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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/UI 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. </p>
<p>
<strong><a name="2"></a>[2] Reliability</strong>.
Fix critical bugs. </p>
<p>
<strong><a name="3"></a>[3] Keep Eclipse vibrant and attractive</strong>.
Investigate and implement enhancements such support for custom execution environments, p2 based target platform definitions and enhanced Equinox support. </p>
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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M1">Milestone M1 (2008-08-08)</font></font></td>
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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>
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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M2">Milestone M2 (2008-09-19)</font></font></td>
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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>
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<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>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Planning</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Declarative Services Tooling [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li> <img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Create an editor and additional tooling to handle service component definitions as defined in the OSGi specification [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242027">bug 242027</a>]</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Package Versioning Improvements [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li> <img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Come up with a plan along with the Equinox team on how to handle package versions in Eclipse </li>
<li> <img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Offer configurable settings to check for missing package versions on <b>exported packages</b> and offer potential quickfixes [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205198">bug 205198</a>]</li>
<li> <img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Offer configurable settings to check for missing package versions on <b>imported packages</b> and offer potential quickfixes [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205198">bug 205198</a>]</li>
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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M3">Milestone M3 (2008-10-31)</font></font></td>
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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"> Custom Execution Environments[<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>A joint effort between Equinox, JDT, and PDE. Equinox needs support for contributing system library profile definitions (such as J2SE-1.4, etc.). JDT needs support to associate compiler options with a system profile. PDE will set default compiler options for bundles based on the bundle's profile. Similarly, JDT will set the compiler options for a Java project. (Darin Wright, IBM) [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=238802">bug 238802</a>] </li>
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<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"> One click plug-in export and installation into development environment
(Curtis Windatt, IBM)
<ul>
<li>Leverage p2 to export and install bundles into the running SDK for testing the latest code base [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=222945">bug 222945</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Product definition enhancements
<ul>
<li>The ability to set start levels on a product [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=240737">bug 240737</a>]</li>
<li>The ability to set a validate a product [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247920">bug 247920</a>]</li>
<li>The ability to set a license on a product [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241169">bug 241169</a>]</li>
<li>The ability to create product definitions from OSGi launch configurations [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245782">bug 245782</a>]</li>
</ul>
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<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Eclipse-BundleShape
<ul>
<li>The ability to tool the Eclipse-BundleShape header [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217007">bug 217007</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Refactoring legacy PDE code base
<ul>
<li>Move PDE User Assistance tooling into a new set of plug-ins [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241145">bug 241145</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top">Performance [<a href="#1">1</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>Analyze PDE's plug-in XML builder/validation and create a performance test for it</li>
<li>Analyze PDE's OSGi state maintenance to see if can be shared with API tools </li>
<li> <img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Optimize PDE's launch configuration dialog for performance [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229073">bug 229073</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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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M4">Milestone M4 (2008-12-12)</font></font></td>
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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">Usability/Workflow [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improve target platform management
(Curtis Windatt, IBM)
<ul>
<li>Define a target platform based on an existing p2 installation of bundles</li>
<li>Support target platform definition by creating/modifying a p2 installation of bundles (download and install bundles into a target from update sites)</li>
<li>Support multiple target platform definitions in the workspace, with one active target platform that workspace projects are built against (preference page with check box for active target)</li>
<li>Support per-project target platforms</li>
<li>Support versions in target definition files</li>
<li><strong><em>Investigate</em></strong> sharing target platform definitions with a development team </li>
<li>Source code should be installed in/part of a target platform (source bundles) rather than a global setting</li>
<li>Support target management for non-p2 installs (update manager) in a similar fashion </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><img src="../../images/progress.gif" width="14" height="5"> Polish one-click export and install feature [<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249849">bug 249849</a>]
(Curtis Windatt, IBM)
<ul>
<li>Improve UI look and feel (enablement, tab interdependency, error reporting)</li>
<li>Improve metadata repository management (space issues, naming)</li>
<li>Improve robustness</li>
</ul>
</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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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M5">Milestone M5 (2009-01-30) - Major/Big Features Done</font></font></td>
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<td WIDTH="100%"><h4>Usability/Workflow [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li>[&gt;M6] Support to export source bundles from the SDK </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Target platform enhancements
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Create a new target platform model implementation and operation for setting the active target platform </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Support target definitions stored locally with workspace metadata and in the workspace as managed resources </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Migrate the existing target platform editor to work on the new model </li>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> Support multiple target platform definitions in the workspace, with one active target platform that workspace projects are built against (preference page with check box for active target)</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<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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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M6">Milestone M6 (2009-03-13) - API Freeze</font></font></td>
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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"> Usability/Workflow [<a href="#3">3</a>]</h4>
<ul>
<li><img src="../../images/ok.gif" border="0" height="10" width="10"> [&gt;from M5] Support to export source bundles from the SDK</li>
<li>Analyze dependencies on old Update Manager. If possible make PDE optionally dependant on update bundles, such that we could operate without update. </li>
</ul>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Performance </h4>
<h4><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" height="16" width="16" align="top"> Polish</h4>
<ul>
<li>Continued target platform definition enhancements
<ul>
<li>Support for optional bundles in target definitions for backwards compatibility (infrastructure only, not UI enabled)</li>
<li>Enhanced target definition resolution to provide information on missing bundles, version matching problems, and progress reporting</li>
<li>Enhanced target platform creation/edit wizard/dialogs to improve usability</li>
<li>Enhance support to append .ini VM arguments to target definitions and launch configurations </li>
<li>Documentation for new target definition UI and editor</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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<td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#595791"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Milestone_Planning_M7">Milestone M7 (2009-05-01) - Feature Freeze, Focus on Performance and Polish</font></font></td>
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