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).

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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.
M209/29/2009
M311/10/2009
M412/15/2009
M502/02/2010
M603/16/2010
API freeze
M705/04/2010
Feature Freeze
RC105/18/2010
RC205/25/2010
RC306/01/2010
RC406/08/2010
Final06/15/2010
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.

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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.

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Compatibility with Previous Releases

Most of the 3.0 APIs will be compatible with ATL 3.1.

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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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Appendix Legal Notices

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