[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - July 2, 2003

["Mike Wilson" <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Outreach:
- Andre went to Apple WWDC
  - Eclipse is most popular Java IDE on Mac
    - used by twice as many developers as
either JBuilder or NetBeans
    - users are impressed by recent speed
improvements
  - talked to Apple Engineers about 1.4.1 system
dialog issues -- solution now in the works
  - StyledText much faster on Panther+1.4.1
- Invited Talk at JavaTalks 2003, Siemens, Munich,
Germany
  - 150 people
  - good demo

Note to developers:
- Check out memory usage in R3.0 build
- got a report of significantly more memory in use
- please check for memory leaks
- one possibility: plugin classloaders holding ZIPs
open?

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Status
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Debug:
- extensible debug events - debug model implementions
can define their own event types
- concurrency:
  - process monitor (deamon waiting for process
to terminate) is now implemented with a Job
  - debug Plug-in's async exec queue is now implemented
with a Job
- "Collapse All" added to Variables and
Expressions views
- bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- user experience:
  - linked editing support for quick fixes and
quick assist
  - improved coexistence of quick assist and
quick fix (quick 
    assist is no longer blocked if quick
fix exists on same line).
- extend the Java family
  - refactoring participants
    - the refactoring wizard itself can
now be control via an 
      extension point
  - added extension points for quick fix and
quick assist
- code generation/refactoring:
  - create constructor from fields
  - started work on improved member sorting
  - worked on using type constraints for extract
interface
  - meeting with Frank Tip and Robert Fuhrer
from TC Watson on:
    - refactorings for JDK 1.5 features
(mainly generics) and concurrency
    - smell detection

JDT/Platform Text:
- user experience:
  - further improvements for the change bar vertical
ruler
  - choice selector for template/linked mode.
E.g., user can interactively
    choose between precomputed template
variable bindings
- introduced real post selection changed listener
support in TextViewer: 
  - improved behavior of outliner synchronization
while selecting text
- Java family:
  - implemented first examples for reconciling
pipeline
  - finished client code review

Help:
- dynamic help content support released
- working on providing shortcut keys for HTML dialogs
and forms of help UI

Update:
- implemented the early version of automatic updates
using job scheduling support from Core
- added support for parallel downloading of plugins
(within a feature)

PDE:
- finished implementation of the refurbished log view
- finished porting of the export plug-ins/features
wizard to be compatible with
  the new pde.build implementation.  (need
to synchronize with pde.build team when
  releasing the code)

Rel Eng:
- Mac OSX builds broken with new 3.0  build mechanism.

- tag and release tool was also broken, Dean is fixing
this today, should verify that
  build submissions are what you expect them
to be before tomorrow's rebuild