Project Plan For ATL - Atlas Transformation Language, version 3.1
Introduction
This document lays out the feature and API set for the
3.1 release of the ATL project, of the Eclipse M2M Project.
Release Deliverables
The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:
- ATL source code release, available as versions tagged "R3_1" in the project's CVS repository.
- M2M ATL SDK (includes runtime and tooling components, with sources and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
- M2M ATL runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
- M2M ATL examples (downloadable and update site).
- M2T ATL tests (downloadable and update site).
Release Milestones
Release milestones occur at roughly 6 week intervals
and follow the Platform release milestone by the Helios-established +2 delta interval.
The final ATL 3.1 release will available simultaneously
with the 3.6 release of the Platform and all the other Helios projects.
M2 | 09/29/2009 | |
M3 | 11/10/2009 | |
M4 | 12/15/2009 | |
M5 | 02/02/2010 | |
M6 | 03/16/2010 | API freeze |
M7 | 05/04/2010 | Feature Freeze |
RC1 | 05/18/2010 | |
RC2 | 05/25/2010 | |
RC3 | 06/01/2010 | |
RC4 | 06/08/2010 | |
Final | 06/15/2010 |
ATL will produce maintenance releases to align with the Galileo Service Releases
which includes the Eclipse Platform's 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 releases.
ATL may produce additional interim maintenance releases.
Maintenance releases will only be published if they contain new fixes.
Friday, September 26, 2008 - ATL 3.0.1 maintenance release for Galileo Service Release 1.
Friday, February 28, 2009 - ATL 3.0.2 maintenance release for Galileo Service Release 2.
Version numbers are subject to change should there be be any additional maintenance releases.
Target Environments
In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets
reasonably
current versions of the underlying operating environments.
The ATL
project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which
are
mostly "pure" Java. The 3.5 release of the Eclipse Platform
Project
is written and compiled against version 1.4 of the Java
Platform
APIs, and targeted to run on version 1.4 of the Java Runtime
Environment, Standard Edition. ATL will target the same Java version
as the platform.
Internationalization
The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for
internationalized
products. The user interface elements provided by
the Eclipse SDK
components, including dialogs and error messages, are
externalized.
The English strings are provided as the default
resource bundles. As
a result, the ATL project will provide English
strings in its
default bundles and be localized to a subset of those
locales
offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to
indicate which
locales will be provided and the time frame for
availability.
Compatibility with Previous Releases
Most of the 3.0 APIs will be compatible with ATL 3.1.
Themes and Priorities
Utilities
- Committed
- Proposed
- ATL Debugger improvement: EMFVM compatibility, presentation
- ATL profiler integration
- Transformation plugins export feature
- Deferred
ATL Editor
- Committed
- Proposed
- Content assist improvement (templates, OCL expressions)
- New features like "open declaration"
- Syntax colors improvement
- Outline simplification
- Deferred
ATL Language
- Committed
- Proposed
- Refining mode improvement: element deletion support, refining on composite models
- Syntax shortcuts implementation
- Deferred
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