Introduction

This document lists changes made to the External Execution API.


Index of APIs

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.extexecution > 1.20

Changes by affected class

org.netbeans.api.extexecution.ExecutionDescriptor

org.netbeans.api.extexecution.ExternalProcessSupport

org.netbeans.spi.extexecution.destroy.ProcessDestroyPerformer


Details of all changes by API and date


External Execution API

New API method to avoid reset of custom IO

Feb 17 '10; API spec. version: 1.20; affected top-level classes: ExecutionDescriptor; made by: phejl; issues: #180459
Added configuration method to ExecutionDescriptor to make reset of IO optional for custom IO.

Published as a stable API

Nov 20 '08; API spec. version: 1.13; made by: phejl
Published as a stable API. Refactored to API packages.

Initial version released

Jul 1 '08; API spec. version: 1.6; made by: phejl
First initial release of the External Execution API.

Configurable charset for process streams

Apr 7 '08; API spec. version: 1.14; affected top-level classes: ExecutionDescriptor; made by: phejl; issues: #161607
Added charset() method to ExecutionDescriptor to configure the charset used to decode process streams.

External Execution Process Destroy SPI

New SPI for improved external process termination

Jul 1 '09; API spec. version: 1.16; affected top-level classes: ExternalProcessSupport ProcessDestroyPerformer; made by: mkleint; issues: #138116
Added API/SPI support to kill the whole process tree on Process.destroy().

Built on December 5 2011.  |  Portions Copyright 1997-2011 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.