[news.eclipse.rt.riena] Re: Milestone 1.0.0.M3

[ekke <ekkehard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

great news, christian :-)

you can be sure, I'll test immediatly if the concept of your UI
and navigation wull fit into my project (I hope so)

would be really great if
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=232942
can be fixed, because its a blocker for me -
without supporting Java 5 Enumerations its problematic for me
to use ObjectTransactions (and I like your OTs :-)

I think I'm not the only one using Java 5 enums in a business 
application ;-)

ekke

Christian Campo schrieb:
> Hi Riena-users,
>
> the plan for Riena contains a M3 milestone at the end of august. However 
> we thought that it would be good to come up with some milestone now so 
> that people can look at all the new features that we have. The number of 
> projects nearly doubled since M2, because now it contains also the 
> client UI code that we were planning for Riena.
>
> So we will publish a new M3 next week (thats the plan). It will contain 
> as new
>
> - riena client ui code
>
>   - a new concept called ridgets that we use for seperating views and 
> controllers, abstracting from the UI toolkit in the controller, that 
> includes the JFace databinding and some higher level APIs compared to 
> the raw widget
>
>   - its own navigation model with subapplications, modules,groups, 
> submodulenodes
>
>   - a concept to have different LookAndFeel for SWT applications 
> independent from the application code itself together with two sample 
> LnFs, but you can easily define your own Look and Feel.
>
> - many fixes and improvements (bugzilla fixes)
>
> - wizard support so that you can generate a hello application and the 
> RCP Mail client as Riena Mail client so that its easier to understand 
> how to use the various Riena APIs.
>
>
> We will have another milestone end of August which is when the original 
> milestone was planned and that is then called M4.
>
> any questions ? dont hesitate to ask
>
> christian