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| <p><font class=indextop> equinox</font><br> |
| <font class=indexsub> eclipse runtime exploration</font> </p> |
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| Mission Statement</font></b></td> |
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| <td> The goal of the Equinox project is to experiment with techniques for |
| broadening the range of Eclipse platform runtime configurations. For example, |
| the Eclipse plugin model is static; there is no discussion of practices |
| and tools for managing/reducing interplugin dependencies; service discovery |
| is not covered and the component distribution mechanism is non-standard. |
| <p>These issues do not severely impact the usefulness of Eclipse as a development |
| tool platform but they do affect the use of Eclipse in more constrained |
| environments (e.g., handheld devices, IT managed environments, mass-appeal |
| applications etc.). The Equinox project will investigate such issues and |
| develop approaches which are practical and applicable to the main Eclipse |
| code base. <a href="description.html">more info...</a></p> |
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| The orientation of the Equinox project is changing somewhat with the emergence |
| of the Eclipse 3.0 work. When Equinox was founded, Eclipse 3.0 was a faint |
| thought for sometime in the future. As 3.0 solidified it became apparent |
| that Equinox could have a much more timely impact. Accordingly, you will |
| find the work here to be more closely tied to the Eclipse work in general |
| and the 3.0 Rich Client Platform runtime work in particular.</p> |
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| What's New</font></b></td> |
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| <td> <b>Sep 30th</b> - <img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/new.gif" width="31" height="14"> |
| <a href="alternateRuntimes/index.html">Equinox runtime</a> available<br> |
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| Work Areas</font></b></td> |
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| <td><a href="dynamicPlugins/index.html" target="_top"><b>Dynamic Plug-ins</b></a><br> |
| Issues around changing plug-in configurations without restarting the runtime. |
| This is further broken down into classloader management, dynamic registry |
| and registry lifecycle events.</td> |
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| <td><a href="alternateRuntimes/index.html" target="_top"><b>Alternate Runtimes</b></a><br> |
| Separating the Java component runtime model (e.g., classloaders etc) from |
| notions of plug-in dependency, extensions and extension-points, etc. This |
| work area breaks down into separation of the models and the mapping of plug-in |
| essentials to existing Java component runtimes (e.g., OSGi, Avalon, JMX, |
| ...).</td> |
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| <td><a href="services/index.html" target="_top"><b>Services</b></a><br> |
| Adding a services model to Eclipse.</td> |
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| <td><a href="tnt/index.html" target="_top"><b>Tools and Techniques</b></a><br> |
| Tools and techniques for developing plug-ins which take advantage of the new |
| function proposed in Equinox and behave well in dynamic situations.</td> |
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| <td><a href="security/index.html" target="_top"><b>Security, roles, profiles</b></a><br> |
| Study how enable a security model.</td> |
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| Resources</font></b></td> |
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| <td><a href="documents/index.html" target="_top"><b>Documents</b></a><br> |
| Equinox design documents.</td> |
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| <td><a href="downloads.html" target="_top"><b>Downloads</b></a><br> |
| Download parts of the Equinox experiment.</td> |
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| <td><a href="plans/index.html" target="_top"><b>Plans</b></a><br> |
| See what is happening in Equinox.</td> |
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| <td><a href="faq.html" target="_top"><b>FAQ</b></a><br> |
| What are people asking about Equinox.</td> |
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| <td><a href="news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.technology.equinox" target="_top"><b>Newsgroup</b></a><br> |
| Talk to the people using Equinox.</td> |
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| <td><a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev" target="_top"><b>Mailing |
| list </b></a><br> |
| Talk to the people working on Equinox.</td> |
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| <td><a href=http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?product=equinox&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time" target="_top"><b>Bugs/Issues</b></a><br> |
| Discover the current bugs and issues in Equinox.</td> |
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| <p><a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/org.eclipse.equinox" target="_top"><b>CVS</b></a><br> |
| The Equinox code repository is available via <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/org.eclipse.equinox">web |
| access</a> or direct CVS access. For direct access, use anonymous login |
| to the CVS repo</p> |
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| <p>:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org/home/technology</p> |
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| <p>The Equinox work goes on in the org.eclipse.equinox directory/module. |
| Note that most work is done in various branches rather than HEAD.</p> |
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| <td><a href="committers.html" target="_top"><b>Committers</b></a><br> |
| The people working on Equinox.</td> |
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