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| <h1>Silverlight Development Toolkit - SLDT</h1>
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| <h2>Introduction</h2>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="http://silverlight.net/">Microsoft Silverlight</a> is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. </span></p>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. </span></p>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Both Microsoft Silverlight and Eclipse technologies focus on delivering a rich, differentiating and interoperable environment to their respective audiences: Web Users and Developers respectively.</span></p>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">By integrating the Microsoft Silverlight technology with the Eclipse platform, this project proposes to extend the Silverlight Development Experience to all Web Application Developers should they be running Windows, Linux or Mac OS.</span></p> |
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| The Silverlight Development Toolkit (SLDT) is a proposed open-source project under the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php">Eclipse Development Process</a>, and will incubate |
| under the top-level Technology project. This proposal is posted here to solicit community |
| feedback and additional project participation. You are invited to comment on and/or |
| join the project. Please send all feedback to the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.sldt"> eclipse.sldt newsgroup</a>. |
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| <h2>Scope</h2>
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| <p>The purpose of this project is to provide a cross-platform development environment to build the RIA Web application on Microsoft Silverlight. It consists in a set of Eclipse plug-ins that address two main issues:
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| Silverlight applications development, and easing the integration of Java-based web sites and services into Silverlight applications.
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| <h3>Silverlight applications development</h3>
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| <p>This environment provides the all necessary tools to simplfy the RIA Web development on Microsoft Silverlight. It is composed of the following groups of tools:</p>
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| <li><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Silverlight project creation and resource management </span> </li>
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| <li><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">XAML visual editor with instant preview </span> </li>
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| <li>Controller class editors for most used programming languages such as C#, Java and JavaScript </li>
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| <li>Build, run and debug</li>
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| <h3>Integration between Silverlight and Java-based web sites and services</h3>
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| <p>In today’s heterogeneous computing environments and with the emergence of Web services and service-oriented architectures, interoperability has become a critical business and IT need. The interoperability between Silverlight and Java middle wares is the main focus of this project. Based on the standard technologies, this project will propose the common patterns with necessary tools, best practices, or out-of-the box solutions to help developers to connect quickly the RIA Web application on Microsoft Silverlight with Java-based enterprise services.</p>
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| <h2>Relationship with Other Eclipse Projects/Components</h2>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">SLDT leverages the Eclipse platform blocks to provide features such as resource management, source edition, code generation, build and launch of applications. WTP components are the most heavily used. </span></p>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">SLDT also extends the following components:</span></p>
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| <li>XML editor</li>
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| <li>Java Script editor</li>
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| <li>HTML editor </li>
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| <h2>Organization</h2>
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| <h3>Mentors</h3>
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| <li>Ed Merks</li>
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| <li>Wayne Beaton</li>
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| <h3>Initial Committers</h3>
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| The initial committers for this component would be:
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| <li>Yves Yang (<a href="http://www.soyatec.com/">Soyatec</a>), proposed project lead</li>
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| <li>Thomas Guiu (<a href="http://www.soyatec.com/">Soyatec</a>), Committer</li>
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| <li>Bo Zhou (<a href="http://www.soyatec.com/">Soyatec</a>), Committer</li>
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| <li>Bing Qian (<a href="http://www.soyatec.com/">Soyatec</a>), Committer</li>
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| <li>Jin Liu (<a href="http://www.soyatec.com/">Soyatec</a>), Committer</li>
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| <li>Remy Chi Jian Suen (<a href="mailto:remy.suen@gmail.com">independent</a>), Committer</li>
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| <h3>Code Contributions</h3>
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| <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Soyatec offers an initial code donation, which </span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> is hosted on sourceforge: <a title="blocked::http://eclipse4sl.sourceforge.net/" href="http://eclipse4sl.sourceforge.net">http://eclipse4sl.sourceforge.net</a>. </span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">The SLDT implementation consists in Java packages : the org.eclipse.wtp.sldt.* namespace. </span>
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| <h3><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Interested Parties</span></strong></h3>
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| <p>Interest in this project has been expressed by</p>
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| <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a></li>
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| <li><a href="http://www.soyatec.com">Soyatec</a></li>
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| <li><a href="http://www.cas.de">CAS</a></li>
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| <li>Reinhold Bihler <a href="mailto:reinhold.bihler@gmx.de">reinhold.bihler@gmx.de</a></li>
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| <li><a href="http://www.effisoft.com">effisoft-group</a></li>
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| <h3><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Developer Community</span></strong></h3>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">The team of initial committers will explore statements of interest from additional developers experienced in Web and UI development or willing to gain such experience. </span></p>
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| <h3><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">User Community</span></strong></h3>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">It is expected that the user community for this component will consist primarily of Web developers, given that it is essentially tools for building RIA Web applications for the Microsoft Silverlight technology, connecting to Java Business Logic.</span></p>
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| <h3><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Project Plan</span></strong></h3>
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| <p>The first official release of the project will be released arround Janurary 2009. The goal of this release is to <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">meet the key requirements for Silverlight development in Eclipse by providing a toolkit covering the entire development cycle :</span></p>
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| <li><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Silverlight project creation and resource management </span> </li>
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| <li><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">XAML editor with immediate preview </span> </li>
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| <li>C# and JavaScript editor </li>
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| <li>Build and run </li>
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| <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">More advanced features will be released in Spring 2009. Summer major release is planned for June 2009 aligned with annual release of Eclipse.</span></p>
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| <p>Afterwards, we will focus on interoperability between Silverlight and Java, but also on bringing the development story to other platforms (Apple, Linux…)</p>
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