development/index.xml

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<sections title="wtp project development"
	subtitle="Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project Development">
	<meta name="root" content="../.." />
	<section class="infobox" name="Releases"
		icon="../images/download.gif">
		<item>
			<a href="http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/">
				Downloads
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="/webtools/development/news/main.php">
				Release Notes
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/index_pmc_call_notes.php">
				PMC Meetings
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/ip_log.html">
				WTP IP Log
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Web_Tools_Requirements">
				Project Requirements and Roadmaps
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/arch_and_design/arch_page.html">
				Architecture Group
			</a>
		</item>
        <!-- 
		<item title="WTP 2.0" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif" />
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Web_Tools_Requirements_2.0">
				Project Plan
			</a>
		</item>
		<item title="WTP 1.5" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif" />
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Web_Tools_Requirements_1.5">
				Project Plan
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5/">
				Release Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5/#Bugzilla">
				Bug List Reports
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5/#Milestone-Plans">
				Milestone Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5/#Test-Plans">
				Test Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.5/reports/performance.html">
				Performance Improvement Plan
			</a>
		</item>
		<item title="WTP 1.0" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif" />
		<item>
			<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/">
				Release Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/#Bugzilla">
				Bug List Reports
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/#Milestone-Plans">
				Milestone Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/#Test-Plans">
				Test Plans
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/eclipse_WTP_project_plan_1_0.html">
				Project Plan
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/reports/performance.html">
				Performance Improvement Plan
			</a>
		</item>
        -->
	</section>
	<section class="infobox" name="Mailing Lists">
		<description>
			WTP mailing lists are meant for discussion of development of
			the WTP project itself. For all other questions please use
			the
			<a href="../community/community.html#help">newsgroup</a>
			and report bugs through
			<a
				href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/query.cgi?product=Web%20Tools">
				Bugzilla
			</a>
			.
		</description>
		<item title="wtp-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues.
		</item>
		<item title="wtp-wst-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-wst-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Web Standard Tools developer discussions.
		</item>
		<item title="wtp-jst-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-jst-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			J2EE Standard Tools developer discussions
		</item>
		<item title="wtp-jsf-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-jsf-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			JavaServer Faces Tools developer discussions
		</item>
		<item title="dali-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dali-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Dali EJB ORM developer discussions
		</item>
		<item title="atf-dev"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/atf-dev"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			AJAX Toolkit Framework developer discussions
		</item>
		<item title="wtp-releng"
			link="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-releng"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Release engineering discussions and notifications.
		</item>
        <!-- no longer used 
		<item title="wtp-requirements"
			link="http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-requirements"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Discussions of project-wide requirements.
		</item>
        -->
		<item title="wtp-pmc"
			link="http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-pmc"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			WTP PMC communications (including coordination,
			announcements, and Group discussions)
		</item>
	</section>
	<section class="infobox" name="Related Projects">
		<item title="Eclipse Projects" />
		<item>
			<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/xsd/" target="_top">XSD</a>
			XML Schema Infoset Model
		</item>
		<item title="Apache Projects" />
		<item>
			<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/" target="_top">Axis</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/projects/derby.html"
				target="_top">
				Derby
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://geronimo.apache.org/" target="_top">
				Geronimo
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html"
				target="_top">
				Tomcat
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/woden/"
				target="_top">
				Woden
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/" target="_top">
				Xerces
			</a>
		</item>
		<item title="Other Projects" />
		<item>
			<a href="http://www.jboss.org/products/jbossas"
				target="_top">
				JBoss Application Server
			</a>
		</item>
		<item>
			<a href="http://jonas.objectweb.org/" target="_top">
				JOnAS application server
			</a>
		</item>
	</section>

	<section class="main" name="Development Tools">
		<section name="Help Wanted"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/plans/1.0/reports/help-wanted.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			If you would like to contribute to the project, read this
			page to find work items.
		</section>
		<section name="Bug Reports"
			link="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Web%20Tools"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			The WTP uses
			<a target="_top" href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/">
				Bugzilla
			</a>
			for bug tracking.
			<a href="bugs/bugs.html">View WTP bug reports</a>
			or
			<a target="_top"
				href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Web%20Tools">
				open new bugs.
			</a>
		</section>
		<section name="Eclipse API Scanner"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/apiscanner/apiscanner.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Describe the API of a component and scan plug-ins for API
			violations.
			<a
				href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/apiscanner/reports/main.html">
				View WTP Usage Scan Reports
			</a>
		</section>
		<section name="Check Unused Properties Tool"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/piitools/piitools.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Scan property files for unused messages.
		</section>
		<section name="Technical Proposals"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/proposals/index.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Review available technical proposals.
