Hi Doug,
Here are a very
quick overview, and buzzword answers to the questions you raised for the
press text. I hope that's about what you
need?
Target Management
Project
The
Target Management Project is creating frameworks and a consistent UI for
accessing remote compute resources from Eclipse. The current code base (Remote
Systems Explorer, RSE) supports remote file, shell and process access through a
supplied Java based agent, or standard protocols like FTP and secure shell
(ssh). Adopters are currently writing extensions to bring their own proprietary
protocols into the framework for accessing devices like hardware debuggers. A
1.0 release is planned for October 20, a functional complete milestone (M3) is
planned for June 30. A 2.0 release shall be aligned with Eclipse 3.3 in June
2007.
For the 2.0 release planning and
the longer term future, the TM project participants are dealing with
advanced extensions to the framework in various technology sub-groups (see
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/DSDP/TM). Active discussions are also going on for
collaboration with other Eclipse Projects, especially the CDT project, the
Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF), the
Parallel Tools Platform (PTP), and the Eclipse Platform/Team group. A
comprehensive document outlining the use-cases and applicability of the Target
Management Project is available from the "Getting Started" area on the Project
Website at http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm .
active project participants:
* IBM - 3 committers
+ 1 contributor, core RSE development
* Windriver - 1 committer, contributed
ssh services, lots of testing, project lead and communications
* PalmSource -
contributed CDT Launch
* Symbian - bugfixes, about to contribute
zeroconf-discovery
* PTP Project/LANL - testing on Macintosh, EFS,
ssh
active adopters:
* Freescale - writing
proprietary wizards for JTAG on RSE
* Accelerated Technology - about to write
proprietary Services for JTAG on RSE
* Montavista
*
Siemens
features committed to CVS:
* Remote file system access
through ssh, ftp or dstore protocols
* Remote shell (command) access through
ssh or dstore protocols
* Remote process access through dstore protocol on
Linux
* dstore protocol implementation and agent for remote
search, remote archive exploring, remote process and other
pluggable miners
* CDT Remote Launch Integration Example
* Common UI
- Single consistent view, including filters
* Team sharing of connection and
filter definitions
* Framework for plugging in custom protocols, services and
subsystems
what features are coming next:
* user-defined menus and actions for instant access to remote programs
*
import/export wizards for fast remote file
transfer
* Jakarta Commons/Net integration for FTP, Telnet
* Bring
documentation/examples up-to-date
release plans:
* 1.0 release planned for
October 20
** M3 milestone (June 30) to be feature complete
* 2.0 release
planned with Eclipse 3.3 June 2007
recruiting efforts:
* A lot of companies is already active
on the TM project, we continue to lower the bar for using and extending the
RSE
* Communications with other Eclipse projects, e.g.
Platform/Team, TPTP and WTP. They all have some need for remote system
access.
* RSE ssh tools will be useful for every Eclipse committer,
we want to give simple access through an update site (and
announce
publicly among all committers) our M3 milestone end of
june
quotation from the project lead:
"The real benefit of RSE is that it
gathers lots of totally heterogeneous systems and subsystems under a single
consistent view."
Hi
PMC,
I am now setting up press contacts
for the week of June 19 to provide an update on DSDP. I would like to
talk further about release plans, features, and anything else you’d like me to
discuss.
At our last meeting, we agreed
that each project lead will provide a press script the first or second week of
June. It would be great to get those sometime next week.
Basically, I need talking points on your project…things you would like the
wider community to know about. Some examples:
- active project
participants
- features committed to
CVS
- what features are coming
next
- release
plans
- recruiting
efforts
- maybe a quotation from the
project lead plugging your project
Please let me know whether or not
you can send something next week. I don’t want to schedule a lot of
interviews if I don’t have enough content.
Thanks,
Doug
