openide

This is the old home page for the NetBeans APIs. Please now use platform.netbeans.org!

Some potentially useful (but poorly maintained) links:

• O'Reilly title NetBeans: The Definitive Guide
• NB: TDG chapter contents online (draft stage)
• proposing and developing APIs and API changes
• architecture review steps
• versioning policy: maintaining specification numbers, dependencies, and compatibility

Various old proposals and design documents which may or may not still be applicable:

• Actions API redesign
• General architectural improvements (mainly pertaining to module system and packaging)
• Generic object classification framework
• Datasystems / settings redesign
• MasterFS design and redesign
• NB on Mac OS X
• Wizards API redesign
• Property sheet design and redesign