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| <h1>WTP Adopters</h1> |
| <h2>Introduction</h2> |
| <p> |
| WTP is a |
| <em>platform</em> |
| and so adoption by others is a major goal of the project. |
| You are a WTP |
| <em>adopter</em> |
| if you are a commercial vendor or an Open Source project |
| that is using or is planning to use WTP in one or more of |
| your products. This page lists information for WTP adopters. |
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| <h2>Hot Bugs</h2> |
| <p> |
| The WTP project gives high priority to bugs that promote |
| adoption. If you are an adopter and need a fix for an |
| upcoming release, please follow the |
| <a |
| href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Hotbug_Policy">hot bug process</a> |
| to request that your bug be placed on the Hot List. We can't |
| guarantee that we'll fix every Hot Bug, but we will give |
| them high priorties. |
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| <h2> WTP API Policy</h2> |
| <p> |
| The |
| <a |
| href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_API_Policy">WTP API Policy</a> |
| can be found on the |
| <a |
| href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Eclipse_Web_Tools_Platform_Project">wiki</a>.</p> |
| <h2>Tools to generate API and non-API usage reports</h2> |
| <p> |
| The PDE, in the Eclipse Platform, provides tools to scan |
| your code to see what API, and non-API, your code uses from |
| WTP (or other Eclipse projects). See |
| <a |
| href="http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?nav=/4_2_3">Eclipse Help</a> |
| and various |
| <a |
| href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/API_Tools/Resources">Eclispe wiki pages</a> |
| and |
| <a |
| href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/02/17/pde-api-tools-and-usage-scans/">blog entries</a> |
| for details and ways to get started. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| As an adopter, you can make use of these scan reports in |
| several ways, mostly concerned with non-API use: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Check what non-API your code uses, and see if there |
| is an API way to accomplish the same thing.</li> |
| <li>If you find you do need to use a non-API for |
| something, and there is no API alternative, you are |
| welcome to open an enhancement requests for WTP to |
| provide the function as API. Be sure to describe |
| your current non-API use, but also be clear on your |
| whole use-case, and what you are need to accomplish. |
| The solution is seldom simply to declare non-API as |
| API.</li> |
| <li>Even if we can not provide the API you need (due to |
| not having enough time and resources to do |
| everything we need to) it is helpful to have non-API |
| usage reports simply so we can be sensitive you |
| needs, and when possible, avoid changing these |
| non-APIs, unless there is a good reason to.</li> |
| </ul> |
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