Weekly Development Conference Call: Tuesday - March 20, 2007 @ 10:00 AM EDT

The next Corona development conference call is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:00 EDT.

 

Please see the wiki for details: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Corona_Development_Meeting

 

Corona Development Conference Call: Tuesday, Mar 13, 2007 10:00 AM EST

 

Meeting Minutes

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Attendees

• Dennis O'Flynn
• Jim Wright
• Joel Hawkins
• Glenn Everitt
• Paul Styles
• Brian Roberts
• Pawel Kaczmarek
• Edyta Kalka
• Marcin Okraszewski
• Piotr Jaworowski

 

Minutes

News and Noteworthy

Marcin: The platform has closed the proxy bugz item.  Proxy settings are now be consolidated in a single location for reference by all plug-ins.

 

Brian: Oracle announced Strategic Membership

 

Community Building

Dennis: Bryan Hunt (via newsgroup) had some confusion over Eclipse collaboration projects.  He assumed that Corona, as a “collaboration framework”, was involved with ECF’s (“communication framework”) example applications since they provide collaboration type of functionality.

 

Marcin: It would be nice if Eclipse projects would coordinate their exemplary applications to provide more a cohesive solution.

 

Paul: Need to follow-up w/ Technology Project’s F2F that was held in January.

 

API Refactoring

Glenn: 1^st pass focused on removing dead code.  Next step is focused on refactoring Container, ContainerManager interfaces.  Goal is to simplify the use of context container.

 

Pawel: Will there be changes to configuration?  Impact of SystemContainer could be large.

Glenn: Configuration changes – yes.  Refactoring conflicts will cause some pain.  Suggested use of time zone differences between Gdansk and Detroit to minimize merge conflict. 

 

Glenn: Additional time is being spent considering “new” design ideas instead.

Marcin: “A lot of time!̶1;

 

Jim: Suggested that we expose extended methods for web services.

Glenn: Stated it was a design decision not to expose the inherited methods.  If the method is to be exposed, it must be defined the referenced interface.

Joel: It would be possible to use annotations to govern what methods are exposed.  We would need to define either an “opt-in” or “opt-out” model.

Dennis: Suggested this would be an enhancement for Corona 1.x release.

 

Europa Release Engineering

Dennis: Every plug-in is required to have an “about.htmlR21; that contains a brief description of the plug-in, the EPL, as well as all 3^rd party licenses.  This will be required for Corona’s Release Review.

 

Pawel: no release engineering task have been done this past week.

 

Marcin: Should be no problem moving our release engineering to Eclipse build server.  Recommends we move to Eclipse build server after next milestone build.

 

Exemplary Implementation

Marcin: Having been focusing how the Project model (ProcjectContainer, UI, etc…) uses the collaboration framework (ContextContainer, ContainerManager).  Work has been done w/ API Refactoring.

 

Piotr: Refactoring ProjectContainerExplorer to more generic ContextContainerExplorer (CCX).  Support for specific container type actions.

Glenn: Can provide custom actions now, however, they are subject to change “location”; due to API Refactoring.

 

Piotr: Jackrabbit repository access can be done in background.  J 

 

Marcin: CCX is now independent from Project model.  Needs to reside in its own plug-in, not in a “project” plug-in.

 

Piotr: Request other team members test/verify CCX to provide feedback.

 

Server-Side Test Framework

Pawel: A few server-side tests are being performed during each build.

 

Marcin: We should the Eclipse releng test framework for build process.  JUnit 3.81. is required.

 

Marcin: The WSDM test framework would be better to use as an exemplary way to perform server-side testing.

 

Dennis: Q: is the Eclipse releng test framework appropriate for server-side test framework?

Marcin: yes

 

Open Issues

Glenn: Having some issues using the SVN client with Eclipse 3.3M5.

Joel: Suggested try using HTTPS.  But you will need an Apache ID for accessing

 

Joel: Do we want to generics w/ web services?

Glenn/Jim: yes – need them for collection classes

Marcin: Would like to use generics to expose repository interfaces (ex: IRepositoryAdapter)

Glenn/Marcin: some discussion on use of generics (to be continued offline)

 

Dennis: Can a WSDL be created for Corona web service endpoints?

Joel: not yet – but soon

Joel: what is more important – WSDL or generics?

Dennis: move this debate to dev mailing list and vote