ESE2008: WTP Update

Web Tools Platform Project Update | © 2008 Kaloyan Raev; made available under the EPL v1.0

Web Tools Platform Project Update

Kaloyan Raev

WTP PMC Member

[email protected]


What is this talk about?

Overview of the WTP project

New features in Ganymede

WTP 3.0.x maintenance

Planned new releases

What’s in the Incubator

Some ideas for future development

Community resources


History

June 2004 – project found

July 2005 – WTP 0.7

December 2005 – WTP 1.0

June 2006 – WTP 1.5 Callisto

June 2007 – WTP 2.0 Europa

June 2008 – WTP 3.0 Ganymede

November 2008 – WTP 3.0.3


Contributing companies

Original code contributed by IBM and eteration

Other companies joined later: SAP, Oracle, SAS and others


Current sub-project structure

Common

Dali (JPA Tools)

EJB Tools

Java EE Tools

JSF Tools

Server Tools

Source Editing

Web Services

Release Engineering

WTP Incubator

ATF (incubating)

Datatools (RDB)


New features in Ganymede

Common Tools

Dali JPA Tools

Java EE and EJB Tools

JavaServer Faces Tools

Server Tools

Web Services and WSDL Tools

Incubator

News & Noteworthy


Common Tools

Improved Validation

News & Noteworthy

Temporarily suspend all validation


Dali JPA Tools »

Generic Persistence XML Editor


Dali JPA Tools »

EclipseLink persistence.xml support


Dali JPA Tools »

New XML Mapping File wizard

New Entity wizard


Dali JPA Tools

JPA Project Explorer

EclipseLink: High-Performance Java Persistence (link)

Wednesday, 17:25, Bürgersaal 1

News & Noteworthy


Java EE Tools and EJB Tools »

Improved Servlet wizard

New Servlet Filter wizard

New Application Lifecycle Listeners wizard



EJB 3.0 wizards Session Bean

Message-Driven Bean



Overview of the Java EE metadata in the Project Explorer


Java EE Tools and EJB Tools

Library Directory support for EAR 5 projects

News & Noteworthy


JavaServer Faces Tools »

Support for Apache MyFaces Trinidad



Component Tree View



Tag Registry View


JavaServer Faces Tools

Incubator: JSF Facelets Tools

ESE 2008 Talk: Facelet Support in Ganymede (link) Thursday, 10:25, Schubartsaal

News & Noteworthy


Server Tools »

Downloadable Jetty support


Server Tools

More specific Start and Stop Timeouts

News & Noteworthy


Source Editing »

Sibling and Matching Tag navigation


Source Editing

JavaScript Development Tools

News & Noteworthy


Web Services and WSDL Tools »

Create Web service by selecting Java bean in Java project

Better extensibilities build into the Web services runtime extensions

Axis Web services now run on different servers


Web Services and WSDL Tools

Zoom In/Zoom Out in WSDL editor

News & Noteworthy


XSL Tools »

XML perspective


XSL Tools »

Content Assist Variable

XPath

AXIS


XSL Tools

Stylesheet validation

News & Noteworthy


WTP 3.0.x maintenance

Amazing improvement in quality

Release Bugs fixed

3.0.1 298

3.0.2 (Ganymede SR1) 101

3.0.3 176

Total 575

WTP 3.0.3 released on 14 November 2008

WTP 3.0.4 planned with Ganymede SR2 – 25 February 2009


Planned new releases

Date Release Note

25 February 2009 WTP 3.0.4 Ganymede SR2

19 December 2008 Dali 2.1 Extra feature release

26 June 2009 WTP 3.1 Galileo



Incubating

XSL Tools (proposal, wiki)

JSF Facelets Tools (proposal, wiki)

JAX WS Tools (proposal)



Proposals

Visual Editor for XML (VEX) (proposal, bugzilla)

XML Security Tools (proposal, bugzilla)

XQuery Development Toolkit (proposal, bugzilla)


Update of the Java EE perspective

Call for screenshots!

UI Walkthrough notes

Bugzilla


Vertically oriented Servers view

Bugzilla


Servers view based on Common Navigator

Common view for different external services AppServer, DBs, SCM repositories, etc.

May have different variations based on use cases

Initial version will combine WTP’s servers and DTP’s databases

Bugzilla


Faceted Project Framework goes to Technology

The Faceted Project Framework is part of the WTP Common project

Plans to move the project to the Technology top-level project See proposal

Could participate in e4 as next generation natures


Community resources

Mailing lists

Newsgroups

CVS

Bugzilla


Bug backlog

Current backlog: 3,630

HELP WANTED!Become a contributor/committer!

This chart is not very accurate!


Educational resources


Books about WTP


Other talks related to WTP

EclipseLink: High-Performance Java Persistence (link) Wednesday, 17:25, Bürgersaal 1

Facelet Support in Ganymede (link) Thursday, 10:25, Schubartsaal


Q & A

Website: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools

Newsgroups: eclipse.webtools

[email protected] http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/raev/

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