Project Plan For Dali Java Persistence Tools, version 2.1

Introduction

The Web Tool Platform (WTP) project provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools to build Web and Java EE applications. This plan documents a mid-train release of Dali, but maintains consistency with WTP-Galileo milestones. Dali will also carry forward with the Galileo milestones and release Dali 2.2 with WTP 3.1. This plan will be updated after the release of 2.1 to appropriately describe the Galileo based release (2.2).

Release Deliverables

  • WTP non-SDK package
  • WTP SDK Package
  • WST non-SDK package
  • WST SDK Package
  • The Eclipse IDE for JEE Developers package

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Release Milestones

Dali 2.1 Milestones are based on the early Galileo milestone +2 dates. The M4 Galileo date will roughly line up with our 2.1 GA.

M18/22/2008

M1 milestone

M210/03/2008

M2 milestone.

M311/07/2008

M3 milestone

RC112/05/2008

RC1 milestone.Project lead approval required

RC212/12/2008

RC2 milestone.Project lead approval

GA12/19/2009

GA

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Target Environments

WTP will support the platforms certified by the Eclipse Platform project. For a list of platforms supported in Dali 2.1, see Eclipse Target Operating Environments

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Internationalization

Internationalization and Localization will be supported.

  • Internationalization (I18N)

    Each project should be able to work in an international environment, including support for operating in different locales and processing/displaying international data (dates, strings, etc.).

  • Localization

    Each project should provide an environment that supports the localization of the technology (i.e. translation). This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring that strings are externalized for easy translation.

    • Where possible, projects should use an open and transparent process to create, maintain and deliver language packs translated into multiple languages in a timely manner. The primary languages to consider are: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish.

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Compatibility with Previous Releases

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Themes and Priorities

Themes and their priorities communicate the main objectives of the project and their importance. The following themes are derived from those defined by the Eclipse Requirement council for the Eclipse Galileo release and from the WTP 3.0 release themes. These will be prioritized based on the community feedback. New themes could be synthesized from the requirements submitted by the community.

The sections to follow defines the plan items in the Dali Java Persistence Tools project. The plan items are grouped under the respective themes where applicable. Each plan item corresponds to a new feature, API or some apsects of the project that needs to be improved. A plan item has an entry in the Eclipse Bugzilla system that has a detailed description of the plan item. Not all plan items represent the same amount of work; some may be quite large, others, quite small. Although some plan items are for work that is more pressing than others, the plan items appear in no particular order. See the corresponding bugzilla items for up-to-date status information on ongoing work and planned delivery milestones.

Ease of Use

Features provided by WTP should be simple to use for users with widely-varying backgrounds and skill sets.

  • WTP User Interface should be consistent and should follow the Eclipse User Experience Guidelines.
  • Usability and Accessibility reviews should be done for the most common task flows. Cheat Sheets should be provided to assist users in performing tasks
  • WTP should provide enhanced user documentation, tutorials, white papers, demonstrations.

  • Committed
    • Shortcut to new entity wizard in "New->" menu for JPA projects [243421] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • Ability to add DB driver library to project build path on project creation [242594] (target milestone: 2.1 M2)
    • EclipseLink persistence.xml Logger could have 'Browse...' button [228090] (target milestone: 2.1 M2)
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Support for EclipseLink

Specific tooling support for the EclipseLink runtime

  • Committed
    • [EclipseLink] Support for PrivateOwned [238441] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for JoinFetch [238455] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for Mutable [238458] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for @Cache and @ExistenceChecking [239137] (target milestone: 2.1 M2)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for Converter java annotations [239163] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for ChangeTracking [240036] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for ReadOnly [240038] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for Customizer [240042] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] eclipselink-orm.xml support for Cache and ExistenceChecking [245429] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for Converters in eclipselink-orm.xml [246120] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for Converter java annotations at the type level [249173] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Validation for Converter converter class [249501] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for customizer element in eclipselink-orm.xml file [250019] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] default 1-1 and 1-m mappings [237657] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for PrivateOwned in the eclipselink-orm.xml [248756] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for join-fetch in the eclipselink-orm.xml [249055] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for mutable in the eclipselink-orm.xml [249106] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support a repository of converters for name selection and validation [249505] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for read-only in the eclipselink-orm.xml file [250017] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] Support for change-tracking in eclipselink-orm.xml [250304] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • [EclipseLink] needs persistence.xml editor support for eclipselink.temporal.mutable [228042] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Generic JPA Support

Following are plan items that represent core JPA support or items that are not yet categorized into a theme.

  • Committed
    • Case of database objects is ignored [242321] (target milestone: 2.1 M2)
    • API enhancement request for org.eclipse.jpt.db.Column [248031] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
    • Support for multiple mapping files (orm.xml) in a persistence unit [220395] (target milestone: 2.1 M3)
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • No items.

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Appendix References

  1. The general WTP plan can be found here.

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