Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 23, 2005

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Equinox
========
- released the newly refactored runtime
complete with standalone registry, Jobs, etc.  Still some issues to
resolve but its looking good
- continued work on breaking up the
runtime
- working towards contribution of several
OSGi service implementations (HTTP, ConfigAdmin, Preferences, Log, ...)
- Server side incubator getting more
interesting
- Paying homage to the PDE team for
migrating people's launch configs for free
- Working with Maven and Geronimo teams
looking at OSGi integration strategies 

PDE Build
==========
- File encoding support
- starting work on access restrictions
at build time
- target JRE support

Mike Wilson/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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 Discussion Topics 
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UA: 
- 2.1 Backward Compatiblity:   
  - How long are we committed to maintaining it?

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 Status 
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Debug: 
- merged "flexible debug platform" support back to HEAD for integration
  build 
  - test pass and bug fixing for new support
- experimenting with textual display of runtime classpath on Classpath
tab 
- continued work to associate launch configs with resources
- bug fixing 

JDT UI: 
- refactorings: 
  - worked on update derived elements refactoring (local variables)
  - looked at performance issues in move static members
  - finished work on empty parent package and non-empty sub-package
    deletion features 
  - working implementation of refactoring-aware update based on team
    model support 
  - various improvements and optimizations of the refactoring history
- Clean Up action: 
  - wrote performance tests for clean-ups and improve performance
  - found more stable solution for clean up actions that interfere
with 
    work on the same region 
- new API: 
  - work in progress: import rewrite as API
  - JDT actions to work on non-Java elements: pluggable SelectionProvider
    for actions 
- JUnit: 
  - worked on model for JUnit view 
- make JDT .java agnostic 
  - updated jdt.ui code to work with complation units with file name
    suffix other than '.java' 
- miscellaneous: 
  - code review of Common Navigator framework and JDT extension
  - open type dialog now picks up current selection if it looks like
a 
    type name 
  - API discussions with JDT/Core 
  - bug fixing 

Platform/JDT Text: 
- started to investigate impact of StyledText changes
- bug fixing (including a 3.1.2 fix) 
- bug inbox tracking 
- military service 

JDT Core: 
- JavaCore#initializeAfterLoad(IProgressMonitor) used to 
  schedule a job to do its work. It now does it in the 
  same thread. Note this is not an API change as the spec 
  allows both scenarii. 
- DOM type bindings for generics got adjusted. There were 
  situations where a reference to a generic type from within 
  itself would expose the declared generic type binding, 
  instead of a parameterized type binding (using its own type 
  parameters as type arguments). This is now corrected, clients 
  should ensure they did not rely on the previous inconsistency 
  (note: no change was required from direct JDT dependents).
- added APIs on JavaCore to leverage support for Java-like
  file extensions (from the Java source content-type).
  @see JavaCore#getJavaLikeExtensions() 
  @see JavaCore#isJavaLikeFileName(String)
  @see JavaCore#removeJavaLikeExtension(String)
- working on builder integration of compiler participant 
  (enabling APT as preprocessor, but should also allow
   postprocessors) 
- working on more robust DOM AST. Tuning recovery to
  common cases, but could consider using syntax diagnosis
  to drive some recovery action. 
- working on null reference analysis. Reached code review
  stage. Code to be made available for M4.
- adding compiler support for StackMapTable attribute
  (Java SE 6 requirement) 
- working on model support for secondary types, tuning
  performance 
- working on providing additional element info on search
  match (e.g. local var decl if any, siblings in multi
  var decl if any) 
- bug fixing 

Platform UI: 
- bug fixing: 
  - problems with themes when using certain 2.0 workspaces in 3.1.X
  - preference leak testing 
  - problems view bugs 
  - logged performance bugs, some improvements made in performance
- builds: 
  - Platform UI has a bot machine that runs test builds and is downright
    friendly and helpful on IRC it needed some fixing up this
week to support 
    the new Bugzilla 2.20 etc. 
- Commands: 
  - working on legacy Action persistence parsing
- Common Navigator: 
  - port the ActionExpression enablement classes to 
    org.eclipse.core.expressions: 
    - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=115130 
  - update extension point schema doc for navigatorContent:
    - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=115123
- flexible workspaces: 
  - investigation into using more support in wizards etc.
- JFace: 
  - reviewed data binding API 
- logical model support: 
  - gathering editor opening requirements (see bug 42643)
  - worked on editor opening scenarios for Library example
- NL/Accessibility: 
  - Mac OS/X accessibility and NL investigation
- RCP: 
  - investigation into adding support for window types (aka personalities)
  - investigated whether Equinox refactoring will work for standalone
    JFace dependencies on runtime utility classes (looks good)
- tests: 
  - dynamic test synch problems 
- working sets: 
  - working set patches for other teams 
- general: 
  - working on more flexible trim support in the workbench
  - review of Tabbed Properties framework and example from WTP

User Assistance: 
- linkability: 
  - writing a first draft of a proposal for adding general-purpose
    linking capability that acts as a broker between link providers
and 
    consumers: 
    - the draft should be done by the end of this week
- solution guides: 
  - writing a first draft of a proposal to introduce high level UA
tool 
    (solution guide) that can guides through large tasks:
    - the draft should be done by the end of this week
- M4 planning 
- work continues on dynamic help content and search enhancements
- a solution for a problem where cheatsheets are blocked by modal dialogs
  is near completion (cheat sheets that reuse aux. help window)
- bug fixes 

PDE: 
- launching: 
  - support for new startup sequence due to refactored runtime
  - provide backward compatibility for pre-runtime-breakup targets
- participation in refactoring: 
  - manifest files will now be updated correctly when:
    - multiple packages/classes are moved in a single operation
    - a package and all its subpackages are renamed
- new pretty schema editor nearing completion:
  - in addition to being easy on the eyes, the editor will expose
    new important features; more details next week
- target management: 
  - relaxed the criteria to discard plugins/fragments when resolving
the 
    target platform 
  - this, for example, will allow you to see all platform-specific
    fragments on the target platform preference page when the
rcp delta 
    pack is installed 
- classpath computation: 
  - the "is this package coming from the host or the fragment?"
problem 
    has been solved 
  - the "imported package is split across multiple plug-ins"
problem 
    also solved 
- bug fixes 

Update: 
- verification and installation of bundles can now be done in the
  background 
- automatic server-side mirror support planned to come online this week
- bug fixes_______________________________________________
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