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    <apidef name="settings_spi">Settings SPI</apidef>
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    <apidef name="settings_api">Settings API</apidef>
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    <change id="method.factory">
        <api name="settings_api"/>
        <summary>Instances may have factory methods</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="40"/>
        <date day="15" month="3" year="2013"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" deletion="no" deprecation="no" modification="yes" semantic="compatible" source="compatible"/>
        <description>
            No need for the instances to have default constructor anymore.
            One can tell the system to use different factory method.
        </description>
        <class package="org.netbeans.api.settings" name="FactoryMethod"/>
        <issue number="227050"/>
    </change>
    <change id="private.factories">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Factory methods can be private</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="29"/>
        <date day="30" month="11" year="2010"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" deletion="no" deprecation="no" modification="yes" semantic="compatible" source="compatible"/>
        <description>
            To be consistent with behavior of methodvalue attribute of
            <a href="@org-openide-filesystems@/org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html">XMLFileSystem</a>,
            now the factory methods referenced from settings files can be <code> private static</code>
            as well.
        </description>
    </change>
    <change id="readResolveBehaviour">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>readProperties can designate its replace</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="18"/>
        <date day="10" month="1" year="2009"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" deletion="no" deprecation="no" modification="yes" semantic="compatible" source="compatible"/>
        <description>
            Semantics of <code>readProperties</code> method has been extended
            to allow the method to return an object. Read
            <a href="@TOP@/org/netbeans/spi/settings/package-summary.html#xmlprops">more</a>.
        </description>
        <issue number="155962"/>
    </change>
    <change id="convert.as.javabean">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>@ConvertAsJavaBean annotation</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="20"/>
        <date day="7" month="8" year="2009"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" deletion="no" deprecation="no" modification="yes" semantic="compatible" source="compatible"/>
        <description>
            Easy way to use JavaBean's archiver for persistence of objects.
        </description>
        <class package="org.netbeans.api.settings" name="ConvertAsJavaBean"/>
        <issue number="169620"/>
    </change>
    <change id="convertor.propertyannotation">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>@ConvertAsProperties annotation</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="18"/>
        <date day="10" month="1" year="2009"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description>
            Human friendly way to register XML property based convertor via
            the <code>@ConvertAsProperties</code> annotation.
        </description>
        <class package="org.netbeans.api.settings" name="ConvertAsProperties"/>
        <issue number="155962"/>
    </change>
    <change id="convertor.recognize.xml">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Allow convertors to recognize .xml files in specially attributed folders.</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="17"/>
        <date day="28" month="11" year="2008"/>
        <author login="saubrecht"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description>
            If a folder in SFS has attribute <code>recognizeXML=true</code> then
            Convertors will attempt to process also files with .xml extension.
        </description>
        <issue number="154028"/>
    </change>
    <change id="ignore.removed.classes">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Ignore settings for intentionally removed classes.</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="13"/>
        <date day="22" month="7" year="2008"/>
        <author login="jskrivanek"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description>
            To prevent ClassNotFoundException while loading *.settings where
            intentionally removed class is either in &lt;instance class="..."/&gt;
            or &lt;serialdata class="..."&gt; it is possible to declare such
            class in <code>META-INF/netbeans/translate.names</code>. If class name
            maps to empty string, it is ignored. E.g.:<br/><br/>
            <code>org.mypackage.OldClass=</code>
        </description>
        <issue number="137240"/>
    </change>
    <change id="support.Lookups.forPath">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Provides support for <code>Lookups.forPath</code></summary>
        <version major="1" minor="13"/>
        <date day="17" month="4" year="2007"/>
        <author login="jtulach"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description> 
            Provides support for <a href="@org-openide-util-lookup@/org/openide/util/lookup/Lookups.html#forPath(java.lang.String)">Lookups.forPath(String)</a>
            method in order to replace now deprecated <a href="@org-openide-loaders@/org/openide/loaders/FolderLookup.html">FolderLookup</a>.
        </description>
        <issue number="98426"/>
    </change>
    <change id="settings.subclasses">
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Added new attribute for provider registration - settings.subclasses</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="12"/>
        <date day="9" month="5" year="2006"/>
        <author login="dstrupl"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description> New file attribute can be used if the registered convertor
            is capable of handling subclasses of the registered class. The
            attribute name is "settings.subclasses" and it can be set on
            the same file object under "xml/memory" as "settings.providerPath".
            The value of the attribute must be boolean. Defaults to false.
        </description>
        <issue number="65950"/>
    </change>
    <change>
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Added DOMConvertor supporting composed content</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="1"/>
        <date day="22" month="8" year="2002"/>
        <author login="jpokorsky"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description> Allow to reuse already written convertors 
            by newly created ones to facilitate a storing of complex objects.  
        </description>
        <class package="org.netbeans.spi.settings" name="DOMConvertor"/>
        <issue number="26284"/>
    </change>
    <change>
        <api name="settings_spi"/>
        <summary>Provide context to convertors</summary>
        <version major="1" minor="2"/>
        <date day="3" month="9" year="2002"/>
        <author login="jpokorsky"/>
        <compatibility addition="yes"/>
        <description> Get a context associated with the reader. 
            It can contain various info like a file location of the read object etc.
        </description>
        <class package="org.netbeans.spi.settings" name="Convertor"/>
        <class package="org.netbeans.spi.settings" name="DOMConvertor"/>
        <issue number="26076"/>
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