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IDE uses several ports and some external programs that also use ports. The most common scenario is that when user installs and then start IDE + java for the first time, a firewall dialog appears notifying about network communication required by processes netbeans, nbexec, java, emulator (mobile). It may be a good idea to have a dialog (or whatever) that would tell user that IDE needs to open some ports and offer a help with firewall configuration. Then it could initiate several test connections to show what types of connections. Users could create appropriate rules and test whether those rules are correct. I don't know how many users would be interested in such feature, thus I'd propose to get some more data and possibly include this in a usability study. Complete story [reported by Evan Adams]: 3) I double-clicked on the desktop icon and immediately two dialogs came up. The first one, so the one on the bottom, was from Windows: Windows Security Alert To help protect your computer, Windows Firewal blocked some features of this program. Do you want to keep blocking this program? Name: java Publisher: Unknown [Keep Blocking] [Unblock] [Ask Me Later] This is a new dialog that I'm seeing occassionally since I installed SP2 on WinXP. It's very annoying and does not give me much info to go on. It's saying that java is trying to do something the firewall does not like, presumably this is the IDE's autoupdate feature but, as a new user, how would I don't know. It would be really good to find a way to prevent this dialog from appearing at all. It requires the user to know that the "java" executable refers to NB and, as a new user, I have no idea what sort of access NB is doing so I'm in no position to answer the question. Is there at least a way to set the Publisher field? The second dialog is from NB saying: Settings created by a previous version of the IDE were found on your system at <pathname>. Do you want to import them? [Yes] [No] Nothing really wrong with this dialog except that it comes up over the firewall dialog. Maybe NB needs some special code to deal with the firewall question, before continuing. It is always a bad idea to have multiple dialogs come up at the same time. I answered Ask Me Later to the firewall question and no to the import question.
I would expect such a feature in new Plugin manager. Reassigning to "autoupdate"...
Plugin Manager doesn't care of Proxies. It's responsibility of Proxy Options.