© 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 | Esslingen, De | Oct , 2006 Tim Wagner (BEA), WTP PMC Lead David Williams (IBM), WST Project Lead WTP Incubation and Roadmap
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 2 Before I get started… EclipseCon Call for Participation Submit or comment on proposals at WTP is looking for long and short talks, tutorials, demos, etc.
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 3 Outline WTP Organization JSF Overview and Demo ATF Overview and Demo Dali was presented earlier today; see Shaun Smith for info, demos, Q&A, etc.
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 4 WTP Organization WTP provides tools for Java Web application development Tools for application developers Platform for tool developers/adopting companies Graduated subprojects have shipping versions in Callisto Web Standard Tools – IETF, W3C, OASIS, WS-I, ANSI, etc J2EE Standard Tools – JCP Incubating subprojects allow new technologies to grow…
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 5 WTP Organization Currently three incubating subprojects: JSF: Java Server Faces tools Dali: JPA / EJB 3.0 persistence tools ATF: AJAX-related tools and APIs What can you do? Try them out – download, watch videos, read docs, etc. Participate! Join the community via newsgroup; become a committer on code, docs, or website. Find, report, and/or fix bugs. Develop products and services based on these tools.
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 6 Project Lifecycle Proposed Created Incubating/milestones ATF (Feedback wanted!) Released (tech preview / pre-1.0) JSF, Dali Graduated Released (1.0 or higher)
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 7 Components can incubate, too… Sybase visual editor contribution inside JST is an example
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 8 Outline WTP Organization JSF Overview and Demo ATF Overview and Demo
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 9 JSF Tools Project Overview Project Vision Provide comprehensive support to the Eclipse Web Tools Project to simplify development and deployment of JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications. Roadmap June 2006: 0.5 Release, based on WTP 1.5. September 2006: 0.5 Release update, based on WTP1.5.1 Ongoing: Coordinated Europa milestones (with WTP) June 2007: Graduation and release as part of WTP 2.0 Key Contributions Oracle – Project Leadership (Raghunathan Srinivasan) Sybase – Faces Configuration Editor IBM – EMF Model of the Faces Configuration resource
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v JSF Tools Features JSF-JSP Source Editor Features Enhance productivity for JSF users Simplify JSF tooling extensions for 3 rd party adopters Examples of user functionality: Component palette Content assist for values of tag attributes Quick Assist and Quick Fix Hyperlink JSF page validation Refactoring support JSF Search Page
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v JSF Tools Features Visual editor for page flow and other configuration resources Multi-page Editor Overview page Summary of elements in the configuration file Navigation page Graphical diagram editor for navigational rules Managed bean page Form-based editor, wizards Component Page Source Page EMF model of the application configuration resource files Programmatic access
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v JSF Tools Features JSF library registry Enables definition of a named collection of JARs, including tag libraries, JSF reference implementations and utility jars Add, remove libraries associated with a project Automate build classpath settings and deployment
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v More Information The JSF Tools Project: JavaServer Faces (JSR-127 & JSR 252): JSF Central (Community Website): DEMO
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Outline WTP Organization JSF Overview and Demo ATF Overview and Demo
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v ATF provides Tools to develop any DHTML/AJAX application Tooling to facilitate use of various AJAX toolkits Tight integration with existing user interface and development paradigms Based on / built on WTP Targets AJAX application developers (users), tool vendors (adopters), and AJAX library authors who want to provide tooling for their runtimes. Goal is to improve productivity for AJAX developers and to enable 3 rd parties to provide high-quality value added features. AJAX Project Overview
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Mozilla XULRunner & Javaconnect AJAX Toolkit Framework are Eclipse Plugins ECLIPSE Eclipse WebTools AJAX Toolkit Framework ATF builds on WTP deployment and editing infrastructure ATF uses an embedded Mozilla browser for debugging and DOM inspection
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Mozilla XULRunner & JavaConnect Eclipse WebTools Eclipse Plugins AJAX Toolkit Framework Components JavaScript Syntax Validator Personalities DOM Inspector And JavaScript Console Java Script Debugger Embedded Mozilla Browser Personality Builder Rico Personality Zimbra Personality Dojo Personality Rico Zimbra Dojo Personality Common Libraries Another Personality Ajax-x
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v AJAX Toolkit Framework Components Project and Application Creation Project creation, Drag and Drop application snippets Embedded Mozilla Browser Run/Debug an Ajax application in the embedded Mozilla browser Browser Tooling DOM Source view, DOM Inspector, Browser Console, XHRequest Monitor, and CSS Tools JavaScript Editor Integrated JavaScript editor with batch and as-you-type syntax validation JavaScript Debugger Stack frame, variables and script views; breakpoints and browser control Application Deployment Deployment of an AJAX application to a server. Personality Builder Ability to create tooling for new AJAX toolkits (runtime libraries)
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Project and Application Creation Built in support for three AJAX runtimes today Dojo, Rico, and Zimbra Personality Builder simplifies adding new runtimes Eclipse Project Integration Static Web, Dynamic Web, or PHP project can be AJAX-enabled Support can be added to existing projects Application Creation Wizard Template to create initial AJAX-enabled application Drag and Drop snippets to source file
