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Umbrella issue for global progress indication tasks, both API and visual part of implementation.
Passing to Milos, who's leading progress work.
we have up spec for some time already.
Progress indication UI/API has been integrated in trunk. See its javadoc at http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-api-progress/overview-summary.html