Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Emilian Bold
Depends which modules you are using but, yes, I would start with org-openide. I guess you might also use org-netbeans-api-visual. If you already are on 8.2 I don't think there are any problems going to 11. Perhaps the removal of JavaHelp will be a problem, assuming you provide JavaHelp in your app

RE: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Adam Korynta
>> Is there a corresponding Netbeans RCP version for every Netbeans IDE release? >Yes, but there aren't necessarily Platform changes between NetBeans releases. >I think you could look at the individual module versions to see if something >actually changed. Based on the API changes document it

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yes, there tend to be smallish API changes between releases since the NetBeans Platform is pretty stable at this point. The org-openide modules are the oldest modules and org-netbeans was the naming convention created later. The IDE modules are in the “ide” folder in the GitHub repo, the NetBeans P

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
That’s brilliant and very inspiring, if you have some screenshots you can share with us please do so, and how large is your team? Gj On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 17:13, Adam Korynta wrote: > All of this information is perfect, thank you for your reply. > > > > Our organization writes engineering soft

RE: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Adam Korynta
All of this information is perfect, thank you for your reply. Our organization writes engineering software for the California Department of Water Resources using the Netbeans RCP for a modeling post-processing tool (https://github.com/CalSimCalLite/DWR-Enhanced-Post-Processing-Tool). In this pr

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
https://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/apichanges.html Gj On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:11 AM Neil C Smith wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 10:03, Emilian Bold wrote: > > > > > Note that every NetBeans release has the spec version of every module > > increased, so this might not be a useful guide!

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Neil C Smith
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 10:03, Emilian Bold wrote: > > > Note that every NetBeans release has the spec version of every module > increased, so this might not be a useful guide! > > So besides diff-ing source code is there some way to see if something > changed in the Platform? Well, you can at lea

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Emilian Bold
> Note that every NetBeans release has the spec version of every module increased, so this might not be a useful guide! So besides diff-ing source code is there some way to see if something changed in the Platform? --emi On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:46 AM Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 20

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Neil C Smith
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 00:21, Adam Korynta wrote: > I assume Netbeans RCP 8.2 only supports JDK 8. Is this right? And is OpenJDK > supported? 8.2 works great with OpenJDK 8, should you need that as a stopgap. I shipped Zulu OpenJDK 8 with an 8.2 based application for some time, although would p

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Emilian Bold
> Is there a corresponding Netbeans RCP version for every Netbeans IDE release? Yes, but there aren't necessarily Platform changes between NetBeans releases. I think you could look at the individual module versions to see if something actually changed. > What JDK versions does Netbeans RCP 11 sup

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
The NetBeans Platform is simply part of NetBeans IDE. I updated the page you referred to and the place to be looking for any info is netbeans.apache.org, in your case especially https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html. On the Download pages per release you can see which JDK is supported, fo

Re: Netbeans RCP Compatibility

2019-10-17 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > The NetBeans Platform is simply part of NetBeans IDE. I updated the page > you referred to and the place to be looking for any info is > netbeans.apache.org, in your case especially > https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html. On t