[wtp-dev] Our move to EMF 2.3 coming soon

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I propose this Friday, after we declare
this week's I-build, we should move to EMF 2.3. 

This will take some investigation and
"testing" to see what its impact would be. 

It will require to compile against 1.5,
which I think we can do with eclipse build directives and execution environments
.. since we use the JDT compiler) ... we don't have to 
change the actual VM on the build machine,
AFAIK.  BUT, we will likly want to keep 1.4 source compatibility turned
"on" (this is the part that needs investigation .. makes 
my head spin :) 

So ... would this effect the desired
JPA move to WTP builds? Do you have any particular requirement? 

For everyone else, I'd suggest two things:


at least try to run against an EMF 2.3
target in dev. environment in the next few days, see if they've broken
any APIs :) 

and two, change any EMF releated plugin
prereg's to use [2.2,2.4) so that our 2.0 stream can "work" with
either 2.2 or 2.4 ... well, whether or 
not it will may be another issue, but
I don't want the manifest spec to be the gating factor for now. 

Note this week's EMF 2.3 M3 won't really
have an Java 5 constructs in it yet (though they do spec Java 5 execution
environment). 
But they will start ot use generics
in 2.3 M4. 

Thanks,