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Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Jan 28, 2004

JDT/Core:
- Support for DOM comment is now available. All comments can be accessed.
   All Javadocs have associated tag structure, with references and bindings
where applicable.
- Compiler has now an option to avoid signaling unused thrown exception in
overriding methods.
- Initiated discussion on library support topic, comments to be appended to
bug (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=50461)
- Bug fixing




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 Discussion Topics
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 Outreach
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- Kai and Erich gave a talk at OOP in Munich about the
  Eclipse Ecosystem with a focus on using Eclipse for
  rich client apps.

EclipseCon:
- Join us for EclipseCon 2004:
  - February 2-5, 2004 in Anaheim, CA
  - http://www.eclipsecon.org/

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 Status
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Debug:
- Integrated & reviewed core (non-UI) portion of contributed source lookup
  facilities to the debug platform
- WTK now works with Eclipse Java debugger
  - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30816
- refactoring support for Java launch configurations (in progress for
  breakpoints)
- continued work with UI team on dynamic debug perspective
- continued experimentation with run/debug actions in context menu
- continued work on enhanced runtime classpath/bootpath support
- bug fixing

Ant:
- EclipseCon poster preparation
- Ant editor enhancements
- Ant view, editor, tabs, etc., now use the "Ant model" provided with Ant
1.6

Core:
- auto-refresh plug-in integrated into builds
- work started on core contribution to Dirk's common expression language
  proposal
- work continues on user settings (m7 goal):
  - base implementation
  - working on backwards compatibility layer
  - need to update design doc to reflect latest changes
- worked on new (merged) Encoding proposal and implementation
- general planning and review of current work in relation to 3.0 plan

Runtime/Equinox:
- work on running without a workspace (-nodata)
- work on RCP demo for EclipseCon

Rel. Eng.:
- investigating how teams can contribute performance measurements/tests
  in JUnit tests
- preparation for WSWB 3.0 builds
- testing fixes in NL tool
- EclipseCon preparation
- investigating PDF doc generation

SWT:
- preparing for EclipseCon
- planning (3.0, bug list for 2.1.3)
- yet more Eclipse new look and feel
- working on "TrayIcon" API (glitches in our thinking)
- bug fixing

Platform UI:
- completing the RCP API implementation
- working on sample RCP app to test API
- work with clients of RCP to make enhancements to current support
- bug fixing
- upgrade background progress support and UI
- lots of New Look enhancements:
  - dockable fast view bar
  - floating toolbar (beta)
  - perspective switching
- out of the box experience:
  - put in hooks for Dejans team to add an Intro/Welcome experience

Platform/Compare:
- bug fixing

JDT/UI:
- bug fixing
- preparing for EclipseCon (posters and talks)
- smart fields are now used in JDT/UI dialogs
- hover based error reporting for fields
- code formatter:
  - worked on improving user interface to control white
    space settings
  - support to open default profiles in read-only mode
- rename support for change method signature
- type hierarchies created for packages now show interfaces
- added visibility category to sort members
- wrote API proposal for AST Rewrite
- Refactoring API:
  - worked on clean-up of Change hierarchy
  - rewrote change execution code and "rollback" support
- added new search to find all exception occurrences. Selecting
  an exception in a catch clause or throws list and searching for
  occurrences will find all expressions that throw that exception
- worked on Java background search. Can be enabled via
  the preference Java->Work In Progress->Search->Use new
  Search View

JUnit:
- refactoring participants of JUnit launch configs

Team:
- preparing for EclipseCon
- continuing work on the synchronization framework
- bug fixing

Help:
- EclipseCon poster preparation
- Help Search results from TOCs in disabled activities shown after topics
  from enabled activities (in a browser), or filtered out (in IDE search
view)
- Help index made workspace independent - moved to platform configuration
  location
- bug fixing

PDE:
- EclipseCon poster preparation
- started work on the new editor foundation based on the new Eclipse Forms
- reworked update site editor to improve the flow (so that it looks nice at

  EclipseCon :-)
- hovering over the icon in the Error Log shows a popup with the first few
  lines of the exception stack trace - can preview without opening the
  properties
- bug fixing

Update:
- continuing on the startup/configuration rework






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