User manual | Eclipse Platform 3.1 Release Review

Eclipse Platform 3.1 Release Review
Eclipse Platform PMC
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3.1 Highlights from 10,000 Meters
J2SE 5 support
Performance & scalability
RCP is real
Tool support is improving
Misc
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3.1 Themes and Plan Items
Scaling Up
Rich Client Platform
Large-scale workspaces
RCP performance
Process improvements wrt performance
RCP infrastructure
Scalability
OSGi
Breakpoint improvements
Dynamic plug-ins
Add critical performance instrumentation
JNLP Support
Help search enhancements
Support for launcher branding
RCP performance
Provide better text editor support for RCP
Enterprise Ready
[PDE] RCP support
OSGi bundle manifest tooling
Import/export of Ant build files
Design for Extensibility: Be a Better
Platform
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Mapping logical views to physical files on disk
Improve action contributions
Generalized undo support
Content types
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3.1 Themes and Plan Items
Simple to Use
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Appealing to the Broader
Community
Overhaul preferences
Improve capabilities
Ant debugger
Ant editor improvements
Add support for J2SE 5 features
Initial user experience improvements
Improved compiler checking
Help search enhancements
Improve support for externalized strings
Pervasive context help pane
Improve program manipulation infrastructure
Debugger usability improvements
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3.1 New and Noteworthy Items Platform
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Folding in the Ant Editor
Move to Ant 1.6.5
Perspective button dragging
Managed-only plug-ins
View all available keyboard shortcuts directly from the UI
Browser widget improvements
CVS outgoing commit sets
Downloading of updates in background
Open properties dialog from active editor
Open Untitled File and improved file buffers
Ant 1.6.2 code completion
Hyperlink navigation in Ant editor
Errors now show in external Ant buildfiles
Improved Ant navigation
Ant manual at your fingertips
File names containing colon and backslash characters
JFace and Workbench support BIDI
AbstractUIPlugin no longer uses runtime compatibility layer
Field editor added for encoding support
TableViewer supports SWT.VIRTUAL
ITableColorProvider and ITableFontProvider support added to TableTreeViewer
Improved error dialog for background operations
Extra context for errors in background operations
Browser.execute(String)
GtkFileChooser
Change encoding and convert line delimiters
Support for CVSNT
Update policy file allows suppression or redirection of discovery URLs
Update site mirroring
Custom install handlers can access UI classes
Ant debugger
Multi-line text search and replace
New spinner widget
GC.setLineCap, GC.setLineJoin
Mouse wheel events
Support for executable and archive attributes
Improved layout support
SWT for Solaris-GTK+
Selection clipboard
Importing multiple projects
Property page categorization
Preferences dialog filtering
Import/Export to tar.gz format
New RCP API
CVS commit review
CVS improved file type support
CVS branch and merge
CVS filtering tags
RCP delta pack
Shared editor preferences
New hyperlink support
Import/export update sites bookmarks
Improved support for FTP update sites
Streamlined feature installation
Native tree with columns
Reorderable table columns
Windows XP look and feel for Buttons
Starting SWT standalone applications inside Eclipse is now easy
Advanced graphics
New Link widget
Don't delete config.ini
Searching in the Properties dialog
Deferred content providing
Keywords in the preferences dialogs
New Undo/Redo API
WorkbenchAdvisor API refactored
New wizard registry API
New view registry API
Import and Export specific sets of preferences
Welcome launch bar
XHTML support for authoring Welcome pages
Controls in FormText
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3.1 New and Noteworthy Items – continued
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New Help view
CVS operations on Java packages are no longer deep
Word completion
Ant "objects" presentation in the UI
Ant debugger call stack and properties
Ant target per build kind
Performance view
Preference page links
Content type preference page
Editor lookup based on content type
New capabilities preference page
Dynamic Help now available for all the dialogs
Workbench Browser support API now available
Single JAR plug-ins
Strike through and underline in StyledText
Spinner supports decimal values
Emulated table improvements
Tree supports indices
Preference for undo history size
Mark Occurrences in the Ant editor
More control over error reporting in the Ant editor
Rename in File for the Ant editor
Import existing project from archive
MessageDialog has accessible listener
Preferences and properties dialog highlights hits
Improved error part
File permissions propagated on import
Improved handling of feature dependencies
Undoing first change
Dynamic content injection in Help topics
Support for per-plug-in search index
Help system topics in welcome
HTML-based welcome on Linux and Mac OS
[Ant] system-path variable
Reconcile control in the Ant editor
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3.1 New and Noteworthy Items PDE
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Creating a new rich client application
Quick launch of an Eclipse application
Plug-in working set
Validate plug-in set prior to launch
PDE supports JAR'd plug-in format
