Last revised 2009/01/09

This plan is under continuous refinement. Please send comments about this plan to the jdt-core-dev@eclipse.org developer mailing list.

Overall Goals

This section lists the goals for Eclipse 3.5 for the JDT Core component as listed on the Eclipse Project 3.5 Draft Plan.

[1] Performance. Monitor overall performance and memory consumption which includes the addition of new performance tests for new features.

[2] Reliability. Provide APIs for clients where needed and fix critical bugs.

[3] Keep Eclipse vibrant and attractive. Deliver new productivity features like easier project setup.

Compiler

• [3] warning to detect comparisons between identical expressions (bug 115814) [philippe]

General Items

• [2] 3.4.1 maintenance work [all]
• [2] bug fixing [all]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Compiler

• [3] warning to signal absence of synchronized modifier when overriding a synchronized method (bug 239066) [philippe]
• [3] marker comment ($FALL-THROUGH$) for silencing compiler diagnosis for switch case falling through next case (bug 245257) [philippe]

General Items

• [2] 3.4.1 maintenance work [all]
• [2] bug fixing [all]
• [3] 3.5 planning [jerome, philippe]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Build path

• [3] chained jars on the buildpath (bug 198572) [jerome]
• [3] support '..' in classpath entries (bug 57732) [jerome]

Code assist

• [3] add cancelation support for code completion (bug 247941) [david]
• [3] navigate to classes in workspace even if not on classpath (bug 232880) [david]

DOM

• [2] make NodeFinder API (bug 53024) [olivier]

Model

• [2] improve NamingConventions (bug 38111, bug 85946) [david]

Performance

• [1] identify big performance issues that cannot be handled in M7 [jerome, frederic]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Builder

• [1] improve performance when adding a new top-level package (bug 207093) [kent]

Compiler

• [2] warning to signal presence of dead code (bug 48399) [philippe]

Formatter

• [3] formatter should preserve existing line delimiters (bug 198074) [frederic]

Java model

• [1] memory optimizations (bug 227986, bug 257869) [jerome]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Code assist

• [3] constructor completion (bug 6930) [david]

Compiler

• [2] cleanup lookup semantics (get rid of tiebreak method, add a pointer to overriden method etc...) [kent]

Search

• [2] SearchPattern: provide way to get the matching regions (bug 218605) [frederic]

General Items

• [2] (investigate) ability to provide preprocessed source code to compiler (bug 116143) [kent]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Tests

• [2] improve code coverage in regression tests [all]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

Performance

• [1] investigate and improve performance accross JDT Core [all]

Permanent Items

• bugzilla inbox tracking
• bug fixing (fixed) (all) (unresolved) (resolved)
• watch performance tests

• find a bug report
• report a bug