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Bug 174804 - Simplify common uses of Node
Summary: Simplify common uses of Node
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174805
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Nodes (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: apireviews
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Reported: 2009-10-17 09:30 UTC by _ tboudreau
Modified: 2009-10-17 10:20 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description _ tboudreau 2009-10-17 09:30:24 UTC 
Per recent suggestion on dev@openide - the initial learning curve for Nodes is greater than it needs to be for many common, simple uses.  The concept that a 
Node has a Children object and that both need to be implemented is more than a user really needs to know.

There are a number of other cases which require subclassing AbstractNode which
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2009-10-17 10:20:08 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 174805 ***