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            Describe the overall architecture. 

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 <answer id="arch-overall">

  <p>

   <api type="export" category="devel" group="java" name="multitabs" />

  </p>

  <p>The main purpose of this API is to allow third-party customizations of editor

  tabs. Instead of implementing many interfaces and creating various UI delegates

  it is possible to create a simple decorator-like class that can customize

  the appearance of a specific editor tab. For example change tabs background color

  according to file type or project type, change its icon etc.</p>

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  <p>

   The API will be covered by unit tests.

  </p>

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 <answer id="arch-time">

  <p>

   The API is already implemented in org.netbeans.core.multitabs package.

  </p>

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            use cases</a> of the new API. Who will use it under

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 <answer id="arch-usecases">

  <p>

      <usecase id="tabdecorator" name="Tab Decorator">

          <p>To customize the rendering of (some) editor tabs one needs subclass

              <code>TabDecorator</code> class and register it in the global <code>Lookup</code>.</p>

              <p>The example below shows a decorator that removes file extension

              from Java source files to have shorter tabs to show more file names

              without the need for scrolling.</p>

              <pre>

ServiceProvider(service = TabDecorator.class, position = 1000)

public class MyTabDecorator extends TabDecorator {

    public String getText( TabData tab ) {

        String res = tab.getText();

        if( null != res )

            res = res.replace( ".java", "");

        return res;

    }

}

              </pre>

      </usecase>

      <usecase id="customdisplayer" name="Custom Tab Displayer">

          <p>If one needs a custom editor tab displayer for example to have special

          tab layout or special layout of scrolling buttons etc it is necessary

              to subclass <code>TabDisplayer</code> class and register an instance

              of <code>TabDisplayerFactory</code> in the global <code>Lookup</code>.

          </p>

          <pre>

public class MyTabDisplayer extends TabDisplayer {

    public MyTabDisplayer( TabDataModel model ) {

        super( model );

    }

    ServiceProvider(service = TabDisplayerFactory.class)

    public static class MyTabDisplayerFactory extends TabDisplayerFactory {

        public TabDisplayer createTabDisplayer( TabDataModel tabModel, int orientation ) {

            return new MyTabDisplayer( tabModel );

        }

    }

    //implement all abstract methods here

}

          </pre>

      </usecase>

  </p>

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 <answer id="arch-what">

  <p>

   Allow easy customization of editor tabs.

  </p>

 </answer>

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  <defaultanswer generate='here' />

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 <answer id="compat-deprecation">

  <p>

   This API doesn't not deprecate or replace any existing APIs.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Is your module correctly internationalized?

            <hint>

            Correct internationalization means that it obeys instructions 

            at <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/org-openide-modules/org/openide/modules/doc-files/i18n-branding.html">

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 <answer id="compat-i18n">

  <p>

   Yes

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Does the module implement or define any standards? Is the 

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 <answer id="compat-standards">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Can your module coexist with earlier and future

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            <hint>

            Very helpful for reading settings is to store version number

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            the settings and older versions can ignore the new ones.

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 <answer id="compat-version">

  <p>

   Yes

  </p>

 </answer>

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 <answer id="dep-jre">

  <p>

   1.6 or better.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Do you require the JDK or is the JRE enough?

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 <answer id="dep-jrejdk">

  <p>

   JRE

  </p>

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            the <code>&lt;api name="identification" type="import or export" category="stable" url="where is the description" /&gt;</code>.

            By doing this information gets listed in the summary page of your

            javadoc.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="dep-nb">

  <defaultanswer generate='here' />

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 <answer id="dep-non-nb">

  <p>

   The module depends on org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol module (it reuses its data model)

      and on org.netbeans.core.windows module as it implements some of its

      tab container interfaces and classes.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            On which platforms does your module run? Does it run in the same

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 <answer id="dep-platform">

  <p>

   It is platform independent.

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="deploy-dependencies" when="final">

            What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one,

            in addition to or instead of the normal module dependency declaration

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            <hint>

                Provide a sample of the actual lines you would add to a module manifest

                to declare a dependency, for example OpenIDE-Module-Requires: some.token.

                If other modules should not depend on this module, or should just use a

                simple regular module dependency, you can just answer "nothing". If you

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 <answer id="deploy-dependencies">

  <p>

   No other dependencies.

  </p>

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            Do you deploy just module JAR file(s) or other files as well?

