[eclipse.org-committers] Project Declarations for Enablement, RSP, and L

[Anne Jacko <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Project Declartion for Enablement

The Project Management Committee for the Eclipse Data Tools Platform  
(DTP)
declares its intention to propose a new project within DTP (http:// 
www.eclipse.org/proposals/enablement/). This project, named  
“Enablement,” will serve as a gathering point of community support  
for DTP frameworks and tools. Committers on the Enablement project  
will provide components leveraging DTP extension points and API for  
specialized uses. For example, a vendor joining the Enablement  
project might provide components supporting their particular data  
source using DTP.  The deliverables from Enablement will be  
distributed separately from the  core DTP frameworks and tools. Thus,  
the Enablement project will benefit the
Eclipse community at large by providing broad and deep support for   
DTP for
specific targets.
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Project Declaration for Rich Server Platform (RSP)

A new project called "Rich Server Platform - User Interface Framework  
(RSP-UI)" has been proposed as part of the Eclipse Technology Project  
(http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/rsp/). Eclipse Rich Client Platform  
(Eclipse RCP) has been successfully established as an application  
platform for the client-side. With the recent acceptance of large  
parts of the OSGi specification as a JSR (291), widespread  
application of OSGi for server-side applications has become natural.  
Recently, the Equinox Incubator has begun applying the Eclipse/OSGi  
concepts to the server-side. This opens tremendous new possibilities  
for Eclipse as an application platform for the server-side. The  
Eclipse/OSGi development model, applied to the server-side, allows  
the creation of truly pluggable, componentized, server-side  
applications. Plug-ins can communicate at a logic layer with each  
other using established and tested methods, such as extension points  
and OSGi services. What is needed for the UI layer is a UI  
composition framework which we propose in the form of RSP-UI.
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Project Declaration for Eclipse on Linux (Linux Distro)

The Eclipse on Linux (Linux Distro) Project proposes the formation of  
an Eclipse on Linux Working Group (http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/ 
linux-distro/). The intent and goal of this working group would be to  
identify and address issues pertaining to the adoption of Eclipse on  
Linux, making Eclipse use on Linux more powerful and more widespread.  
While the Eclipse IDE has been widely adopted, it has not enjoyed  
particular success on the Linux platform.
The open source heritage of both Eclipse and Linux would lead one to  
assume that Eclipse on Linux would be highly successful, but this has  
not been the case. An organization focused on identifying and  
addressing the pertinent issues could have a great positive impact on  
the adoption of Eclipse on Linux.

Anne Jacko
Assistant to Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Eclipse Foundation
emo@xxxxxxxxxxx