[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - August Oct 8, 2003 (component lea

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Discussion Topics
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None were proposed ahead of time. Make sure you read
the status below to see if it
contains information that you would like to discuss
at the meeting.

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 Outreach 
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Christophe had success at Webservices Edge 2003 West:
- 50 people at talk
- 30% already knew Eclipse/SWT
- cool PDA pocket PC/Windows demo

Dirk gave a talk at "IBM PartnerCamp" in
Cologne.
- Title: Contributing to Eclipse

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 Status
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Debug:
- bug fixing
- new feature: set exception breakpoint from the console.
The exception name at
  the top of a stack trace is assigned a hyperlink,
which will create an exception
  breakpoint when "clicked". The properties
dilaog will be opened for the newly
  created (or already existing) exception breakpoint.
- new feature: type qualification for duplicate variable
names. When variables
  with the same name are defined in a type hierarchy,
the Java debugger now
  qualifies variables with their declaring type,
in the variables view

Ant:
- bug fixing
- experimenting with a tree viewer UI for specifying
Ant runtime classpath (in HEAD):
  - the tree allows nodes to be used for "classpath
containers", which expand to show
    the entries within the containers. 
  - this way, one tree view can be used to specify
the Ant runtime classpath, rather
    than using two lists. 
  - the same technique may be applied to the
"Java classpath tab" to allow users to
    prepend and append to the default classpath.
The default classpath would appear
    as one "container" entry,
allow the user to easily insert or append extra entries,
    without losing the ability to track
the default classpath.

SWT:
- GTK performance improvements
- non-rectangular windows on all platforms
- polygon add/subtract for Region


Equinox:
- progress continues on performance and completeness
- drops are made available regularly (typically matching
integration builds) on the
  Equinox web pages
- we are on track to meet the M4 commitments
- latest startup numbers look something like
        equinox  
      11531 ms
        eclipse  
             10892 ms
  for a non-trivial but not massive (i.e., reasonably
typical) workspace.
- registry caching has been released and its savings
are NOT included in the above
  numbers.
- largest outstanding issue is multiversion support
- good progress on introducing incremental registry
building

JDT/UI:
- bug fixes
- local type filter for outline view
- two new quick fixes:
  - remove unneeded exception
  - remove unnecessary cast
- UI for new compiler options:
  - undocumented empty block
  - unqualified access to instance field
- change method signature improvements:
  - add/remove exceptions
- test cases for introduce parameter
- worked on XML expressions:
  - performance improvements
  - enabled contribution of customized expressions
- refactoring processors:
  - investigated how to further avoid unnecessary
evaluation of XML enablement "logic"

Search:
- worked on responsive text and Java search
- investigated in search participants (UI side)

Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- content assist in find/replace dialog for regular
expressions
- released first cut of generalized content assist
that is not confined to text viewers
- continued work on Javadoc spelling (not yet released)
- started reworking linked position management
- implemented and released "Open External File"
based on generalized file buffers
- added problems view and status line synchronization
on Java editor post selection events

Platform Core:
- Xerces:
  - will be recommending that people convert
code to using JAXP asap
- Responsiveness:
  - a dynamic team will be created to address
the issue of notification during operations
  - for now notifications will not happen during
execution of an operation which is
    locking the whole workspace (will wait
until the operation has completed)
- User Settings:
  - had a couple of meetings to better understand
the problem space and possible solution