2006-10-26 wtp-requiremements-minutes

Requirements meeting minutes - October, 26 2006

Attending: Jochen Krause (wtp - innoopract), Gino Bustelo (atf - ibm), Nitin Dahyabhai (wtp - ibm), Amy Wu (wtp - ibm), Tim Wagner (wtp - bea), Bob Fraser (bea), David Williams (wtp - ibm), Neil Hauge (jpa/dali - oracle), Todd Williams (genuitec), John Graham(dtp - sybase), Rob Frost(bea), Shaun Smith (jpa/dali - oracle), Jonas Leine (sap), Kaloyan Raev (sap), Tzanko Stefanov (sap)

Agenda

walk through webtools 2.0 plan items
overview bugzilla enhancement requests
open session for requirements

Webtools 2.0 plan

David williams walking through the plan [1]

plan will remain active
we will mostly move to J2SE5 as execution environment
by 2.0 the now incubating project will be graduated (JSF, JPA, ATF? Is not yet clear)
JSF, JPA provide inroads to JEE5

Themes

QUALITY is a major theme for 2.0 - not a lot of new features, but resolving major bugs
Adopter readiness
- JEE5 - SAP supplied a patch that just works
- better componentization (make reuse of components easier)
- improve API, extend official API
USE the build infrastructure for Europa, called Orbit
USE DITA for help content
Move to DTP (from rdb)
Make it pluggable - that others can provide implementations, but WTP does not have the capacity to provide all implementation ourselves

Kaloyan Raev:

have submitted a patch - want to continue working on that and be involved in the discussion
want to work on the models and would like to be involved in the discussions
will supply a document that covers their vision of how to become involved

Tzanko Stefanov:

also have implementations in the area of web services, that they are inclined to contribute to webtools
- contributions for the 1.5 code stream
- David Williams: We have a general theme that we only extend the 2.0 stream (not maintenance stream) - but will try to resolve this in further discussion

investigate: import a JEE5 project (help wanted)
investigate: export/publish a JEE5 project (help wanted)
validate a JEE5 project (help wanted)
JSR 181 (annotations for web services) - we won't add any specifics, but the annotation processor could handle that (Bob Fraser)

JPA / Dali

Neil Hauge walks through plan (plan on wiki has been updated before the meeting) [2]

working on 1.0 as part of webtools 2.0

Themes:

ecosystem integration (better integration platform, webtools, datatools, orm-xml) - 'in plan'
extensibility (major focus for 1.0 - 'in plan')
Rich UI support for JPA XML descriptor - 'in plan'
usability: better validation, quick fixes, code assist 'some of that is not garantied, some depend on new features in JDT'

Wishlist vs. In plan (Bob Fraser) - see notes above in 'italic'

ATF

ATF requirements walkthrough by Geno [3]

not yet clear whether ATF will exit incubation with WTP 2.0
milestone2 planning:
- try to improve javascript editing
- porting jdt to a javascript development tools suite - code not yet available in CVS - get that into CVS hopefully soon
- embedded mozilla browser (interesting new views, performance of existing, CSS tooling, DOM type ahead filtering)
- improve install (today placeholder plugins - want to implement something similar to the wtp server adapters with automatic fetch)

overview bugzilla enhancement requests

Bugzilla Enhancement requests with more than one vote
- should be brought up the attention of the component leads

open session for requirements

Rob Frost:

maven support - need BUG 128851 (could fall into Adopter readiness theme) - further discussion in wtp status meeting needed

Resources

webtools plan - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Web_Tools_Requirements_2.0
- as of October 26 - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Web_Tools_Platform_2.0_Plan&oldid=14569
jsf requirements - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Release_1.0_Requirements
dali plan - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Dali_1.0_planning
atf roadmap - http://www.eclipse.org/atf/roadmap/