Chris,
We came up with an initial mission statement for e4 at the
summit… it was for e4 to be the next generation platform for pervasive,
component-based applications and tools.
Cheers,
Kenn
Hussey
Program Manager, EA/Studio
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[mailto:eclipse-incubator-e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher
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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:40 AM
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Subject: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] mission statement
Hi all,
I've been following this mailing list for a while and I'll be honest, I'm still
not clear what E4 is trying to achieve at a high level though I can see there
are lots of great ideas being bantered around, plus I've talked to a few of you
about how E4 might share some goals with the Solstice platform that I developed
for Arum Systems.
Today I read this article:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/e4-summit
The linked article implies that E4 is about making the IDE deployable over web
and seems to be the perception that the community is starting to develop.
I feel that this is certainly part of it, but to me it is more about giving RCP
additional options for which platforms they can target, web being one of
them. The IDE is an RCP application after all, so showing that it can be
deployed on the web is an obvious demonstration, but might be confusing the
community slightly.
In addition to this E4 also seems to be about adding new features and
rationalising the great features that have already been added to the Eclipse
platform to date.
The Vision page actually appears to answer some of the points I'm raising, but
perhaps it needs a bit more visibility. It would be good if someone could
write a brief mission statement on the main E4 page and link to the Vision page
for more information. I'm not volunteering! =P
Any other thoughts?
Cheers,
Chris
