Project Plan For Web Services Tools, version 3.1

Introduction

The Web Tool Platform (WTP) project provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools to build Web and Java EE applications. This document describes the features and the API set in the Web Services subproject for the Galileo release.

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

WTP Milestones follow the Eclipse release milestones by an offset of 2 as set by the Galileo release schedule.

M18/31/2008

M1 milestone

M210/01/2008

M2 milestone.

M311/12/2008

M3 milestone

M412/29/2008

M4 milestone

M52/06/2009

M5 milestone

M63/12/2009

M6 milestone.Feature complete, API and UI Freeze

M75/05/2009

M7 milestone. PMC review starts

RC15/19/2009

RC1 milestone.PMC approval required, 1 vote required

RC25/26/2009

RC2 milestone.PMC approval required, 2 votes required

RC36/02/2009

RC3 milestone.Document Freeze. PMC approval required, 3 votes required

RC46/09/2009

RC4 milestone.Only stop-ship defects, PMC approval required, 3 vote required

RC56/16/2009

RC5 milestone.Only stop-ship defects, PMC approval required, 3 vote required

GA6/26/2009

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 WTP 3.1, 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 Web Services 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
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • Save Web services wizard settings [242462] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Avoid showing infrastructure methods in the sample JSP [249120] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Need way to create pure Java project from the wizard [172059] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • generating a WS-I report from eclipse [74931] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Improve the WSDL editor usability and consistency [255182] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Extensibility

Improve extensibility of the Web services tools.

  • Committed
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • Provide extensible discovery mechanisms [204155] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Implement a mechanism via which a web service runtime influences projects creation within web service wizards [241212] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Enable the Web services tools to respect the "wksp:" protocol [242440] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Web services Ant file extension should respect Web services runtime preference [242696] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Provide extender a way to describe a Web service runtime [247729] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Web Service Publication page mentions a uddi test registry which doesnt exist [141834] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Refactor WS-I analyzer to remove hardcoded artifact types [137763] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Add extension points to org.eclipse.wst.wsi for implementations of other WS-I profile validators [138379] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Small change to conformance report XML file [149062] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Axis2

Support for Axis2 Web services tools.

  • Committed
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • Axis2: Support import of AAR [168937] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Axis2: Support the export of AAR [168938] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Axis2: Support hot deployment and hot update of Axis2 Web service [168939] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Axis2: Support XMLBeans data binding [196954] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Axis2: Support the creation of EJB Web service [241083] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Axis2: Support creating Axis2 Web service client into Java projects [249922] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Other

Following are plan items that are not yet categorized into a theme.

  • Committed
    • Port WS-I message validator to the new validator framework [234537] (target milestone: 3.1 M4)
    • Update the WS-I validator to use WSDL4J 1.5.1 [252258] (target milestone: 3.1 M4)
  • Proposed
    • Ant task should reuse command fragment and mapping from wizard [249132] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Use project creation operations to create projects [242615] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Add support for updated JEE facets on EARs and modules [245537] (target milestone: 3.1)
    • Remove unnecessary UI dependencies from org.eclipse.jst.ws.consumption [242635] (target milestone: 3.1)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

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Appendix References

  1. The general WTP plan can be found here.

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