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| <div id="midcolumn"><h1><span style="font-size: 140%">Project Plan For |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=rt.ecf">Eclipse Communication Framework</a></span>, version 3.0</h1><div id="toc"><p><a name="toc"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></a></p><ul><li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#release_deliverables"> |
| Release Deliverables |
| </a></li><li><a href="#release_milestones"> |
| Release Milestones |
| </a></li><li><a href="#target_environments"> |
| Target Environments |
| </a></li><li><a href="#compatibility"> |
| Compatibility with Previous Releases |
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| Themes and Priorities |
| </a></li></ul></div><h2><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2><div><p>Previously, ECF has had two major releases: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php">ECF 1.0.0</a> as part of <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Simultaneous_Release">Europa Simultaneous Release</a>, and ECF 2.0.0 as part of <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede_Simultaneous_Release">Ganymede Simultaneous Release</a>. This plan describes the work for ECF 3.0.0, which will occur in June, 2009 as part of the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Galileo_Simultaneous_Release">Galileo Simultaneous Release</a>.</p></div><h2><a name="release_deliverables">Release Deliverables</a></h2><div><p>The major ECF 3.0.0 release deliverables are as follows: |
| <ol><li>Contribute to <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4">E4 Project</a> via work on a common connection framework, synchronization of replicated models, and support for/use of asynchronous communication patterns</li> |
| <li>Contribute to <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2">Equinox P2 Project</a> via additions to ECF File Transfer, and usage of ECF Discovery, and ECF Remote Services</li> |
| <li>Improve and Extend the ECF Example Applications</li> |
| <li>Enable easier creation and use of Equinox+ECF-based Server Runtimes</li> |
| <li>Harden ECF Discovery and Remote OSGi Services, create more provider implementations, and provide open reference implementations for |
| emerging standards (e.g. RFC 119)</li> |
| <li>Improve IM and Chat for usage with Eclipse</li> |
| <li>Deliver improved application integration with Eclipse projects: Mylyn and DSDP-TM VNC screen sharing</li> |
| <li>Restructure ECF's packaging and deployment for easier external consumption</li> |
| <li>Create selected providers based upon community input about emerging popular protocols</li></ol> |
| |
| </p></div><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="release_milestones">Release Milestones</a></h2><div>ECF plans on delivering milestone on the same general schedule as the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Galileo_Simultaneous_Release">Galileo Simultaneous Release</a> schedule, starting with M4. ECF has both +0 and +1 components. The +0 components will be |
| on same release schedule as the Platform, and the +1 components will be as specified below.</div><table border="1" align="center"><tr><td><b>M4</b></td><td>12/17/2008</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>M5</b></td><td>2/3/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>M6</b></td><td>3/16/2009</td><td><div>API Freeze</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>M7</b></td><td>5/4/2009</td><td><div>3.0.0 Feature Freeze</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC1</b></td><td>5/18/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC1</b></td><td>5/18/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC2</b></td><td>5/25/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC3</b></td><td>6/1/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC4</b></td><td>6/8/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>RC5</b></td><td>6/15/2009</td><td><div/></td></tr><tr><td><b>3.0.0</b></td><td>6/26/2009</td><td><div>Galileo GA</div></td></tr></table><div/><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="target_environments">Target Environments</a></h2><div>ECF's target environments are: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Eclipse</li> |
| <li>Eclipse-based Applications</li> |
| <li>Other Equinox-Based Runtimes (e.g. Equinox servers)</li> |
| </ul> |
| </div><h3>Internationalization</h3> |
| <div>ECF doesn't perform internationalization directly, although we develop our plugins following |
| common rules about string externalization to make the automation possible</div> |
| <p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="compatibility">Compatibility with Previous Releases</a></h2><div><p>ECF has a policy of maintaining API backward compatibility with minor and service releases. API is considered all |
| exported packages (i.e. packages that do not have <pre>x-internal:=true</pre> in their Export-Package declaration. As an example, |
| with the following declaration in the org.eclipse.ecf MANIFEST.MF</p> |
| <pre>Export-Package: org.eclipse.ecf.core, org.eclipse.ecf.internal.core;x-internal:=true |
| </pre> |
| <p>The org.eclipse.ecf.core package is API, and the org.eclipse.ecf.internal.core package is not</p> |
| <p>Only with major releases (e.g. 2.0.0, 3.0.0) are incompatible API changes to be introduced (e.g. refactorings, renames), and even then only after discussion |
| among multiple committers. For the parts of ECF used by the Platform (e.g. the core and file transfer bundles), NO incompatible |
| API changes will be introduced, even for major releases, in order to maintain the platform backward compatibility |
| constraints.</p> |
