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[wtp-proposal] changes of the new Eclipse Web Tools proposal
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The new Eclipse Web Tools proposal has been published on www.eclipse.org.
Main changes are related to :
- a more precise and a clearer expression of what's in and out of the scope of
each subproject.
- add of new contributors: Gorkem Ercan, Jens Lukowski and Xinjie Zhang! and
corresponding contributions details.
I have collected the changes summarized and detailled below.
Regards,
Dominique De Vito
Thales+ObjectWeb
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Change list summary:
- improvment of what's in and out of the scope of each subproject.
- add of new contributors: Gorkem Ercan, Jens Lukowski and Xinjie Zhang! and
corresponding contributions details.
- add of Erich Gamma to the Candidate PMC members list.
- better 'Becoming a committer' documentation
- a new J2EE architectural principle and a new use case
- other changes: rephrasing, typos...
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Change list details:
* page 'main':
- Rephrasing (as a person was thinking that Eclipse was planning a new OSS J2EE
server implementation) :
Within scope will be a workbench providing a framework for developing, deploying,
testing and debugging J2EE applications on standards-compliant server
environments, as well as an exemplary implementation for an open source J2EE
Server
=>
Within scope will be a workbench providing a framework for developing, deploying,
testing and debugging J2EE applications on standards-compliant server
environments, as well as an exemplary implementation of a plug-in for at least an
open source J2EE Server.
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* page 'Web Standard Tools':
- add of SVG support more explicitly
- refactored project context:
Support of Web standards in the scope of the Web Standard Tools subproject
includes languages and specifications published by open-standard bodies (e.g. W3C,
IETF, ECMA, OASIS, WS-I, ANSI) that are commonly used by Web-centric applications
(e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSD, XSLT, SVG, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SQL, XQuery).
This subproject will provide support for integrating Web servers into Eclipse as
first-class execution environments for Web applications. This support will include
the ability to configure Web servers and assocaite them with Web projects.
Examplar tools for supporting popular Open Source Web servers, such as Apache, are
in scope.
Support of JCP standards are explicitly outside the scope of this project and
should be covered by the Java Development Tools (JDT) project or by the J2EE
Standard Tools (JST) subproject.
The subproject will provide tools that directly support the base standards and
that are also extensible. For example, the HTML editor will be extensible to
support HTML-based template languages such as PHP and JSP. While a JSP editor is
in the scope of the JST subproject, exemplar tools for popular Open Source
languages such as PHP are in scope.
The goal of this project is to provide both
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* page 'J2EE Standard Tools':
- refactored project context:
The scope of the J2EE Standard Tools subproject is the support of J2EE
programming. This includes the support of APIs covered by the J2EE1.4
specifications (e.g. JSP, Servlets, EJBs, JCA, JMS, JNDI, JDBC, Java Web Services,
JAX* and related JSRs). Support for JCP specifications commonly used in Web
Applications, but not included in J2EE1.4 is to be studied on a case by case basis
(ex: JSF,JDO).
Support of frameworks not covered by the JCP (ex: Struts, Hibernate, XMLC) is
outside the scope of this project, such projects could find a home in the Eclipse
Technology project.
JST will have annotation support (JSR 175-Metadata), on top of those provided in
the JDT, e.g. for code assist, where applicable. Annotation support will include
JSR 181-Metadata for Web Services, and in the future will include support for
other standardized metadata such as EJBs. In the transitional period until there
are JSRs for J2EE annotations, JST will have some support for widely accepted open
technologies such as XDoclet.
- new architectural principle:
Provide modular design of tools for enabling separate tool deliveries for
differents classes of developers
Enable separate deliveries of servlet/JSP and EJB tools
Etc
- add of "support for JSR-109 Implementing Enterprise Web Services":
Java Web Services and support for JSR-109 Implementing Enterprise Web Services
- new use case:
Provide Exemplar Server Tools for open-technology server runtimes such as Apache
Tomcat, JOnAS, JBoss, J2EE 1.4 SDK and others.
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* page 'Contributing To The WTP Project':
- change of the 'Communicating Your Desires/Intentions' paragraph to add the
sentences:
The mailing lists and/or newgroups could also be used for discussing or proposing,
in a more informal way, enhancements or new capabilities. Anyway Buzilla is seen
here as a central repository of reference for enhancement demands
- extraction of paragraphs' sentences to create a 'Becoming a committer'
paragraph:
Becoming a committer
Every developer's contribution is welcomed. And by the time, developers can become
committers. A committer is a developer who has write access to the source code
repository for the associated subproject (or component), and has voting rights
allowing to affect the future of the subproject (or component); other developers
define patches and submit them, indirectly, through committers. A developper gains
such committer rights through frequent and valuable contributions to a subproject,
or component of a subproject (in the case of large subprojects). For more
information in what it means to be or to become an Eclipse project or subproject
committer, see the WTP Project Charter. We should point out that creating and
submitting quality patches is the best way to obtain committer privileges for
future work.
- add the (missing) reference to 'CDT Documentation Style Guide'
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* page 'Project Development Plan'.
- add of new contributors: Gorkem Ercan, Jens Lukowski and Xinjie Zhang! and of
their contributions details!
- correction of name typos
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* page 'Project Management Committee':
- Erich Gamma has been added to the Candidate PMC Members list
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* page 'FAQ':
- Changes about the possible meeting:
Upon formal Eclipse approval of the project. A four-day introduction/presentation
of contributions/vision/architecture brainstorming session will start the project.
INRIA has offered to host the event in Grenoble, France from June 16th to June
19th.
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* page 'Designer Documentation' : no change
* page 'Monthly Conference Calls': syntax change.
* page 'IBM contribution' : no change
* page 'ObjectWeb and Eteration' contribution : syntax change.
* page 'Reference Documentation' : no change
* page 'Project Structure' : no change
* page 'Project Charter' : no change
* page 'User Documentation' : no change
* page 'Downloads' : no change
* page 'Unit Test Guidelines' : no change
