findRecentEditorPane
(Aug 7 '09) org-netbeans-modules-settings: @ConvertAsJavaBean annotation
(Aug 7 '09) org-openide-awt: URLDisplayer can show URLs in an external browser even if the preferred browser is an internal one.
(Aug 5 '09) org-openide-util: NbBundle.getMessage can take arbitrarily many format arguments
(Aug 4 '09) org-openide-awt: Added 'location' String property to HtmlBrowser.Impl
(Jul 30 '09) org-openide-awt: Support for asynchronous actions
(Jul 29 '09) org-openide-util: Copied API from project.ant for EditableProperties.
(Jul 24 '09) org-openide-io: Adding API to have better control of text color and hyperlinks
(Jul 15 '09) org-openide-awt: Added HtmlBrowser.dispose
(Jul 15 '09) org-openide-windows: New method to retrieve the list of TopComponents opened in a Mode.
(Jul 14 '09) org-openide-util: Added way to request that the platform restart.
(Jul 1 '09) org-openide-awt: Context Aware Action Factories