Test with your custom configuration file
Improved plug-in manifest checking
Sharing plug-in manifest compiler settings
Improved plug-in dependencies view
RCP application template
No need to -clean
New extension point schema attributes
Improved manifest validation
Consolidated target platform
Build an Eclipse product with a single click
New feature and update site manifest editors
Manifest editor supports more OSGi bundle manifest headers
Manifest.mf validation
Create a plug-in from existing JAR
Eclipse Product Export wizard
Signed JARs
PDE enforces code accessibility
Cross-platform product export
RCP template with an intro
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3.1 New and Noteworthy Items - JDT
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Watchpoints and method entry breakpoints
Debugging 1.5 source code
New Quick fixes for serial version IDs
Enhanced hyperlink style navigation in Java editor
Highlighting of deprecated class members in the Java editor
Breakpoint groups
Support for J2SE 5.0 in Java editor
Operating on generic type parameters
Compiler diagnosis for 'enum' identifier
Convert to enhanced for loop
Pull up/push down refactoring
Rename refactoring
New Quick Assists for conditional statements
Sharing Java compiler setting
Evaluation support for generics and enhanced for loops
Early detection of references to internal classes
New Javadoc compiler settings
Searching enums, varargs and static imports
Search in generics
Varargs argument needing a cast
Code assist uses static imports
Move member type refactoring
New refactoring: Augment Raw Container Clients
Convert Anonymous Class to Nested refactoring
Move refactoring
Mark occurrences of inherited methods
Search for implement occurrences
Improved Java properties file editor
Working with externalized strings
Locks and deadlocks
Navigating stack traces
'toString()' inline
Improved breakpoint groups
Console EOF
Console encoding
Annotations
Autoboxing
New quick fixes for J2SE 5.0
Organizing workspace with many projects
New Occurrences Quick Menu
Spell checking in Properties File editor
Navigate from property key in Properties File editor to its references
Project-specific code style settings
Rerun failed tests first
User-defined logical structures
Enhanced variable value modification
Capturing program output
Multiple console views
Breakpoint organization
Find variable
Boxing/unboxing diagnosis
Assignment with no effect diagnosis for postfix expression
Searching generic methods and constructors
Searching type parameters
Source Actions
Change Signature and other refactorings are J2SE5-aware
Folding provides better captions
Usage of annotation type as super interface diagnosis
Type parameter declaration hiding another type diagnosis
Missing @Override annotation diagnosis
Incomplete enum switch statement diagnosis
Missing @Deprecated annotation diagnosis
Completion on annotation attribute
Completion on enum constant
Support for package-info.java
Code select on enum constant
Code select in Javadoc
Access rules on libraries and projects
New API to create code proposals like in the Java editor
Navigate to project-specific settings
Use Supertype Where Possible refactoring
Infer Type Generic Arguments refactoring
Filter search result matches can now be rendered differently
New search result filters for reference search for parameterized types
Externalize Strings wizards supports new message bundles
New Eclipse default built-in formatter profile
Run and Debug from editor
Javadoc attachments
New Open Type dialog
Performance improvements
New Type wizards support generics
Improved folding icons
Parameter guessing for type parameters
Support for @SuppressWarnings annotation
Support for capture conversion
Improved completion on empty word
Completion inside annotations
Support for Javadoc inside package-info.java
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Performance of 3.1RC1 relative to 3.0
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3.1 Plugin LOC Growth From 3.0
Deleted
org.eclipse.help.ide
Small (< 1000 LOC)
org.eclipse.ant.core
org.eclipse.core.filebuffers
org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime
org.eclipse.jdt.launching
org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring
org.eclipse.pde.runtime
org.eclipse.pde.core
org.eclipse.team.core
org.eclipse.team.cvs.core
org.eclipse.text
org.eclipse.tomcat
org.eclipse.ui.browser [NEW]
org.eclipse.ui.cheatsheets
org.eclipse.ui.presentations.r21
org.eclipse.ui.views
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor
org.eclipse.update.configurator
org.eclipse.update.core
org.eclipse.update.ui
Major (> 10000)
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org.eclipse.jdt.core
org.eclipse.jdt.ui
Significant (1000 – 10000 LOC)
org.eclipse.ant.ui
org.eclipse.core.commands [NEW]
org.eclipse.core.resources
org.eclipse.core.resources.compatibility [NEW]
org.eclipse.core.runtime
org.eclipse.debug.ui
org.eclipse.help.base
org.eclipse.help.ui
org.eclipse.jdt.debug
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui
org.eclipse.jface
org.eclipse.jface.text
org.eclipse.osgi
org.eclipse.pde
org.eclipse.pde.build
org.eclipse.pde.ui
org.eclipse.platform
org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86
org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui
org.eclipse.team.ui
org.eclipse.ui.console
org.eclipse.ui.editors
org.eclipse.ui.forms
org.eclipse.ui.ide
org.eclipse.ui.intro
org.eclipse.ui.workbench
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Non-Code Aspects
The 3.1 release will contain updated User and ISV documentation.