            <hint>

            Usually a module consist of one JAR file (perhaps with Class-Path

            extensions) and also a configuration file that enables it. If you

            have any other files, use

            <api group="java.io.File" name="yourname" type="export" category="friend">...</api>

            to define the location, name and stability of your files (of course

            changing "yourname" and "friend" to suit your needs).

            If it uses more than one JAR, describe where they are located, how

            they refer to each other. 

            If it consist of module JAR(s) and other files, please describe

            what is their purpose, why other files are necessary. Please 

            make sure that installation/uninstallation leaves the system 

            in state as it was before installation.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="deploy-jar">

  <p>

   JAR only

  </p>

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            Can you deploy an NBM via the Update Center?

            <hint>

            If not why?

            </hint>

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 <answer id="deploy-nbm">

  <p>

   Yes

  </p>

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            Are packages of your module made inaccessible by not declaring them

            public?

            <hint>

            By default NetBeans build harness treats all packages are private.

            If you export some of them - either as public or friend packages,

            you should have a reason. If the reason is described elsewhere

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            </hint>

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 <answer id="deploy-packages">

  <p>

   Only package org.netbeans.core.multitabs is exported as public.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Do you need to be installed in the shared location only, or in the user directory only,

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            <hint>

            Installation location shall not matter, if it does explain why.

            Consider also whether <code>InstalledFileLocator</code> can help.

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 <answer id="deploy-shared">

  <p>

   Does not matter

  </p>

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            Do you define or register any ant tasks that other can use?

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            If you provide an ant task that users can use, you need to be very

            careful about its syntax and behaviour, as it most likely forms an

	          API for end users and as there is a lot of end users, their reaction

            when such API gets broken can be pretty strong.

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 <answer id="exec-ant-tasks">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Does your code create its own class loader(s)?

            <hint>

            A bit unusual. Please explain why and what for.

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  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Is execution of your code influenced by any (string) property

            of any of your components?

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            Often <code>JComponent.getClientProperty</code>, <code>Action.getValue</code>

            or <code>PropertyDescriptor.getValue</code>, etc. are used to influence

            a behavior of some code. This of course forms an interface that should

            be documented. Also if one depends on some interface that an object

            implements (<code>component instanceof Runnable</code>) that forms an

            API as well.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="exec-component">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Does your module use any kind of runtime type information (<code>instanceof</code>,

            work with <code>java.lang.Class</code>, etc.)?

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            Check for cases when you have an object of type A and you also

            expect it to (possibly) be of type B and do some special action. That

            should be documented. The same applies on operations in meta-level

            (Class.isInstance(...), Class.isAssignableFrom(...), etc.).

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="exec-introspection">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Are you aware of any other parts of the system calling some of 

            your methods by reflection?

            <hint>

            If so, describe the "contract" as an API. Likely private or friend one, but

            still API and consider rewrite of it.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="exec-privateaccess">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Do you execute an external process from your module? How do you ensure

            that the result is the same on different platforms? Do you parse output?

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            If you feed an input, parse the output please declare that as an API.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="exec-process">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            Is execution of your code influenced by any environment or

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            On a similar note, is there something interesting that you

            pass to <code>java.util.logging.Logger</code>? Or do you observe

            what others log?

            <hint>

            If there is a property that can change the behavior of your 

            code, somebody will likely use it. You should describe what it does 

            and the <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/API_Stability">stability category</a>

            of this API. You may use

            <pre>

                <api type="export" group="property" name="id" category="private" url="http://...">

                    description of the property, where it is used, what it influence, etc.

                </api>            

            </pre>

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="exec-property">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Does your code use Java Reflection to execute other code?

            <hint>

            This usually indicates a missing or insufficient API in the other

            part of the system. If the other side is not aware of your dependency

            this contract can be easily broken.

            </hint>

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 <answer id="exec-reflection">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

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            What threading models, if any, does your module adhere to? How the

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                Is your API threadsafe? Can it be accessed from any threads or

                just from some dedicated ones? Any special relation to AWT and

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                be fully thread-safe (internal locking); might require access through a mutex

                (and may or may not automatically acquire that mutex on behalf of a client method);

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                Also describe when any events are fired: synchronously, asynchronously, etc.

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 <answer id="exec-threading">

  <p>

   The API creates/uses Swing components which should be access from EDT only.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Which data flavors (if any) does your code read from or insert to

            the clipboard (by access to clipboard on means calling methods on <code>java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable</code>?

            <hint>

            Often Node's deal with clipboard by usage of <code>Node.clipboardCopy, Node.clipboardCut and Node.pasteTypes</code>.

            Check your code for overriding these methods.

