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| <td align=left width="72%"> <font class=indextop> core</font> <br> |
| <font class=indexsub> the foundation of the platform</font></td> |
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| <td align=LEFT valign=TOP bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Development |
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| <p>If you are already a Platform Core developer, check out the <a href="dev.html">Development |
| Resources</a>.</p> |
| <p>If you are looking for proposals that the Core team is currently voting |
| on, or proposals that have been submitted for comment, go to <a href="rfc/index.html">Votes |
| and RFC</a></p> |
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| <p>The Core component forms the base of the Eclipse platform's runtime configuration. |
| It includes mechanisms and facilities for:</p> |
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| <li>booting and running the platform</li> |
| <li>plug-in declaration and management</li> |
| <li>resource management</li> |
| <li>target synchronization</li> |
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| <p>The Core is excruciatingly generic -- all plug-ins installed and run |
| on the Core infrastructure are treated equally. The contents of resources |
| are never examined in any domain-specific way and the Core can run equally |
| well with and without a UI. </p> |
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| <td align=LEFT valign=TOP colspan="2" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">What's |
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| <p>Over the next 6 months the major focus points are:</p> |
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| <li>Performance</li> |
| <li>Robustness</li> |
| <li>Improved support for plug-in fragments and alternative runtime configurations</li> |
| <li>Integration of Windows filesystem callbacks</li> |
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| <p>In the more immediate term, efforts for the next milestone (end of November) |
| are focused on:</p> |
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| <li>Class loading and startup performance</li> |
| <li>Bug fixing</li> |
| <li>Test harness integration</li> |
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| <p>For more detailed information, check out the <a href="dev.html"> Development |
| Resources</a>.</p> |
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| <p>If you are interested in participating in the development of the Core |
| component, check out the developer's mailing list: <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-core-dev">platform-core-dev@eclipse.org</a>. |
| Chat with people there about your problems and interests, and find out |
| what you can do to help. </p> |
| <p>In particular, if you are interested in system level code and are intimately |
| familiar with Java classloading, thread management, filesystem resource |
| management on a variety of operating systems, Windows/Linux filesystem |
| callback management, or programming for speed/space, the Core team wants |
| to talk to you.</p> |
| <p>Upcoming work is primarily in the details of currently supported function.</p> |
| <p>For more detailed information, check out the <a href="dev.html">Development |
| Resources</a>.</p> |
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