Bob,
It’s great to see the ATF team consulting the community on
these decisions.
With respect to pre-req’ing various Ajax frameworks, your
project and the WTP PMC should be aware of the new Board policy
on 3rd party dependencies.
Mike Milinkovich
Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228
Mobile: +1.613.220.3223
mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
From:
atf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:atf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert Goodman
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:45 PM
To: atf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [atf-dev] Thinking of dropping support for the Zimbra runtime
The ATF team is
trying to get a feel for the number of people that are using the Zimbra Ajax
runtime. The ATF team is thinking about dropping support for the Zimbra Ajax
runtime. The support to be dropped is the capability to add Zimbra to a Dynamic
Web Project in eclipse. The Zimbra Wizards (Create Zimbra Application) and
snippets have already been dropped as part of dropping the personality support.
The Create Application Wizards and snippets support has been dropped for all
runtimes.
The Zimbra Ajax
runtime as shipped by Zimbra has to be manually rebuilt into a WAR file that
can then be installed into Dynamic Web Project. The build.xml files released by
Zimbra have to be modified to build the war. Many of these build issues are
described in the Zimbra forums. The Zimbra runtime is one of the few runtimes
that has to be manually built from the package downloaded from the site to be
used. The existing version of Zimbra Ajax runtime was manually built and put
into a plugin and hosted on the Zimbra site. The plugin hasn't been updated for
more that an year and there are no plans to update to the plugin.
There is also
no plans to send Zimbra through the legal reviews to put the Zimbra Runtime on
the Eclipse.org. We have started this process for other dependencies of ATF
(JavaXPCOM, and XULRunner) with the plans to eventually support an ATF
all-on-one download. Actually there are no plans to send any Ajax runtime
though an eclipse legal review to be hosted on the ATF site. As I stated in
previous post about removing the personality support, we are going to provide a
Generic Runtime support will allow an Ajax Runtime to be defined to ATF and
added to a project. We will be providing GUIs that will allow a developer
just point to a runtime and then be able to use it in ATF. There will also be
extension points that will allow an Ajax runtime to be packaged in a
plugin.
It is possible
for teams that want to support Zimbra, to extract the code from CVS and build
and maintain your own version of the Zimbra plugins. The Zimbra Runitme plugin
hosted on the Zimbra site contains instructions on how to build the Zimbra
runtime.
The ATF team is
trying to understand how people will be effected by the plans to drop support
for Zimbra.
Thanks
Bob
Robert Goodman
goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx
