[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - May 21, 2003

["Mike Wilson" <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Status (from those who sent it to me (/em sighs))
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JDT UI:
- a "Show hierarchy" action that pops-up
a lightweight dialog
  that enables quick navigation up and down the
method hierarchy of 
  the selected element in the editor.
- continued progress on the refactoring participant
support infrastructure.
- JUnit usability improvements, added support to scroll
through failures.

Platform/JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- continued work on improved smart typing
  - released Smart Semicolon
  - Smart Semicolon is the first typing action
to consider the Smart/Raw typing mode
  - placing of closing '}'
- continued investigation to improve information presentation
  - first user testing for the improved hover
information presentation
  - appearance and behavior of change bar vertical
ruler


Debug:
- continuing work on:
  - extensible launch modes: the debug platform
now defines a "profile" mode
    in addition to "run" &
"debug"
  - variables for use in launch configurations
(i.e. string substitutions)
  - JSR045 client

Core:
- put 3 bug fixes into 2.1.1 stream
- released new Xerces (4.0.13) into both 2.1.1 and
3.0 streams