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<p>Last revised: 2008/08/27</p>
<p>This plan is under continuous refinement. Please send comments about this plan to the <a href="mailto:pde-ui-dev@eclipse.org">pde-ui-dev@eclipse.org</a> developer mailing list.</p>
<h2><a NAME="Overall_Planning"></a>Overall Goals</h2>
<p>This section lists the goals for Eclipse 3.5 for the PDE/API Tools component as listed on the
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_5.html">Eclipse Project 3.5 Draft Plan</a>.
</p>
<p>
<strong><a name="1"></a>[1] Performance</strong>.
Monitor overall performance and memory consumption. Build a new performance test suite. </p>
<p>
<strong><a name="2"></a>[2] Reliability</strong>.
Build a comprehensive regression test suite for the API Tools builder. Fix critical bugs, provide APIs as required. </p>
<p>
<strong><a name="3"></a>[3] Keep Eclipse vibrant and attractive</strong>.
Investigate and implement enhancements such validating system library access based on a project's associated execution environment. </p> </td>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M1"></a>
<h3>Milestone M1 (2008-08-08)</h3>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> General Items [<a href="#2">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> 3.4.1 maintenance work</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Bug fixing </li>
</ul> </td>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M2"></a>
<h3>Milestone M2 (2008-09-19)</h3>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> General Items [<a href="#2">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> 3.4.1 maintenance work</li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Bug fixing </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Reliability [<a href="#3">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Build a comprehensive regression test suite for the API analysis builder (Michael Rennie, Darin Wright, IBM) [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=218571">bug 218571</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> &gt;[M3] Build a performance test suite (Michael Rennie, Darin Wright, IBM) [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245434">bug 245434</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Publish a Smoke Test plan on the web (Michael Rennie, IBM) [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245415">bug 245415</a>] </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Usability/Workflow [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Polish API Errors/Warnings preference page (Olivier Thomann, IBM)
<ul>
<li>Reduce the number of settings by combining errors related to type variables/bounds into one section and combining type conversions into one error [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242618">bug 242618</a> and <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242610">bug 242610</a>] </li>
<li>Simplify settings for Annotations [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242609">bug 242609</a>] </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing</h4> </td>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M3"></a>
<h3>Milestone M3 (2008-10-31)</h3>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Architecture/Infrastructure [<a href="#3">3</a>, <a href="#1">1</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Migrate architecture to support binary or source analysis </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Consolidate data structures used for delta creation and API use/leak analysis</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Make search criteria implementation more flexible by allowing specializations rather than having one search criteria that can do everything </li>
<li><img src="../../images/glass.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Investigate integration as Java compilaion participant
<ul>
<li>&gt; decided not to follow this path in 3.5 - compilation participants are intended for lightweight function </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API Analysis Enhancements [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> For non-API super-type leaks, analyze if anything internal is actually exposed </li>
<li><img src="../../images/glass.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Allow &quot;friends&quot; to have special privileges - like implement, reference etc.