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="format-clipboard">

  <p>

   No custom data flavors.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Which protocols (if any) does your code understand during Drag & Drop?

            <hint>

            Often Node's deal with clipboard by usage of <code>Node.drag, Node.getDropType</code>. 

            Check your code for overriding these methods. Btw. if they are not overridden, they

            by default delegate to <code>Node.clipboardCopy, Node.clipboardCut and Node.pasteTypes</code>.

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="format-dnd">

  <p>

   No custom d'n'd

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Which protocols and file formats (if any) does your module read or write on disk,

            or transmit or receive over the network? Do you generate an ant build script?

            Can it be edited and modified? 

            <hint>

            <p>

            Files can be read and written by other programs, modules and users. If they influence

            your behaviour, make sure you either document the format or claim that it is a private

            api (using the <api> tag). 

            </p>

            <p>

            If you generate an ant build file, this is very likely going to be seen by end users and

            they will be attempted to edit it. You should be ready for that and provide here a link

            to documentation that you have for such purposes and also describe how you are going to

            understand such files during next release, when you (very likely) slightly change the 

            format.

            </p>

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="format-types">

  <p>

   No file formats

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="lookup-lookup" when="init">

            Does your module use <code>org.openide.util.Lookup</code>

            or any similar technology to find any components to communicate with? Which ones?

            <hint>

            NetBeans is build around a generic registry of services called

            lookup. It is preferable to use it for registration and discovery

            if possible. See

            <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/org-openide-util/org/openide/util/lookup/doc-files/index.html">

            The Solution to Comunication Between Components

            </a>. If you do not plan to use lookup and insist usage

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            you.

            <br/>

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            API contract. Use <api group=&lookup& /> tag, so

            your information gets listed in the summary page of your javadoc.

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="lookup-lookup">

  <p>

      The module checks the global lookup for an instance of <code>org.netbeans.core.multitabs.TabDisplayerFactory</code>

      to see if other than the default implementation of multi-tabs is available.

  </p>

  <p>

      The default implementation of multi-tabs also looks for <code>org.netbeans.core.multitabs.TabDecorator</code>

        instances to check if any third party wants to change the editor tab rendering.

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="lookup-register" when="final">

            Do you register anything into lookup for other code to find?

            <hint>

            Do you register using layer file or using a declarative annotation such as <code>@ServiceProvider</code>?

            Who is supposed to find your component?

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="lookup-register">

  <p>

      The module registers an instance of

     <code>org.netbeans.swing.tabcontrol.customtabs.TabbedComponentFactory</code>

     to provide custom implementation of editor tabs displayer.

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="lookup-remove" when="final">

            Do you remove entries of other modules from lookup?

            <hint>

            Why? Of course, that is possible, but it can be dangerous. Is the module

            your are masking resource from aware of what you are doing?

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="lookup-remove">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="perf-exit" when="final">

            Does your module run any code on exit?

        </question>

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 <answer id="perf-exit">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="perf-huge_dialogs" when="final">

            Does your module contain any dialogs or wizards with a large number of

            GUI controls such as combo boxes, lists, trees, or text areas?

        </question>

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 <answer id="perf-huge_dialogs">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="perf-limit" when="init">

            Are there any hard-coded or practical limits in the number or size of

            elements your code can handle?

            <hint>

                Most of algorithms have increasing memory and speed complexity

                with respect to size of data they operate on. What is the critical

                part of your project that can be seen as a bottleneck with

                respect to speed or required memory? What are the practical

                sizes of data you tested your project with? What is your estimate

                of potential size of data that would cause visible performance

                problems? Is there some kind of check to detect such situation

                and prevent "hard" crashes - for example the CloneableEditorSupport

                checks for size of a file to be opened in editor

                and if it is larger than 1Mb it shows a dialog giving the

                user the right to decide - e.g. to cancel or commit suicide.

            </hint>

        </question>

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 <answer id="perf-limit">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

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        <question id="perf-mem" when="final">

            How much memory does your component consume? Estimate

            with a relation to the number of windows, etc.

        </question>

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 <answer id="perf-mem">

  <p>

   It's just a JTable showing an editor tab in each cell.

  </p>

 </answer>

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            Does your module use dynamically updated context menus, or

            context-sensitive actions with complicated and slow enablement logic?

