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 <h1>WTP Incubator Project</h1>

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 <H2>Purpose</H2>
 <P>This proposal is to create a generic, general purpose WTP Incubator
 Project. It is similar to the <A
 	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/platform-incubator/">Proposal
 for Eclipse Project Incubator</A> which was reviewed and approved in
 March, 2007.</P>
 <P>The WTP Incubator Project would be the home for any incubating
 component work from any project in the <A
 	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/">WTP Top Level Project</A>. See
 <A
 	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/devProcess/wtpProjects/WTP%20Projects.pdf">Eclipse
 Web Tools Platform Projects</A> for the current description of the 11
 WTP Projects. In the table of 8 primary projects below, I've omitted
 ATF, since it itself is incubating and RDB, since it is quiescent, and
 Release Engineering since, well, since it's release engineering.</P>

 <p>Please send all feedback to the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.webtools.platform">http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.webtools.platform</a> newsgroup.

 	<P ALIGN=CENTER
 		STYLE="margin-top: 0.24in; margin-bottom: 0.24in; background: transparent; font-style: normal; page-break-inside: auto">
 	<B>Primary Projects and Project Leads</B></P>


 <CENTER>
 <TABLE WIDTH=80% BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=2
 	CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-inside: avoid">
 	<COL WIDTH=154*>
 	<COL WIDTH=102*>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TH WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Project</P>
 		</TH>
 		<TH WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Project Lead</P>
 		</TH>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Common: tools and infrastructure not directly related to web tools,
 		but required by web tools</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Konstantin Komissarchik, BEA</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Server Tools: tools and infrastructure to define and interact with
 		servers.</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Tim Deboer, IBM</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Source Editors: xml, dtd, xsd (and sse infrastructure) html, css,
 		javascript, jsp</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Nitin Dahyabhai, IBM</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Web Services: wsdl, axis1, axis2, web services framework, web
 		services explorer</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Kathy Chan, IBM</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Java EE Tools: Common Project Infrastructure, jee models,
 		preferences, classpath model, publish api, refactoring</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Chuck Bridgham, IBM</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>EJB Tools: EJB creation wizards, preferences, future annotation
 		tools</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Naci Dai, eteration</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>JSF Tools: infrastructure and tools for JSF</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Raghu Srinivasan, Oracle</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
 		<TD WIDTH=60%>
 		<P>Dali (JPA Tools): infrastructure and tools for JPA applications</P>
 		</TD>
 		<TD WIDTH=40%>
 		<P>Neil Hauge, Oracle</P>
 		</TD>
 	</TR>
 </TABLE>
 </CENTER>
 <H2></H2>
 <H2>Expected Advantages</H2>
 <P>The following are some of the primary motivations for formalizing a
 WTP Incubator Project.</P>
 <H3>Agile IP Policy</H3>
 <P>The new (2007) Eclipse Foundation IP guidelines for projects under
 incubation have taken into account the special needs of projects in
 incubation. See section 1V of the <A
 	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_IP_Policy.pdf">Intellectual
 Property Policy</A> (DUE DILIGENCE AND RECORD KEEPING) given the project
 well identifies itself as incubating, see <A
 	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/parallel-ip-process.php">Guidelines
 for Using the Parallel IP Process.</A></P>
 <H3>Lower barrier for new contributors</H3>
 <P>Potential for improved community involvement as it can make it easier
 to get started with contributions.</P>
 <H3>Improved Cross-Project work</H3>
 <P>Can potentially provide an area for experimental work to be conducted
 and reviewed for improved cross-project operation, before firm
 commitments made to main line code.</P>
 <H2>General Examples</H2>
 <UL>
 	<LI>
 	<P>Dependencies on external IP that has not yet cleared the full
 	Eclipse Foundation IP process</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Experimental work that needs many iteration and much investigation</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Potentially destabilizing work that requires extended community
 	review</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Long term work that can not necessarily be contained within the next
 	planned release</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Work from potential new committers which have a start with some new
 	code, but not necessarily yet a long track record of sustained high
 	quality Eclipse development</P>

 </UL>
 <H2>Specific examples</H2>
 <P>Even though this is seen as a long term, ongoing need, there are a
 few current cases where this WTP Incubating Project could be helpful:</P>
 <UL>
 	<LI VALUE=1>
 	<P>XSL Tools (bugs 89469, 201954, 201951)</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>TLD Editor (bug 196418)</P>