<ul>
<li>&gt; decided not to implement this feature (not that widely used - indicates implementation is split across several bundles) </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>&gt;[deferred to M4] Flag when new API is used in a required bundle that requires the version range to be incremented/updated (i.e. using a new API, so lower bound needs updating) </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing [<a href="#2">2</a>, <a href="#1">1</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Build a performance test suite (Michael Rennie, Darin Wright, IBM) [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245434">bug 245434</a>] </li>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M4"></a>
<h3>Milestone M4 (2008-12-12)</h3>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> System Library access validation [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"><strong></strong>Validate references to system library based on EE (J2SE-1.4, etc). A 1.4 project should not reference 1.5/1.6 methods/classes</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"><strong></strong>Investigate methods to ship required metadata for access validation </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> RelEng Ant Task API [<a href="#3">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10">Support API ant tasks for general consumption and integration into RelEng build process
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10">Separate data collection and report generation such that report generation can be pluggable </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10">Document use of the Ant tasks in ISV guide</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API Analysis Enhancements [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>&gt;[from M3] Flag when new API is used in a required bundle that requires the version range to be incremented/updated (i.e. using a new API, so lower bound needs updating</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">Enhance API use analysis to process anonymous/local types [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=246672">bug 246672</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10">Support @noextend tag on interfaces, in addition to @noimplement [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=230189">bug 230189</a>]</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">Tooling to clean up stale API problem filters [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244676">bug 244676</a>]</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Baseline Definition [<a href="#3">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">Follow PDE's use of p2 to discover/analyze what bundles are present in an installation
<ul>
<li>API Baseline definition is similar to target platform definition, and we should use a similar approach </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">Create incremental build performance tests [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251617">bug 251617</a>] </li>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M5"></a>
<h3>Milestone M5 (2009-01-30)</h3>
<p>Major/Big Features Done</p>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Extension point compatibility analysis [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15">Analyze extension points for compatibility errors (addition of non-optional attributes) </li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15">Update bundle version numbers based on breaking/compatible changes in extension points</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API Analysis Enhancements [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>[&gt;from M4] Flag when new API is used in a required bundle that requires the version range to be incremented/updated (i.e. using a new API, so lower bound needs updating)</li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">Support to handle plug-in split/re-organization properly during compatibility analysis [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=240914">bug 240914</a>]</li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15"> Support to handle fragments properly during compatibility analysis [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=255720">bug 255720</a>] </li>
<li>[&gt; M6] Improve presentation of API tooling reports in the releng build </li>
<li>[&gt; M6] Code assist should filter system library completions [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256287">bug 256287</a>]</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API comparison reporting [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">[&gt; M6] Tooling to compare APIs - highlights what APIs have changed in a release, relative to a baseline </li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15"> Could be presented in the IDE (structural compare)</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API use reporting [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><font class="indexsub"><img src="../../images/new.gif" border="0"></font>[&gt; M6] Tooling to identify what clients (plug-ins/bundles) are illegally using non-API code
<ul>
<li>Note that this is different from current discouraged access reporting, since it allows the producer to see who is accessing their code, rather than flagging the consumer with a problem </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15">Could be presented in the IDE (search) and as an Ant task/report for RelEng build</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Baseline Definition [<a href="#3">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">[&gt; M6] Follow PDE's use of p2 to discover/analyze what bundles are present in an installation
<ul>
<li>API Baseline definition is similar to target platform definition, and we should use a similar approach </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">&gt;[from M4] Create incremental build performance tests [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251617">bug 251617</a>] </li>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M6"></a>
<h3>Milestone M6 (2009-03-13)</h3>
<p>API Freeze</p>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API Use Reports [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><font class="indexsub"><img src="../../images/new.gif" border="0"></font><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">[&gt; from M5] Generate producer centric report of what API/non-API is being consumed by other bundles [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259403">bug 259403</a>] </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Baseline Definition [<a href="#3">2</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">[&gt; from M4] Follow PDE's use of p2 to discover/analyze what bundles are present in an installation
[<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=239493">bug 239493</a>]
<ul>
<li>API Baseline definition is similar to target platform definition, and we should use a similar approach </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> API Comparison Reporting [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> [&gt; from M5] Generate API comparison report - highlights what APIs have changed in a release, relative to a baseline [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=258853">bug 258853</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15">[&gt;from M4] Detect when new API is used in a required bundle that requires the version range to be incremented/updated [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=255771">bug 255771</a>] </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Performance </h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">Tune incremental build performance tests [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260732">bug 260732</a>] </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Polish</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10">[&gt; from M5] Support to handle plug-in split/re-organization properly during compatibility analysis [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259997">bug 259997</a>]</li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" width="10" height="10"> Include API descriptions when exporting plug-ins from the workspace [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227202">bug 227202</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5">[&gt; from M5] Improve presentation of API tooling reports in the releng build [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257724">bug 257724</a>] </li>
<li><img src="../../images/error.gif" width="15" height="15">[&gt; from M5] Code assist should filter system library completions [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256287">bug 256287</a>]</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing</h4></td>
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<a name="Milestone_Planning_M7"></a>
<h3>Milestone M7 (2009-05-01)</h3>
<p>Feature Freeze, Focus on Performance and Polish</p>
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<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Performance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improve incremental build performance and footprint [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=233643">bug 233643</a>] </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Polish</h4>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" nosave="" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Testing</h4> </td>
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