If you're using NetBeans and JavaFX maybe you'll find this useful: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/netbeans_6_7_1_is
-- Tor On Jul 28, 7:20 pm, Bill Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice. Thanks Tor. > > On Jul 28, 8:45 pm, TorNorbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes. You can see which feature clusters are activated in the plugin > > manager - and you can deactivate them there too. > > > -- Tor > > > On Jul 28, 5:37 pm, Bill Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've seen that in action, but what makes me wonder is if I experiment > > > with a feature that I don't use again is it then enabled every time I > > > start? Or are the features activated when projects that reqire them > > > are loaded? Just curious. > > > > Thanks! > > > > On Jul 28, 2:46 pm, TorNorbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > As of NetBeans 6.7 there isn't a penalty anymore for downloading the > > > > Giant release. > > > > > In the past, there was. If you downloaded the Everything/Kitchen Sink > > > > release, hundreds and hundreds of plugins were all enabled, adding a > > > > bunch of menu items to the menus, hooking up action enablement based > > > > on your selection etc. > > > > > We noticed from download statistics that more than half of all > > > > downloads were for the big release even if most people use only > > > > smaller portions. Therefore, in 6.7, a new on-demand architecture was > > > > implemented. Now most functionality is completely disabled (not even > > > > loaded, so no penalty). Only when you hit certain entry points (load > > > > project, create project, attach debugger, and a few others) does it > > > > ask if you want to activate that feature cluster and then it goes and > > > > actually enables it. > > > > > In short, go ahead and get the full release - you've got the bandwidth > > > > and diskspace, and you won't get penalized performancewise for it > > > > anymore. > > > > > -- Tor > > > > > On Jul 28, 10:56 am, Ryan Waterer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I completely agree with Bill. It is the easiest way to get what you > > > > > want > > > > > and not have to worry about any extras that could potentially cause > > > > > problems. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Robertson > > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > With NB, its best to download the smallest package and add to it > > > > > > through the plugin manager (tools->plugins). However, I think > > > > > > downloading the JavaFX version of netbeans is probably equivalent to > > > > > > starting with the base and then adding JavaFX. > > > > > > > Jan, I don't know if is widespread agreement on good formatting for > > > > > > JavaFX source code. The first (?) version of the plugin would > > > > > > format > > > > > > code, but I didn't like the choices they made. It would also do it > > > > > > w/ > > > > > > o asking, which was doubly bad. Don't know if they disabled it for > > > > > > the bugs or for style. > > > > > > > On Jul 28, 12:39 pm, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > So if I want JavaFX I need the 90M one, but then I can't use it > > > > > > > for > > > > > > > regular Java? And if I get the 300M one I can do Java but not > > > > > > > JavaFX? > > > > > > > > I'm not very familiar with Netbeans, which one should I get for > > > > > > > JavaFX > > > > > > > and Java but I don't need Ruby or C? > > > > > > > > On Jul 27, 1:29 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