 </UL>
 <H2>Scope</H2>
 <P>Focus on new development in areas that are relevant to and within
 scope of any other WTP Project sub-project, which because of their
 nature, would not be appropriate for immediate inclusion in the
 sub-project, but which, by their nature, do still require good
 visibility or wide availability.</P>
 <P>Note, this is unlike, and no substitute for, the temporary branching
 efforts, which most projects use from time to time, when they have some
 short life changes to explore, usually just existing for a few weeks,
 and usually not needing wide spread review or availability.</P>
 <H2>Not in Scope</H2>
 <P>A sandbox, but not a playground: only efforts that can reasonably be
 expected to graduate at some point are appropriate.</P>
 <P>It is also not intended to substitute for large, completely new
 efforts which would deserve to be a new incubating project in its own
 right.</P>
 <H2>Mentors</H2>
 <ul>
 <li>Tim DeBoer, IBM</li>
 <li>David Williams, IBM</li>
 </ul>
 <H2>Organization and Initial Committers</H2>
 <P>The WTP Incubator Project Lead will be David Williams, IBM</P>
 <P>The Initial committers, listed below, will consist of all the current
 primary Project Leads in WTP plus Craig Salter (since one of the first
 uses may be for XSL, for which Craig is the component Lead).</P>
 <P>This distinguished group will form the seed committers to oversee the
 success of this project, even if most have no initial contributions nor
 immediate need for incubating code. While all current and future
 projects in WTP can have incubating components here, all future
 committers will need to be decided by this group, using the usual
 Eclipse Project rules: either voted in by current committers, based on
 the individual's public history of appropriate Eclipse contributions, or
 a large component contributed, which itself would be approved by current
 WTP Incubator Project committers, which would have to come with its own
 list of initial committers.</P>
 <UL>
 	<LI VALUE=1>
 	<P>Konstantin Komissarchik, BEA</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Tim Deboer, IBM</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Nitin Dahyabhai, IBM</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Kathy Chan, IBM</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Chuck Bridgham, IBM</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Naci Dai, eteration</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Raghu Srinivasan, Oracle</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>Neil Hauge, Oracle</P>


 	<LI>
 	<P>David Williams, IBM</P>

 </UL>
 <H2></H2>
 <H2>References</H2>
 <P>There are several background documents that describe Eclipse Projects
 in general.</P>
 <P><A
   HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php">Eclipse
 Development Process</A> especially see the <A
   HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#6_2_3_Incubation">section
 on incubation</A></P>
 <P><A HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/official-documents.php">Official
 Documents Pertaining to Projects</A></P>
 <P><A HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/">Governance
 Documents</A></P>


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	<h1>WTP Incubator Project</h1>

	<?php
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	<H2>Purpose</H2>
	<P>This proposal is to create a generic, general purpose WTP Incubator
	Project. It is similar to the <A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/platform-incubator/">Proposal
	for Eclipse Project Incubator</A> which was reviewed and approved in
	March, 2007.</P>
	<P>The WTP Incubator Project would be the home for any incubating
	component work from any project in the <A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/">WTP Top Level Project</A>. See
	<A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/devProcess/wtpProjects/WTP%20Projects.pdf">Eclipse
	Web Tools Platform Projects</A> for the current description of the 11
	WTP Projects. In the table of 8 primary projects below, I've omitted
	ATF, since it itself is incubating and RDB, since it is quiescent, and
	Release Engineering since, well, since it's release engineering.</P>

	<p>Please send all feedback to the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.webtools.platform">http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.webtools.platform</a> newsgroup.

	<P ALIGN=CENTER
	STYLE="margin-top: 0.24in; margin-bottom: 0.24in; background: transparent; font-style: normal; page-break-inside: auto">
	<B>Primary Projects and Project Leads</B></P>


