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Bug 174804

Summary:	Simplify common uses of Node
Product:	platform	Reporter:	_ tboudreau <tboudreau>
Component:	Nodes	Assignee:	apireviews <apireviews>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jglick
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description _ tboudreau 2009-10-17 09:30:24 UTC

Per recent suggestion on dev@openide - the initial learning curve for Nodes is greater than it needs to be for many common, simple uses.  The concept that a 
Node has a Children object and that both need to be implemented is more than a user really needs to know.

There are a number of other cases which require subclassing AbstractNode which

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2009-10-17 10:20:08 UTC


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 174805 ***