[wtp-dev] Minutes of the WTP Status Telecon, 2006-07-27

[Jeffrey Liu <jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See WTP Status Telecons [1] for more
information. 

[1] http://eclipse.org/webtools/development/status-telecons/index.html


Attendees

Amy Wu
Arthur Ryman
David Williams 
Jeffrey Liu 
John Lanuti 
Kate Price
Kathy Chan 
Keith Chong 
Larry Dunnell 
Larry Issac
Lawrence Mandel 
Nitin Dahyabhai 
Konstantin Komissarchik
Rob Frost 
Tim Deboer 
Tim Wagner
Ted Bashor 

1. Action Items [1] - Jeffrey Liu

ID	Sev	Pri	Plt	Assignee	Status	Resolution	TargetM	Summary
148681	nor	P3	PC	wst.wsi-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx	NEW		---	[action] Create a test plan for the wst.wsi component
149750	nor	P3	PC	jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx	NEW		---	[action] [performance] Some J2EE performance testcases ar...

2 bugs found. 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=casesubstring&short_desc=%5Baction%5D&product=Web+Tools&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

2. WTP 1.0.3 Status -
David Williams 

Remaining 1.0.3 bugs [1]

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=WebTools&product=Web+Tools&target_milestone=1.0.3+M103&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

David - Some problems with update jars, should be able
to resolve soon. Will announce it once this is completed. Will also announce
there's no more planned maintenance release for the 1.0 stream.

3. WTP 1.5.1 Build Status - David Williams 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/WTP_Release_1.5.x_Maintenance_Plan_and_Policies

David - Smoke test the latest I-build, there's still one
failing JUnit test.

Rob - We added some test specific logic to wait for a
job, and it caused the test to fail. This is a test bug, not a bug in the
code.

John - We will fix the test failure and rebuild.

3.1 Hot Bugs [1] - Jeffrey Liu 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=%5Bhotbug%5D&classification=WebTools&product=Web%20Tools&target_milestone=1.5.1%20M151&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

3.2 Hot Bugs Requests [1] - Jeffrey Liu 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=%5Bhotbug_request%5D&classification=WebTools&product=Web%20Tools&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

4. Java VM levels in WTP 2.0 - Tim Wagner

• Implementations in the “common” component will be restricted to 1.4.x VM levels, which implies Java 1.4 language features (no Java 5 features, such as generics). However, developers can request permission of the PMC to use Java 5 language features on a plugin-by-plugin basis.
• All other components in WTP are free to use Java 5 language features, and WTP as a project will require a Java 5-level VM in the 2.0 (“Europa”) release and will need to be compiled with a Java 5-level compiler.

Maintenance releases on the 1.x lines (1.5.1,
1.5.2, etc.) are unchanged – they are still restricted to Java 1.4 language
features and must compile and run on a Java 1.4 JDK/VM.

5. Performance - Jeffrey Liu 

Areas where we want performance improvements:

- Large workspace, lots of EJBs
- WS-I test tools
- Full build, couple of projects with random stuff are
taking twice as slow as 1.0.2
- Project creation, in particular, the j2ee web facet
- Builds (validators)
- Publish, calculating the delta changes

David - Eclipse has some infrastructure in place that
allows you to inline some statements in your code that can be enabled by
an option. We can measure performance of extensions that adopters add (ex.
facets). Problems will be written to the log file. We can take advantage
of this.

6. Other Business - Open 

Arthur - We added Dita support in the last release. However,
it's half integrated because developers need to run a tool to generate
the HTML files before committing into CVS.

Arthur - David and Kate will pair up with the Dita open
toolkit team to integrated the HTML generation into the WTP build.

Jeffrey Liu
IBM Rational Software
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