swingx components in Netbeans plugins

[v***@gmail.com]

Can I use SwingX components inside my netbeans plugins ? If I do, will
my plugin stand the test of time ? I mean, is there a possibility of
Netbeans stopping compatibility with SwingX ?

[Matthias Bläsing]

Hey,

Post by v***@gmail.com
Can I use SwingX components inside my netbeans plugins ? If I do, will
my plugin stand the test of time ? I mean, is there a possibility of
Netbeans stopping compatibility with SwingX ?

there is a swingx module (libs.swingx) - but it has no public api - so
you'd need an implementation dependency to use it. My take: don't use
it!

For the mantis integration plugin I bundled swingx into the module.
While this bumps the size of the plugin it doesn't give as much
headaches.

I you want to use swingx in multiple modules: Write a library wrapper
and let your modules depend on that, this way there is a moderate size
increase, but you have the control.

HTH

Matthias