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Browser Tooling CSS View Style Rules Shows the rules and their defined properties Able to edit and add a property Open CSS file for the rule and property Highlights the DOM elements using a selected style rule or property Computed Styles Shows every style rule computed by the browser Box Model Shows the dimensions, x-y coordinates, padding, border, and margin information Diffs Shows the changes made to CSS rules and properties
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v JavaScript Editor Enhanced Editor with Validation Integrated JavaScript editor Batch and as-you-type syntax validation Syntax checker based on the Mozilla Rhino engine Validator based on JSLint Detects undesirable or ambiguous constructs considered to be bad practice JSLint errors are consider warnings. Drag and Drop snippets to Application Source File
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v URL Debugging/Running HTTP or File URL support Able to launch and debug an AJAX application using a URL Application doesn’t have to reside in eclipse All tooling supports handling files by URL Editor Debugger Browser tooling Breakpoint Management User has to manually delete breakpoints
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v More Information Download from Project website: Newsgroup: Screencasts: DEMO
© 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v1.0 | Esslingen, De | Oct , 2006 Tim Wagner (BEA), WTP PMC Lead David Williams (IBM), WST Project Lead WTP Incubation and Roadmap
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Release Roadmap and 2.0 Planning 1.5.x Line: Focused on stability and adopter-readiness of 1.5 Callisto fall update (released 9/29/06) included WTP Bug fix release WTP planned for late October Callisto winter update (early Feb?) will include WTP Subsequent 1.5.x maintenance releases on an as-needed basis (none planned currently)
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Release Roadmap and 2.0 Planning 2.0: Synchronized with Europa release train Coordinated milestones and release candidates “Preview ready” for EclipseCon ’07 Maintenance packs will include (at least) Europa’s updates Same release methodology and vehicles as with Callisto Joint update site, all-in-one bundles, WTP download site, etc.
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v WTP 2.0 Plan Enable EE 5 Focus on graduating technologies currently in incubation: JSF: graduation with WTP 2.0 Dali: graduation with WTP 2.0 Visual editor: graduated component of JST/JSF with WTP 2.0 ATF tech preview late ’06; graduation with WTP 2.0 Alignment with platform and other projects in overlap areas RDB DTP migration, common undo, etc. Continued improvements for adopters and user support for details or to participate in requirements analysis
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WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Embedded Mozilla Browser Integrated Mozilla browser Uses XULRunner to provide a seamless experience for both development and browsing activities Provides the engine for AJAX Tooling Debugger JavaScript Engine Browser Views Mozilla perspective Includes DOM display features
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Browser Tooling DOM Inspector Displays the DOM tree as rendered by the browser Dynamically updated to reflect changes within the browser Attributes of a node can be edited, added to, and removed A “breadcrumb trail” to the currently selected node is maintained DOM Source View Displays the HTML source of the selected DOM node Source can edited, validated, and updated back to the browser Realtime synchronization state indicator
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Browser Tooling Browser Console Shows all browser (i.e JavaScript, CSS) errors, warnings, and logging messages Doubling clicking on an error opens to the relevant line of code XMLHTTPRequest Monitor Observe XMLHTTPRequest request/response information Formatting of the response body based on content-types
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v JavaScript Debugger Breakpoints Ability to set breakpoints in JavaScript Any file type with JavaScript content (html, js, php). Breakpoints can be enabled/disabled Debug Views for JavaScript Call Stack Variables Breakpoints Scripts View Debug Preference options Suspend at start Suspend on JavaScript Exceptions or Errors Suspend on JavaScript debugger keywords
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Application Deployment Multiple Server Types HTTP Web Server J2EE Servers HTTP Web Server Support defining a HTTP Web Server in eclipse Ability to specify publish directory Defining the HTTP server port Support for Home Page URLs (~username) J2EE Servers Multiple J2EE Servers (Tomcat, JBOSS. etc.) Testing done using Tomcat Publishing Options Automatically publish to server Never publish to server
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Personality Builder Wizard that simplifies facet creation based on Artifact data (AJAX toolkit libraries) Build requirements data New application templates Code patterns Deployment data Wizard outputs a facet configuration Provides necessary features targeted for the new runtime Enables customization and addition of functionality by 3 rd parties
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Recent ATF Enhancements HTTP Web Server Support Ability to configure, deploy, and run/debug on a Web Server HTTP or File URL support Able to launch and debug an AJAX application using a URL Application doesn’t have to reside in eclipse Simplified AJAX Project Creation Ability to add AJAX support to existing project JavaScript Debugger Enhancements Expression support New preference items
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Browser Tooling Enhancements in Latest Release New CSS View Viewing of style properties Highlighting elements in browser for selected style. Editing of CSS style properties. DOM Source View Improve DOM Source View and Browser interaction. DOM Inspector Linked breadcrumb trail XHR Monitor Formatting to format XHR response body
WTP Incubation and Roadmap | © 2006 by BEA, IBM, and Oracle; made available under the EPL v Possible Future Enhancements to ATF Further improvements to provide Robust JavaScript Tooling Real JavaScript Model, Enhanced code completion, Enhanced Outline view, Code formatting, etc Debugger enhancements Improve Install by providing better support for run time dependencies Personality Builder improvements through multiple runtime version support Multiple Browser Support (IE, Opera, etc) Integration with WTP