Composer Plug-in SDK Release Notes

Copyright (C) 1997 Netscape Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Version 26
4/29/97
Jack Palevich x6701 palevich@netscape.com

Introduction

The Composer Plug-in SDK allows you to develop plug-ins for Netscape Composer. Please refer to the on-line documentation, the sample plugins, and the developer's guide for more information.

What's New

Version 26 (For Netscape Communicator 4.0PR4) Version 25 Version 24 (For Netscape Communicator 4.0 PR3) Version 23 Version 22 Version 21 Version 20 Version 19 Version 18 Version 17 Version 16 Version 15 Version 14 Version 13 Version 12 Version 11 Version 10 Version 9 Version 8 Version 7

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Notes

Plug-ins created with this API will work with Netscape Communicator b2. They will not work with Communicator pre-release 1, because that version of the Communicator uses an earlier version of the Composer Plug-in API. We are not supporting Composer Plugins on Communicator 4.0 pre-release 1.

Internationalization Issues

The intention is that you will use the Java 1.1 internationalization classes to internationalize your composer plug-in API. Unfortunately, Java 1.1 is still in beta, and so not all of the necessary classes are available for you to use. There are several issues here:
  1. The JDK 1.1 classes are still being defined, so they are buggy and their API may change.
  2. Most Java IDEs support JDK 1.0.2, and so do not contain any of the JDK 1.1 classes.
  3. Netscape Communicator version 4.0b2 doesn't have the full JDK 1.1 internationalization classes.
We suggest that you do the following: