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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>1. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>The problem</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">WTP is a large project. It offers features and | |
| functions for a wide range of web developers, and, some would say, | |
| focuses primarily on Java and JEE aspects of Web Development.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">The WST project of WTP is for non-Java Web | |
| Development. JST, JSF and JPA are, as the 'J' implies, for Java and | |
| JEE Development. But, due to history and the whole Java-centric | |
| nature of Eclipse, WST has not received enough attention in its own | |
| right.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">This was fine for a while, but as WTP matures, | |
| and as Web 2 applications become more popular, then some of the | |
| shortcomings of WST become more apparent.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">This document is to serve as a place to organize | |
| this overall theme of non-Java web development. That is, organize | |
| it with prose, in a way that can not be done by individual bugzilla | |
| entries or individual line items in a plan. Hopefully this document | |
| will evolve, as our understanding and implementations | |
| evolve. </div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">I should be explicit about 2 things:</div> | |
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| any of these ideas ... it's only to organize the concepts around a | |
| theme. Though, volunteers and patches are welcome!</li> | |
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| "margin-left: -4mm; margin-right: 0mm; padding-left: 0mm;">Many | |
| people have contributed to the good parts of this document, most | |
| notably Robert Goodman and others from the AJAX Tools Project. But, | |
| I take credit for all the bad parts and the wacky ideas. You can | |
| open bugs on this document itself, or send comments to our primary | |
| mailing list, wtp-wst- dev@eclipse.org.</li> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>2. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Some solutions</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">There are several areas within this theme that | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">One distinct aspect of non-java development is | |
| the user is perhaps less technical, or, at least, technical about | |
| different things. Hence, part of the solution is to be aware of | |
| that different type of user, and take that into account in a number | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.1 </span><span class=topicLine>More interest and knowledge of client-side</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Non-java web developers have more concern, or | |
| need to know about, browser specific details. For example, they may | |
| want to validate their HTML against strict HTML 4.01 standards to | |
| work in any browser (<a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=126934"><span>bug | |
| 126934</span></a><span>), or they may want to maximize some aspect | |
| of their application by writing to, and validate against some | |
| particular version of some particular browser or  perhaps even | |
| add custom tags. </span></div> | |
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| <div align="left">There are many other features for improved HTML | |
| and CSS editing (such as spell checking, dynamically updating CSS | |
| model, etc).</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Less Server-Centric</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Non-java web developers typically do not much | |
| care about what server is being used, nor need to test different | |
| types of servers during development. Our current server UI in WTP | |
| is JEE centric in the sense it gives lots of flexibility and power | |
| in choosing and configuring servers. And, this is good for the | |
| power JEE developer, but is too complicated for the non-Java web | |
| developer.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">There are several levels of server UI that should | |
| be available, depending on the users expertise and goals.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.2.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Invisible, ready out of the box.</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">At this level, a user pretty much just would have | |
| to say "run" or "preview" and things would run on a server, perhaps | |
| without the user even being aware that it was running on a server. | |
| No setup, no properties to set, etc. For this level, users should | |
| be able to "run" the following sorts of pages. Where "run" means | |
| the content is served up by a server, handling resolution of page | |
| references, etc., as a server would: HTML pages, with CSS, | |
| JavaScript, and simple JSPs and Servlets. There would be no "web | |
| app" per se (or, if there was, it would be some default one that | |
| the user would not even know about). Where server-side debug | |
| exists, such as for JSPs and Servlets, the developer should (still) | |
| be able to debug. See <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=163100"><span>bug | |
| 163100</span></a><span>.</span></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.2.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Simple HTTP Server (Adapter)</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Here the user wants to simply point to an | |
| existing HTTP server. See <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=85971"><span>bug | |
| 85971</span></a><span>. In this case, any setup of the server is | |
| done entirely outside the development environment, and in many | |
| cases would have already been done. For example, the developer may | |
| have an HTTP server installed on their machine, which has been | |
| enabled to run PHP scripts.</span></div> | |
| <div align="left">Many web development IDEs do this by having the | |
| user simply specify an URL to the base of the server (where pages | |
| are subsequently published to, using FTP or WebDAV).</div> | |
| <div align="left">In Eclipse, if the server is actually on the same | |
| machine, the project/folder can be "linked" to the appropriate | |
| location outside the workspace so any change to the file would be | |
| immediately "visible" on the server.</div> | |
| <div align="left">It would be interesting to investigate use of EFS | |
| for a more invisible method of deployment.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.2.3 </span><span class=topicLine>Multiple, configurable servers</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">This is already (pretty much) what we have in | |
| WTP. The developer wants to use and test several server, and be | |
| able to configure and integrate those test servers with their | |
| environment (so, for example, the tool knows what the server is | |
| capable of) and developers may need to share this configuration | |
| with teammates.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.3 </span><span class=topicLine>Less interest or knowledge of project types</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">JEE developers usually know a great deal about | |
| WARs, EARs, RARs, Beans, etc., but non-java developers typically | |
| know nothing of these things.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.3.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Simplified web project types</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">The concept of "dynamic project" and "static | |
| project" is confusing, especially to this type of non-Java | |
| developer. See <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173901"><span>bug | |
| 173901</span></a><span>.</span></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>3.3.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Interoperability of project types</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Non-Java web development, more so that J2EE | |
| development, needs to work seemlessly with many different types of | |
| projects.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">One good example is if someone has the PHP tools | |
| installed, and are developing a PHP project, then they should be | |
| able to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript in that project as they would in | |
| a web project. (I think that it all currently possible, but we need | |
| to verify). The one thing that is not currently possible, is that | |
| someone should be able to "run on server" from that PHP project .. | |
| preferably without the PHP project doing anything special. Or, if | |
| they do need to do something, we need to work with them to make it | |
| easy ... or, perhaps even contribute a patch? But, ideally, they'd | |
| have to do nothing, since it is not really scalable to require | |
| every possible potential project type to do something special to | |
| publish to a server. For example, someone might want to "run on | |
| server" from a Java project (either a servlet, or perhaps some | |
| random HTML file?).</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>4. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Ease of Use</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">While ease of use is always important, non-Java | |
| web development is an area of opportunity to excel.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>4.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Capabilities</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">To be able to hide complexities (until the user | |
| needs it) is one important aspect of Usability that would help | |
| non-Java web developers. In theory, for example, even if JDT was | |
| present in the installed software, perhaps it should not be | |
| "visible" by default, unless the user requested it.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>4.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Specialized Perspectives</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">One thing to investigate is if some more | |
| specializied views or perspectives would help the non-Java web | |
| developer. This would especially be true if solutions with | |
| capabilities could not, effectively, remove all the non- required | |
| aspects of the UI.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">For example, if Java is installed, it may be | |
| unlikely they would, by default, disable all the Java UI or | |
| capabilities, just for historical reasons. Or, the user may use | |
| Java occasionally, but prefer to have a perspective that "hid" it | |
| most the time, perhaps emphasizing more JavaScript development, for | |
| example.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">Even if not provided "out of the box", we need to | |
| make sure users can create the types of perspectives they desire | |
| for non-Java web development..</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">The other part of the investigation is not just | |
| to investigate what to remove from the J2EE perspective, but what | |
| other types of perspectives non-Java developers might need. for | |
| example, perhaps a JavaScript perspective, perhaps an AJAX | |
| perspective?</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>4.3 </span><span class=topicLine>Simplified Wizards</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Some wizards seem to always have some | |
| complications presented, even if not required, in the case of | |
| non-Java web development.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">For example, a new project wizard, always lists a | |
| "target server" to select, even though, as we've said elsewhere, | |
| the non-Java web developer typically only has one server that | |
| should apply to all cases ... and the "target server" is confusing | |
| to new users, who are accustom to simpler tools.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">Similarly, if there are no facets to add then | |
| that part of the new web-project wizard should not be | |
| displayed.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>5. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Ease of Install</span> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>5.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Complex pre-reqs and version dependencies</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Besides having a number of pre-reqs, often the | |
| exact version of pre-reqs is critical. This makes it hard for the | |
| casual user to "click and go", so to speak.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>5.1.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Improved Packaging</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">One | |
| way to improve is to actually 'include', not just 'require' some of | |
| our pre-reqs, in both zips and WTP update sites. See</span></font> | |
| <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182340"><font size= | |
| "2"><span style="font-size:10pt">bug | |
| 182340</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style= | |
| "font-size:10pt">.</span></font></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>5.1.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Too many requirements of things in wrong places</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">There is a number of places where dependencies | |
| can be simplified, eventually.</div> | |
| <div align="left">For example, SSE still depends on the UnDo | |
| functionality that happens to be provided in EMF. This was done | |
| since historically since EMF had it first, but now that the | |
| platform offers one, we should transition to it. (I should say | |
| transition completely, as some of the preliminary work has been | |
| done ... but, a hard part remains). </div> | |
| <div align="left">Another case, Some of the "utilities" in JEM | |
| should be promoted to EMF (as their purpose is to provide some | |
| enhanced EMF-related function). </div> | |
| <div align="left">One hard aspect of this line of work is that | |
| there is little pay back for each fix. It will only be when a dozen | |
| or so such simplifications are done that the pay-off would actually | |
| start to show up in simplified dependencies overall.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>5.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Provide more frequent updates</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Typically, there is one update site for official | |
| releases. This is required to remain true, since other adopters or | |
| their products require only official releases be available to their | |
| users.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">But, to speed adoption by bleeding edge | |
| end-users, we should have milestone, and even weekly update site | |
| for those users who choose to follow closely.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">This is thought especially important for web | |
| developers since the time scale of web developers is sort of | |
| "compressed" ... they make frequent updates to their environments | |
| and tools.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>6. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Footprint</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">There's a number of problems that cause WST to be | |
| larger than it needs to be.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>6.1 </span><span class=topicLine>JDT pre-req</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Technically, JDT is not required by any WST code, | |
| directly, but WST pre-reqs JEM and EMF, and parts of JEM and EMF | |
| pre-req JDT.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">So, for example, if we get rid of the JEM | |
| dependencies in WST, then WST would be smaller, since it would not | |
| only need JEM, it would also not need JDT.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>6.1.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Lessen JEM Dependency in WST</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Just for some historical reason, some plugins in | |
| WST use some utilities in JEM. We could package just the | |
| jem.utils  in WST, and the rest of JEM in JST. That would | |
| eliminate one source of JDT requirement in WST. See <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182269"><span>bug | |
| 182269</span></a><span>.</span></div></div> | |
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| <td class="topicLineColumn"> | |
| <a name="Topic25"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>6.1.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Lessen EMF Dependency in WST</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">WST as a whole, will always need some parts of | |
| EMF (such as the EMF core, and XSD Info set) but, there are other | |
| parts, such as the SDO models, that are only required in JST. While | |
| EMF does not provide exactly that packaging we need, based on | |
| features, there's no reason we can not "repackage" what we need | |
| from EMF into our appropriate features. See <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182340"><font size= | |
| "2"><span style="font-size:10pt">bug | |
| 182340</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style= | |
| "font-size:10pt">.</span></font></div></div> | |
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| <a name="Topic26"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>6.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Too few optional pre-reqs</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">In some cases, there are only minor dependencies | |
| on pre-reqs. In many of these cases, the pre-req should be | |
| optional, and even if there is minor loss of function, at least it | |
| gives more choices and flexibility in trading off footprint for | |
| function. Even if we in WTP still provided everything, at least | |
| there would be more options for others (such as the AJAX Tool | |
| Project) to provide a reduced install).</div></div> | |
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| <td class="topicLineColumn"> | |
| <a name="Topic27"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>6.2.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Reduce Drag-In</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">In | |
| some cases, using an optional pre-req can prevent large indirect | |
| "drag in" effects, where for example, a tiny dependency requires | |
| the whole JDT. See</span></font> <a href= | |
| "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182274"><font size= | |
| "2"><span style="font-size:10pt">bug | |
| 182274</span></font></a><font size="2"><span style= | |
| "font-size:10pt">.</span></font></div></div> | |
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| <td class="topicLineColumn"> | |
| <a name="Topic28"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>6.3 </span><span class=topicLine>nonSDK vs. SDK</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">WTP and it's pre-reqs are often judged as "too | |
| big". While there are many ways to make it smaller, once way is to | |
| better provide the proper packaging for end-users. Namely, end- | |
| users, those simply using it to create web apps, need only the non- | |
| sdk versions of WTP (or WST, for this discussion) and it's pre- | |
| reqs, not the SDK versions. This can make an extreme difference in | |
| size. For example, the following table shows the approximate zip | |
| file size comparing SDK vs. runtime for all of WST and its pre- | |
| reqs, in Megabytes.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" width="70%" cellpadding="5" | |
| style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none"> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 1.00pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">Component</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 1.00pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">SDK</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 1.00pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">End-User</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 1.00pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">Percent</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left">Eclipse Platform</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">85</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">39</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">46</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">JDT</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">37</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">21</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">57</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">PDE</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">11</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">8</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">73</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">CVS</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">3</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">2</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">67</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">EMF</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">25</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">3</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">12</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" height="24" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">GEF</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" height="24" style= | |
| "border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">6</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" height="24" style= | |
| "border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">1</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" height="24" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">17</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| </table> | |
| <table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" width="70%" cellpadding="5" | |
| style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none"> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">JEM</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">3</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">1</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">33</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">WST</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">33</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">21</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv">64</div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"> </div> | |
|  </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"> </div> | |
|  </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style="border: solid 0.50pt;"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"> </div> | |
|  </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 0.50pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"> </div> | |
|  </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 1.00pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 1.00pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"><b>Total</b></div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 1.00pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"><b>203</b></div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 0.50pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 1.00pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"><b>96</b></div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" width="25%" style= | |
| "border-left:solid 0.50pt; border-right:solid 1.00pt; border-top:solid 0.50pt; border-bottom:solid 1.00pt"> | |
| <div align="left" class="lastTableNotesDiv"><b>47</b></div> | |
| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| </table> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">So, at least 50% smaller, just by not packaging | |
| the SDK. It is interesting to note, for comparison, if by chance we | |
| somehow got rid of ALL our pre-reqs (except the Platform), then our | |
| zip file size then would be reduced by about similar amounts (85 + | |
| 33 = 118 (SDK)  or 39 + 21 = 60 Meg) ... so, hopefully we can | |
| eventually do a little of both and get down to around 30% of what | |
| we are now.</div></div> | |
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| <a name="Topic29"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>7. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Well (better) integrated Eclipse experience</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">One measure of a non-Java component's adequacy, | |
| is it it provides the same sorts of functionality that is available | |
| in the Java IDE. In many cases we do, but there's a few that are | |
| noticeably absent.</div></div> | |
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| <a name="Topic30"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>7.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Refactoring</span> | |
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| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Refactoring means something a little different to | |
| non-Java Web developers. In this case, it is mostly about link | |
| references and link "fix up". For example, if some images files are | |
| moved to another folder, it would be nice to offer the user to "fix | |
| up" any HTML pages that linked to those images.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div> | |
| <div align="left">While we have put in some refactoring support for | |
| JEE projects and artifacts (still more to do there) we have not | |
| done any such refactoring work for WST only users.</div> | |
| <div align="left"></div></div> | |
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| <a name="Topic31"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>7.2 </span><span class=topicLine>Model based Compare</span> | |
| <span class="topicIcons"> | |
| <!-- BEGIN SNIPPET ICONS (Page_Icons,Page_Box_CalloutNotes_Item) --> | |
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| </td> | |
| </tr> | |
| </table> | |
| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">We currently provide no model based compare for | |
| XML, HTML, CSS, etc. In a model based compare, things like the | |
| order of attributes in a tag would not show up as a "difference" in | |
| files, since that makes no difference to interpreting that | |
| particular type of data.</div></div> | |
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| <td class="topicLineColumn"> | |
| <a name="Topic32"></a> | |
| <span class=outlineNumber>7.3 </span><span class=topicLine>Improved Spell Checking</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Perhaps add known or common HTML tags, etc, to | |
| built-in dictionary.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">Perhaps improve spell checking API (to be | |
| sensitive to content types, partition types, etc).</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumberSecond>8. </span><span class=topicLineSecond>Improved Web support</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">In general there's a few week spots in WST that | |
| could be improved. They become even more important in the context | |
| of Web 2.0 development.</div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>8.1 </span><span class=topicLine>Scripting languages</span> | |
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| <div class="topicTextNotes"><div align="left">Scripting languages are more important to non- | |
| Java web developers than to their JEE developer counterparts. | |
| JavaScript, PHP, etc.</div> | |
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| <div align="left">The <a href= | |
| "https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JSDT"><span>JSDT</span></a> | |
| <span>is one effort to improve JavaScript in WTP and make it a | |
| first-class development environment, on par with the Java | |
| Development environment. Plus, there are other, similar efforts, | |
| such as in DLTK that we should leverage to the extent | |
| possible.</span></div></div> | |
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| <span class=outlineNumber>8.2 </span><span class=topicLine>XSLT</span> | |
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| and probably more so in non- Java web development. WST currently | |
| has nothing "built in" for XSL or XSLT. While in theory many | |
| "advanced functions" could be in scope of WST, as a practical | |
| matter, just a few simple additions would drastically help web | |
| developers. Some "new file" templates, some basic "launch" | |
| capability.</div> | |
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