EMF/EMF 2.3/Plan History

An abridged history of the EMF 2.3 Plan and the adoption of JDK 5.0:

• 2005-12-13 People are asking for support for Java 5 (eclipse.tools.emf newsgroup; Eclipse 3.2 / EMF 2.2 timeframe)

• 2006-06-28 Architecture Council Minutes (website; "All projects should have a statement in their project plan about their position on 1.5.")

• 2006-06-29 Planning Council Minutes (website; "There was a discussion of which JVM to use for Europa. Because running Europa will require running with the highest level JVM of all the plug-ins, running all of Europa is almost certainly going to need JVM 1.5.")

• 2006-06-30 Eclipse 3.2 / EMF 2.2 / Callisto released

• 2006-07-20 EMF 2.3 Project Plan (website; later renamed from 3.0 to 2.3 on 2006-12-12)

• 2006-07-27 WTP states its Europa contribution (WTP 2.0) will prereq JDK 5.0 (cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org)

• 2006-10-05 Ed explains why we switched from EMF 3.0 to 2.3 (cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org)

• 2006-10-06 Jeff clarifies what EMF moving to JDK 5 means for BIRT (cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org)

• 2006-10-12 Architecture Council Minutes (website)

• 2006-11-07 Early announcement re: plan for 2.3M4 (eclipse.tools.emf newsgroup)

• 2006-11-09 EMF 2.3 Adoption (wiki)

• 2006-11-18 What's New (linked on EMF homepage, news page, docs page, downloads page)

• 2006-12-01 Second announcement re: 2.3M4 (eclipse.tools.emf newsgroup)

• 2006-12-07 EMF 2.3 Generics (wiki, linked from EMF docs page & EMF downloads page "Bleeding Edge")

• 2007-01-03 Europa Meeting Minutes (wiki; "It should not be a surprise that EMF 2.3 requires Java 5.")

• 2007-01-07 Bjorn states confusion how the process broke down (eclipse.org-planning-council@eclipse.org; "the EMF team clearly brought this JVM 4/5 issue forward over seven months ago so why is it suddenly a surprise and a blocking issue for Europa?")

• 2007-01-07 Harm discusses EMF 2.3 and Java 5 (eclipse.org-planning-council@eclipse.org)

• 2007-01-08 EMF 2.3 JVM Requirements (wiki, linked from EMF docs page & EMF downloads page "Bleeding Edge")

• 2007-01-23 Planning Council Minutes (website; "Add a link to the Europa page [...] discussing the EMF 2.2/2.3 features and JVM 1.4/1.5 issues and what the consequences of whether one should use EMF 2.2 or 2.3 - here is the link")

• 2007-03-04 Europa Meeting Minutes (wiki)

• 2007-04-26 EMF 2.3 New and Noteworthy (wiki, linked from EMF docs page)

• 2007-06-28 EMF 2.3 released (EMF downloads page)

• 2007-07-16 EMF 2.3 Migration Guide (wiki, linked from EMF docs page)