            <hint>

                If you do a lot of tricks when adding actions to regular or context menus, you can significantly

                slow down display of the menu, even when the user is not using your action. Pay attention to

                actions you add to the main menu bar, and to context menus of foreign nodes or components. If

                the action is conditionally enabled, or changes its display dynamically, you need to check the

                impact on performance. In some cases it may be more appropriate to make a simple action that is

                always enabled but does more detailed checks in a dialog if it is actually run.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-menus">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="perf-progress" when="final">

            Does your module execute any long-running tasks?

            <hint>Long running tasks should never block 

            AWT thread as it badly hurts the UI

            <a href="http://performance.netbeans.org/responsiveness/issues.html">

            responsiveness</a>.

            Tasks like connecting over

            network, computing huge amount of data, compilation

            be done asynchronously (for example

            using <code>RequestProcessor</code>), definitively it should 

            not block AWT thread.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-progress">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="perf-scale" when="init">

            Which external criteria influence the performance of your

            program (size of file in editor, number of files in menu, 

            in source directory, etc.) and how well your code scales?

            <hint>

            Please include some estimates, there are other more detailed 

            questions to answer in later phases of implementation. 

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-scale">

  <p>

   Does not apply

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="perf-spi" when="init">

            How the performance of the plugged in code will be enforced?

            <hint>

            If you allow foreign code to be plugged into your own module, how

            do you enforce that it will behave correctly and quickly and will not

            negatively influence the performance of your own module?

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-spi">

  <p>

   All the code will be executed in EDT, NetBeans slowness detector should kick-in

      when third-party plugin takes too much time.

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="perf-startup" when="final">

            Does your module run any code on startup?

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-startup">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="perf-wakeup" when="final">

            Does any piece of your code wake up periodically and do something

            even when the system is otherwise idle (no user interaction)?

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="perf-wakeup">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="resources-file" when="final">

            Does your module use <code>java.io.File</code> directly?

            <hint>

            NetBeans provide a logical wrapper over plain files called 

            <code>org.openide.filesystems.FileObject</code> that

            provides uniform access to such resources and is the preferred

            way that should be used. But of course there can be situations when

            this is not suitable.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="resources-file">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="resources-layer" when="final">

            Does your module provide own layer? Does it create any files or

            folders in it? What it is trying to communicate by that and with which 

            components?

            <hint>

            NetBeans allows automatic and declarative installation of resources 

            by module layers. Module register files into appropriate places

            and other components use that information to perform their task

            (build menu, toolbar, window layout, list of templates, set of

            options, etc.). 

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="resources-layer">

  <p>

   Yes, it is used to register its options panel into Tools - Options window.

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="resources-mask" when="final">

            Does your module mask/hide/override any resources provided by other modules in

            their layers?

            <hint>

            If you mask a file provided by another module, you probably depend

            on that and do not want the other module to (for example) change

            the file's name. That module shall thus make that file available as an API

            of some stability category.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="resources-mask">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="resources-preferences" when="final">

            Does your module uses preferences via Preferences API? Does your module use NbPreferences or

            or regular JDK Preferences ? Does it read, write or both ? 

            Does it share preferences with other modules ? If so, then why ?

            <hint>

                You may use

                    <api type="export" group="preferences"

                    name="preference node name" category="private">

                    description of individual keys, where it is used, what it

                    influences, whether the module reads/write it, etc.

                    </api>

                Due to XML ID restrictions, rather than /org/netbeans/modules/foo give the "name" as org.netbeans.modules.foo.

                Note that if you use NbPreferences this name will then be the same as the code name base of the module.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="resources-preferences">

  <p>

   NbPreferences are used to store user settings in Tools - Options window.

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="resources-read" when="final">

            Does your module read any resources from layers? For what purpose?

            <hint>

            As this is some kind of intermodule dependency, it is a kind of API.

            Please describe it and classify according to 

            <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/API_Design#What_is_an_API.3F">

            common stability categories</a>.

            </hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="resources-read">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="security-grant" when="final">

            Does your code grant additional rights to some other code?

            <hint>Avoid using a class loader that adds extra

            permissions to loaded code unless really necessary.

            Also note that your API implementation

            can also expose unneeded permissions to enemy code by

            calling AccessController.doPrivileged().</hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="security-grant">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

<!--

        <question id="security-policy" when="final">

            Does your functionality require modifications to the standard policy file?

            <hint>Your code might pass control to third-party code not

            coming from trusted domains. This could be code downloaded over the

            network or code coming from libraries that are not bundled

            with NetBeans. Which permissions need to be granted to which domains?</hint>

        </question>

-->

 <answer id="security-policy">

  <p>

   No

  </p>

 </answer>

</api-answers>

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