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This issue has two parts: - installing beans, - using beans. For installing beans, the new classpath API must be used in some cases (where FileObject.getPackageName was used). Also it's not clear whether or how global JARs for beans can be used further. For using beans, the main problem is in that .instance files (and InstanceDataObject) will be no longer usable. Some alternative needs to be developed. See issue 27123 for details.
Can you update keyword for planning, please?
We plan to keep the palette global, so not having project-specific content. Beans installed from JAR should remember the JAR file and it should be added to project resources automatically when the bean is used (in a form of given project). Beans added to palette from project explorer directly should remember the project they belong to and a warning should be shown if tried to be used in another project. To implement this, we need: - a new way of storing palette items (custom file type instead of .instance, keeping the JAR and project reference somehow), - being able to scan and modify resources of a project (to be able to add a JAR file).
As described in http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=619519&listName=nbdiscuss the current work on projects prototype has been stopped.