NetBeans 5.5.1 Enterprise Pack Beta Program: Program Etiquette
This page summarizes basic rules and advice valid for all members of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.1 NetCAT team. We kindly ask all program participants to follow these rules in order to help streamline the processing of the feedback provided during the program.
Email Subject
Due to anticipated high traffic on the NetCAT 5.5.1 mailing list, especially at the beginning of the program, it is important to be able to filter NetCAT e-mails. Please use the appropriate prefix in the subject line of each new message to the list, based on the area of the message's concerns. See the table below for the prefixes. Also, we strongly recommend that you read all messages that have [news] in the subject. These messages are program related announcements from the NetCAT coordinator.
| Subject Prefix |
Use for message related to ... |
| [ws] |
Web Services |
| [ejb] |
EJB support |
| [web] |
Web applications support |
| [editor] |
Any J2EE editor functionality problems |
| [server] |
Application servers |
| [compapp] |
Composite Application Service Assembly Editor (connect endpoints of Service Units, add and remove connections between Service Units) |
| [javaee] |
Java EE |
| [bpel] |
BPEL (visual authoring of BPEL processes to orchestrate web services) |
| [xml] |
XML (author and edit XML schema and XML instance documents) |
| [xslt] |
XSLT Editor (visual editing of transformations) |
| [wsdl] |
Graphical WSDL Editor (easy creation of WSDL documents) |
| [identity] |
Identity-enabled Java EE Services (enable message level security) |
| [wsit] |
WSIT (inter-operate with .NET services) |
| [iep] |
Intelligent Event Processor (real time business event collection and processing) |
| [bc] |
Binding Components (File, FTP, HTTP, JDBC, JMS binding components) |
| [install] |
Installation and configuration |
| [wsdl] |
WSDL Editor related problems |
| [iep] |
Intelligent Event Processor related problems |
| [compapp] |
Problems related to creation of composite applications |
| [xslt] |
XSLT Editor related problems |
| [news] |
NetCAT program related announcements, requests, reports and so on. |
Email Content
If you want to have your feedback processed properly, we advise you to comply with the following suggestions:
- Be brief. People tend to skip some parts of or even completely disregard long emails.
- Do not reply to other messages if you are posting a new topic. Such e-mails may be overlooked as they get folded in the original thread.
- Do not mix topics. Instead, write two separate email messages if you want to cover two functional areas.
- Help others if you know the answer.
- We encourage you to attach images (screenshots to illustrate a problem) provided that they are smaller than 100KB.
Issues and Enhancements
Here is some advice regarding the reporting of defects or requesting of enhancements:
- File issues yourself. If you encounter a problem, report it. Don't rely on others because the sooner we know about it the more time we have for a fix.
- Try to find a step-by-step reproducible procedure starting with an empty user directory (userdir) or at least describe what you did before.
- If the IDE is locked or hangs, attach its thread dump. (Windows: CTRL+Break, Unix: CTRL+\)
- Vote for issues that you feel strongly about.
- Follow the bug priority guidelines.
- Read the instructions about how to write a good bug report.
Viruses, Worms, and Spam
Please take all necessary precautions to protect your computers against virus attacks and any kind of spam sent via NetCAT mailing list. We will tolerate only one such event originating from your account. If there is a second occurrence, we will unsubscribe the offending account from the NetCAT program immediately.
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