Project Plan For SQL Dev Tools, version 1.7

Introduction
Release Deliverables
Release Milestones
Target Environments
Compatibility with Previous Releases
Themes and Priorities

Introduction

"Data Tools" is a vast domain, yet there are a fairly small number of foundational requirements when developing with or managing data-centric systems. A developer is interested in an environment that is easy to configure, one in which the challenges of application development are due to the problem domain, not the complexity of the tools employed. Data management, whether by a developer working on an application, or an administrator maintaining or monitoring a production system, should also provide a consistent, highly usable environment that works well with associated technologies.

The Data Tools Platform (DTP) project provides a set of frameworks and basic tools to enable data-centric development in a variety of data types, including databases (via JDBC) and ODA data sources (for BIRT reporting). The frameworks are open to allow common interfaces (both API and user interface) across different types of data.

DTP is broken into a number of sub-projects. This project plan focuses on the SQL Development Tools sub-project, which provides a set of frameworks and basic tools to handle management of database assets and SQL queries

Release Deliverables

DTP provides two main deliverables: one deliverable for developers, which includes source code, examples, and so on; and a user or runtime deliverable that just provides the basics for DTP use.

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Release Milestones

The DTP project delivers a set of components to ease connecting to and working with data sources. Primarily DTP focuses on database (SQL development) work and ODA data sources for BIRT reporting.

M3	11/5/2008	Release Train M3 +1 Date (M3 GA on 11/19/08) (Note that this will be the DTP 1.6.2 M1 build for now until we branch Galileo sometime the week of November 10th)
M4	12/17/2008	Release Train M4 +1 Date (M4 GA on 1/12/09)
M5	2/3/2009	Release Train M5 +1 Date (M5 GA on 2/16/09)
M6	3/16/2009	Release Train M6 +1 Date (M6 GA on 3/23/09)
M7	5/4/2009	Release Train M7 +1 Date (M7 GA on 5/11/09)
RC1	5/18/2009	Release Train RC1 +1 Date (RC1 GA on 5/25/09)
RC2	5/25/2009	Release Train RC2 +1 Date (RC2 GA on 6/1/09)
RC3	6/1/2009	Release Train RC3 +1 Date (RC3 GA on 6/8/09)
RC4	6/8/2009	Release Train RC4 +1 Date (RC4 GA on 6/15/09)
RC5	6/15/2009	Release Train RC5 +1 Date (Galileo GA on 6/26/09)

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Multi-page SQL Schema Editor Framework and exemplary implementations for Sybase ASA in enablement project(pending resource availability)

The following items should be considered...

Multi-page Schema Editor GUI Framework and the generic preference pages
Concrete exemplary schema implementations for Sybase ASA including the following (pending resource availability)
- Table Schema Editor
- Index Editor
- Stored Procedure editor
- User Defined Function editor
- User Defined Type editor
- Constraint/Rule editor