| </div><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p><h2><a name="themes_and_priorities">Themes and Priorities</a></h2><div/><h3>Model Synchronization</h3><p>ECF's docshare capabilities will be generalized to support synchronization of distributed models of multiple forms</p><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[modelsync] Improve Real-Time Shared Editing for files that exist in both workspaces [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/237471">237471</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[modelsync][rtcollab] Distribute resource changes to peer in real-time [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/239048">239048</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[modelsync] DocShare plug-in should be split into core/ui [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/234142">234142</a>] (target milestone: 2.1.0)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Real-Time Collaboration for IDE</h3><p/><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[rtcollab] Provide an indication of where other users are editing [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/237923">237923</a>] (target milestone: 2.1.0)</li><li>[rtcollab] DocShare should support the sharing of external files [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/238040">238040</a>] (target milestone: 2.1.0)</li><li>[modelsync][rtcollab] Distribute resource changes to peer in real-time [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/239048">239048</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[rtcollab] DocShare & DocShare.Cola should support N way messaging [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/240290">240290</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>ECF for Runtimes</h3><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[runtime] [IRC] Support platform proxy settings [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/200256">200256</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[xmpp] [runtime] use org.eclipse.core.net.proxy API for socks proxy support [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/206275">206275</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[runtime] Equinox-based XMPP server [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/235844">235844</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[runtime][presence][xmpp] add use of proxy data in xmpp connections [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/236455">236455</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[runtime] [msn] doesn't honor platform proxy settings [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/193578">193578</a>] (target milestone: 2.0.0)</li><li>[runtime][filetransfer][test] test proxy configurations [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/208012">208012</a>] (target milestone: 2.0.0)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Remote OSGi Services</h3><p>As ECF moves to the Runtime top-level project, the ECF remote services API will be potentially use in |
| non-Eclipse runtimes and in combination with work from other projects (e.g. P2/remote Equinox managment, etc)</p><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[remotesvcs][Discovery] Namespace semantics for discovery need to be different [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/207089">207089</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs][Discovery] Discovery may define a generic IServiceTypeID independent of providers [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/207091">207091</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs] Provide org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.IDiscoveryContainerAdapter#unregisterAllServices() [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/230180">230180</a>] (target milestone: 3.0.0)</li><li>[remotesvcs] Discovery may be configurable via OSGi configuration admin service [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/217978">217978</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs] [discovery] [ui] add filtering to discovery services view [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/218452">218452</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs] Remove create org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.identity.IServiceID by java.lang.String [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/230183">230183</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs][r-osgi] sometime exception in r-osgi on Eclipse start [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/233385">233385</a>] (target milestone: 2.0.0)</li><li>[remotesvcs] Implement RFC 119 [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/249240">249240</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[remotesvcs] add asynchronous IRemoteServiceContainerAdapter.getRemoteServiceReferences() [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/251897">251897</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>IM/Chat Features</h3><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[imchat][presence][ui] add API for contributing roster entry properties to MultiRosterView [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/208713">208713</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[imchat][irc] Add support for peer to peer file transfer [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/218117">218117</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[imchat] Add persistence to MultiRosterView (org.eclipse.ecf.presence.ui) [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/166670">166670</a>] (target milestone: 2.1.0)</li><li>[imchat][presence] API needed for creating conferences/group chats [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/182474">182474</a>] (target milestone: 1.1.0)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Application Integration</h3><p>Currently, there are only a few examples of effective integrations of ECF with existing products. We will focus on creating other integrations...e.g. with Mylyn and DSDP-TM's VNC implementation</p><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[appint] VNC-based screen sharing [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/239854">239854</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li><li>[appint] Provide ability to export/import task context via ECF communications [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/195737">195737</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Packaging and Deployment</h3><p>ECF is currently deployed as a small set (2) of features via update site. This makes the consumption of sub-components of ECF (e.g. discovery, remote services, docshare, etc) difficult. Probably using P2, ECF will make the piecewise consumption of ECF bundles easier.</p><ul><li><b>Proposed</b><ul><li>[deploy] create features or IUs for deploying components [<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/249237">249237</a>] (target milestone: ---)</li></ul></li></ul><p><a href="#toc">Table of Contents</a></p></div> |
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