		</section>
		<section name="CVS Repository"
			link="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/?cvsroot=WebTools_Project"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			WTP development is carried out in a CVS repository. Both
			"pserver" and "extssh" are supported. See
			<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/cvshowto.html">
				Using Eclipse with CVS
			</a>
			for instructions including the repository location.
			<!-- Use :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/webtools to access the repository. -->
		</section>
		<section name="HTTP Connection Tracer Diagnostic Utility"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/httptracerutility/index.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Use this utility to troubleshoot network connection problems
			in Eclipse.
		</section>
	</section>
	<section class="main"
		name="Development Resources - Learn about WTP Development">
		<section name="Contributing to the WTP Project"
			link="contributing.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Learn what's involved in developing and contributing
			enhancements or new capabilities for the WTP.
		</section>
		<section name="Build Process"
			link="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/*checkout*/org.eclipse.wtp.releng/readme.html?cvsroot=WebTools_Project"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			The WTP continuous build process is modeled after other
			Eclipse project build processes. For more information, visit
			the
			<a
				href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/WTP_Build_Process_and_Procedures">
				associated WTP wiki page.
			</a>
		</section>
		<section name="WTP 1.5 Maintenance Stream Process"
			link="maintenance/1.5/R1_5_maintenance.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			This document talks about how to create and work with a
			maintenance stream/branch.
		</section>
		<section name="Platform Quality APIs"
			link="arch_and_design/pq-apis-20041115.ppt"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			A presentation given by Jim des Rivières to some component
			teams in Raleigh, N.C., on 11/15/2004. It describes some
			principles and tips on producing platform quality designs
			and APIs. See slide 28 for a little laugh.
		</section>
		<section name="Conventions and Guidelines"
			link="guidelines/naming-conventions.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Look here for the for the coding standards, naming
			conventions, and other guidelines we use to help ensure
			eclipse presents to users and developers as a unified whole
			rather than as a loose collection of parts.
		</section>
		<section name="Architectural Overview"
			link="arch_and_design/ArchitectureOverview.html"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			A high level summary of the components and their
			architecture.
		</section>
		<section name="Status Telecons"
			link="http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Development_Status_Meetings"
			icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Weekly development telecons to review status and discuss
			issues.
		</section>
		<section name="Project Requirements"
			link="requirements/index.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			A description of the project requirements, requirements
			group, and requirements process.
		</section>
		<section name="Documents" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			<a href="../faq/CommitterFAQ.php">Committer FAQ</a>
			<br />
			<a href="tests.html">Automated Testing</a>
			<br />
			<a href="WTPDevelopmentPractice.html">
				Development Practices
			</a>
			<br />
			<a
				href="../community/tutorials/DevelopingWTP/DevelopingWTP.html">
				Developing the WTP with Eclipse
			</a>
			<br />
			<a
				href="arch_and_design/capabilities/WTPCapabilities.html">
				WTP Capabilities Description
			</a>
			<br />
			<a
				href="arch_and_design/subsystems/SubsystemsAndFeatures.html">
				WTP Subsystems and Features
			</a>
		</section>
		<!-- section name="Development Practices" link="WTPDevelopmentPractice.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			This document describes guidelines, procedures, and "best practices" for WTP development.
			</section-->
		<section name="Contributors and Committers"
			link="../people/contributors.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			List of Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project contributors and
			<a href="http://eclipse.org/webtools/commit.html">committers.</a>
		</section>
		<!-- section name="Automated Testing" link="tests.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			This document outlines the principles of WTP automated testing. It also provides some guidelines for creating and running test cases.
			</section-->
		<section name="Components and Teams"
			link="../devProcess/devTeams.html" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif">
			Look here for details about the components and associated
			team members, grouped by subproject.
		</section>
		<section name="WTP IP Log" icon="../../images/Adarrow.gif"
			link="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/ip_log.html">
			Look here for the WTP intellectual property log.
		</section>
	</section>
	<section class="main" name="Initial WTP Code Contributions">
		<description>
			<a href="http://www.ibm.com" target="_top">IBM</a>
			and
			<a href="http://www.objectweb.org/" target="_top">
				ObjectWeb
			</a>
			provided initial code contributions to start the Web Tools
			Platform project. This code is has been moved into the
			<a
				href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/?cvsroot=WebTools_Project">
				CVS repository.
			</a>
			<br />
			<br />
			The initial code contribution from IBM is now available as
			the
			<a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/webtools"
				target="_top">
				IBM Web Tools for Eclipse
			</a>
			project hosted by
			<a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com" target="_top">
				alphaWorks.
			</a>
		</description>
	</section>
</sections>