	<CENTER>
	<TABLE WIDTH=80% BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=2
	CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-inside: avoid">
	<COL WIDTH=154*>
	<COL WIDTH=102*>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TH WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Project</P>
	</TH>
	<TH WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Project Lead</P>
	</TH>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Common: tools and infrastructure not directly related to web tools,
	but required by web tools</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Konstantin Komissarchik, BEA</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Server Tools: tools and infrastructure to define and interact with
	servers.</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Tim Deboer, IBM</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Source Editors: xml, dtd, xsd (and sse infrastructure) html, css,
	javascript, jsp</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Nitin Dahyabhai, IBM</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Web Services: wsdl, axis1, axis2, web services framework, web
	services explorer</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Kathy Chan, IBM</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Java EE Tools: Common Project Infrastructure, jee models,
	preferences, classpath model, publish api, refactoring</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Chuck Bridgham, IBM</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>EJB Tools: EJB creation wizards, preferences, future annotation
	tools</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Naci Dai, eteration</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>JSF Tools: infrastructure and tools for JSF</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Raghu Srinivasan, Oracle</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR VALIGN=TOP>
	<TD WIDTH=60%>
	<P>Dali (JPA Tools): infrastructure and tools for JPA applications</P>
	</TD>
	<TD WIDTH=40%>
	<P>Neil Hauge, Oracle</P>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	</TABLE>
	</CENTER>
	<H2></H2>
	<H2>Expected Advantages</H2>
	<P>The following are some of the primary motivations for formalizing a
	WTP Incubator Project.</P>
	<H3>Agile IP Policy</H3>
	<P>The new (2007) Eclipse Foundation IP guidelines for projects under
	incubation have taken into account the special needs of projects in
	incubation. See section 1V of the <A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_IP_Policy.pdf">Intellectual
	Property Policy</A> (DUE DILIGENCE AND RECORD KEEPING) given the project
	well identifies itself as incubating, see <A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/parallel-ip-process.php">Guidelines
	for Using the Parallel IP Process.</A></P>
	<H3>Lower barrier for new contributors</H3>
	<P>Potential for improved community involvement as it can make it easier
	to get started with contributions.</P>
	<H3>Improved Cross-Project work</H3>
	<P>Can potentially provide an area for experimental work to be conducted
	and reviewed for improved cross-project operation, before firm
	commitments made to main line code.</P>
	<H2>General Examples</H2>
	<UL>
	<LI>
	<P>Dependencies on external IP that has not yet cleared the full
	Eclipse Foundation IP process</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Experimental work that needs many iteration and much investigation</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Potentially destabilizing work that requires extended community
	review</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Long term work that can not necessarily be contained within the next
	planned release</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Work from potential new committers which have a start with some new
	code, but not necessarily yet a long track record of sustained high
	quality Eclipse development</P>

	</UL>
	<H2>Specific examples</H2>
	<P>Even though this is seen as a long term, ongoing need, there are a
	few current cases where this WTP Incubating Project could be helpful:</P>
	<UL>
	<LI VALUE=1>
	<P>XSL Tools (bugs 89469, 201954, 201951)</P>


	<LI>
	<P>TLD Editor (bug 196418)</P>

	</UL>
	<H2>Scope</H2>
	<P>Focus on new development in areas that are relevant to and within
	scope of any other WTP Project sub-project, which because of their
	nature, would not be appropriate for immediate inclusion in the
	sub-project, but which, by their nature, do still require good
	visibility or wide availability.</P>
	<P>Note, this is unlike, and no substitute for, the temporary branching
	efforts, which most projects use from time to time, when they have some
	short life changes to explore, usually just existing for a few weeks,
	and usually not needing wide spread review or availability.</P>
	<H2>Not in Scope</H2>
	<P>A sandbox, but not a playground: only efforts that can reasonably be
	expected to graduate at some point are appropriate.</P>
	<P>It is also not intended to substitute for large, completely new
	efforts which would deserve to be a new incubating project in its own
	right.</P>
	<H2>Mentors</H2>
	<ul>
	<li>Tim DeBoer, IBM</li>
	<li>David Williams, IBM</li>
	</ul>
	<H2>Organization and Initial Committers</H2>
	<P>The WTP Incubator Project Lead will be David Williams, IBM</P>
	<P>The Initial committers, listed below, will consist of all the current
	primary Project Leads in WTP plus Craig Salter (since one of the first
	uses may be for XSL, for which Craig is the component Lead).</P>
	<P>This distinguished group will form the seed committers to oversee the
	success of this project, even if most have no initial contributions nor
	immediate need for incubating code. While all current and future
	projects in WTP can have incubating components here, all future
	committers will need to be decided by this group, using the usual
	Eclipse Project rules: either voted in by current committers, based on
	the individual's public history of appropriate Eclipse contributions, or
	a large component contributed, which itself would be approved by current
	WTP Incubator Project committers, which would have to come with its own
	list of initial committers.</P>
	<UL>
	<LI VALUE=1>
	<P>Konstantin Komissarchik, BEA</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Tim Deboer, IBM</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Nitin Dahyabhai, IBM</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Kathy Chan, IBM</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Chuck Bridgham, IBM</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Naci Dai, eteration</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Raghu Srinivasan, Oracle</P>


	<LI>
	<P>Neil Hauge, Oracle</P>


	<LI>
	<P>David Williams, IBM</P>

	</UL>
	<H2></H2>
	<H2>References</H2>
	<P>There are several background documents that describe Eclipse Projects
	in general.</P>
	<P><A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php">Eclipse
	Development Process</A> especially see the <A
	HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php#6_2_3_Incubation">section
	on incubation</A></P>
	<P><A HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/official-documents.php">Official
	Documents Pertaining to Projects</A></P>
	<P><A HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/">Governance
	Documents</A></P>


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