Members of the team authored several Eclipse books:
SWT by Steve Northover and Mike Wilson
RCP (in progress) by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux
FAQ by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra
Community is writing many more (approx 20) including versions for non
English speakers
http://www.eclipse.org/community/index.html
Community around key Platform technologies like SWT and RCP is
very active.
Many blogs dedicated to Eclipse http://planeteclipse.org
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Non-Code Aspects
Internationalization
Latin-1 locales are supported by the Eclipse SDK in every operating
environments;
DBCS locales are supported by the Eclipse SDK on the Windows, GTK, and Motif
window systems;
BIDI locales including support for mirroring is supported by the Eclipse SDK on
Windows
The Eclipse SDK supports GB 18030 (level 1), the Chinese code page standard,
on Windows XP and 2000, and GTK
Localization
The Eclipse platform is fully localized and externalized.
Updated message catalogs will be provided
Accessibility
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The Eclipse platform is accessible
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Non-Code Aspects
Articles, Examples and Tutorials
Eclipse.org website contains several new articles that describe new
features in the Eclipse Platform project.
Several of the articles were provided by members of the Eclipse
community.
We will review our existing articles for currency during the 3.2
development cycle.
www.google.com
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Platform Quality API
API quality is a collaborative effort that involves the experience of the
developers working on the Platform, and feedback from consumers.
API Proposals are announced publicly and documents made available for
comment
The 3.1 migration guide identifies 13 changes
In each case a description of the change, what code is affected and the steps that
need to be taken is described.
API changes between 3.0 and 3.1 have been checked by the component teams
and double checked by an automated API diff tool
We are not aware of any API compliant plugins breaking as a result of these
changes
The PMC is comfortable supporting the API that is in Eclipse Platform 3.1.
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API Changes in 3.1
JFace preferences has been migrated to use the preference support that the
Core component implemented in 3.0
IPath restrictions on valid file names has been relaxed
API calls that manipulate plug-in registry objects (e.g. IExtensionPoint,
IExtension, iConfigurationElement) now throw an unchecked exception to
identify references to invalid objects.
A new constant was added to DefaultCodeFormatterConstants.
JFace no longer requires the runtime plug-in
In 3.0 an experimental element was introduced into the
org.eclipse.ui.commands extension point. It has been removed in 3.1
Spec changes to fix a number bugs in the 3.0 specification. See migration
guide for details.
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Architectural Issues
Wider internal adoption of features from 3.0
PreferenceStore implementation was adapted to use the core API
Improved support for dynamic extension points
SWT Virtual Tables used in Problems and Task View
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End-of-Life
When evolving API the Eclipse Platform will whenever possible,
deprecate the affected API methods and continue to keep them
operational.
With the exception of the API changes identified in the migration
guide there are no end-of-life issues in 3.1.
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Bugzilla
Between July 1, 2004 and June 1, 2005
More than 18000 reports were created
9000 were fixed
5000 were resolved without changing code (duplicates, invalid etc)
Current state is:
15 blocking and 70 critical defects
6 P1 and 234 P2 defects
3.0 state was:
5 Blocker, 47 Critical
7 P1 , 249 P2
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Standards
J2SE
Our tools are built against J2SE 1.4
Clients can run 1.4 or 1.5
Compiler can generate 1.3, 1.4 and 5.0 code
OSGi
Involved in specification process for OSGi R4 (expected later this year)
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Schedule
Milestones every 6 weeks
Tracked schedule
Every milestone except M5 was delivered as promised
M5a was created to fix a change that broke EMF
Development ended at M7 on May 13 and we are in the end game
phase
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/eclipseproject-home/plans/3_1/freeze_plan.html
Anticipate completion at the end of June.
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Process
The Eclipse platform is developed using an open, transparent and
inclusive process
Platform team relies on bugzilla, newsgroups and mailing lists.
New newsgroup were added to foster the growth of the RCP
community
Weekly planning calls conducted with the PMC and Component
leads
Minutes posted to eclipse-dev mailing list
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Community
The Eclipse Platform team is active in bugzilla, mailing lists and newsgroups
Several teams are using the eclipse-dev IRC channel
irc.freenode.net#eclipse-dev
Several committers have started blogs and planeteclipse
http://planeteclipse.org/
The Eclipse Platform team participates in codecamps, conference
presentations and tutorials
Including JavaOne, WWDC, EclipseCon, OOPSLA, SDWest, JavaWorld, OSGi
World,
The Eclipse Platform team interacts with other open source projects,
standards bodies as well as other projects at eclipse.org
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Including: Apache Ant, OSGi, JLS
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Community
Google hits for searching for "eclipse 3.1 M<x>
140000
120000
100000
Google hits for
searching for
"eclipse 3.1
M<x>
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7
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IP Issues
No outstanding IP issues
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Project Plan
Draft Eclipse 3.2 plan posted
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_2.html
Key Themes
Scaling Up
Enterprise Ready
Be a Better Platform
Simple to Use
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