14 July 2009. THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT YET OFFICIAL.
The TmL project provides support to integrate device and emulators into the Eclipse IDE and test enterprise applications using a simulated end-to-end environment.
The TmL project currently is the incubation phase. the most recent release, version 0.3, coincided with the Galileo simultaneous release. The TmL project is divided into these components:
The project has received contributions from MontaVista and Nokia in the past year. There is interest in the project from Symbian, ACCESS, and Palm Inc.
Currently, engineers at Eldorado assigned to the project are Daniel Franco and Mauren Brenner. Eric Cloninger of Motorola is the lead for the project. Christian Kurzke of Motorola operates as the architectural advisor.
Notes:
All stand-alone components will have an integration part
that makes them work inside the TmL framework. If
necessary each stand-alone component could be used
outside of the TmL.
The TmL team has made 3 releases to date. These releases are used by several Motorola MOTODEV Studio products and may be used in upcoming Montavista products. The TmL team will release TmL 0.4.0 in 4Q2009, following the release of Eclipse 3.5.1. This version will contain bug fixes and API additions.
The target date for availability of Tools for Mobile Linux 0.4 is:
The Tools for mobile Linux deliverables will be tested and validated against a subset of the reference platforms listed in the Eclipse Platform 3.5 Project Plan (this list is updated over the course of the release cycle).
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Tools for mobile Linux Reference
Platforms
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| Operating system | OS version | Processor architecture | Window system | Java 2 Platform |
| Microsoft Windows | Vista SP1, XP SP2 | x86-32 | Win32 | Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Update 14 for Microsoft Windows |
| Microsoft Windows | XP SP2 | x86-32 | Win32 | IBM 32-bit SDK for Windows, Java 2 Technology Edition 5.0, SR5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 5 | x86-32 | GTK | Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Update 14 for Linux x86 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | 10, SP2 | x86-32 | GTK | IBM 32-bit SDK for Linux on Intel architecture, Java 2 Technology Edition 1.4.2 SR7 |
| Ubuntu | 8.0.x (Hardy Heron) | x86-32 | GTK | -- |
| Apple Mac OS X ( not tested for TmL 0.3 ) | 10.5 | x86 | Carbon | Apple Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5, service release 4 |
TmL 0.1 and 0.2 will be delivered using English strings.
TmL 0.3 will be delivered using English strings stored in external resource bundles. Strings may be localized to another language for 0.3 as part of the Babel project.
TmL 0.4 will be delivered using English strings stored in external resource bundles.
API backward compatiblity between TML 0.1 to 0.2
The extension point org.eclipse.tml.device was changed to org.eclipse.tml.deviceType. The new extension allow to devices sharing services using the isAbstract option.
For API changes, Ramp Down Policies are at the links below.
Note: The TmL project team is working to move target milestones to coincide with the updated release schedule, as of September 22, 2008. The committed, proposed, and deferred items below will work once these changes are made.
The TmL project and the MTJ project have many overlapping objectives and results. Both projects take a subset of the mobile development task and provide tools for it based on the needs of Java ME or Linux developers.
In reality, both projects are creating general-purpose tools that could be used by all mobile developers if there were a place to put these tools. Toward that goal, we are looking to create a new project that contains the parts of TmL and MTJ that make sense for a common audience.
If the proposal is accepted, after TmL 0.4.0, no active development will occur in the TmL named branches, but in the new tree. The functionality will still exist, as will the TmL repositories, but no new development will occur inside the TmL repository.
Status: As of 16 July 2009, the documents to drive this are being circulated among interested parties.
Up until April 2008, the TmL team was working to make the original charter of TmL operational and usable in Motorola's MOTODEV products. No efforts were made to create an official release as there was no community interested in using it. In May 2008, the TmL team received its first outside code contribution, which brought us to the realization that we need to put what we have "to bed", as it were, and start planning for the future.
Status: As of 16 July 2009, the TmL team has made 3 public releases, including being on the Galileo Simultaneous Release. We consider this Theme to be completed successfully.
We wish to bring TmL into a mainstream project by being on the Galileo Simultaneous release. Toward this goal, we are getting build scripts running, creating update sites, planning milestones, and ensuring that the project is running as transparently as possible by transacting business in an open fashion, voting on project decisions via the portal, and conducting bi-weekly open meetings.
Status: As of 25 June 2009, the TmL team satisfied the requirements of the Eclipse Galileo train and shipped. We consider this Theme to be completed successfully.
Discussing the architecture of TmL during the open meeting calls, one of the contributors suggested a different way to structure the architecture of the TmL components to allow for more flexible adaptation by companies adopting the project in their own products. The result of these discussions is a restructuring of the underlying classes to meet this new architecture.
Status: As of 16 January 2009, these changes are in the 0.2 release of TmL. We consider this Theme to be completed successfully.
Common classes, logging utilities , i18n, documentation, core APIs
Device framework
Device Proxy
VNC Viewer and protocol
/proc filesystem