EclipseLink/Development/DevMeetings

The EclipseLink committers have a regular meeting (currently weekly) to discuss ongoing development issues and projects. All interested parties are welcome to attend. If you have any additional items you wished discussed please add them at the bottom of the agenda including a brief description and any relevant links. Alternatively development issues can be discussed on the EclipseLink Dev mailing list.

* When adding agenda items please send an email to the eclipselink-dev@eclipse.org list notifying attendees. This will ensure attendees are aware of agenda items prior to the meeting.

== Agenda Jan 30, 2008 ==

2PM EST, Wednesday January 30th, 2008

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Status updates

• IP Review (EclipseLink/IPLog)
  • EclipseLink code being reviewed
  • EclipseLink/Dependencies - All approved. Still need PMC approval for 3rd party dependencies - Doug
  • Main TopLink Contribution awaiting final approval
    • Review on going.
    • IdentityMapHashMap removed to progress IP Review
  • Workbench CQ Approved
  • UserGuide CQ Approved
• Dual Licensing with BSD
  • Awaiting BSD availability. Working with Eclipse Foundation legal
  • Will update all source in SVN and CQ with dual license header when available
• OSGi Proof of Concept
  • Wiki page added with POC status, demos, and usage instructions.
  • Branch Created in SVN for exploration of EclipseLink as OSGi bundles.
  • POC running simple JPA and JAXB 2.0 apps in pure OSGi environment--no Equinox extensions used.

1.0M4

• Milestone release Date - Feb 6th
• Automated build
  • Continuous build updated to only build when needed. Currently using 'svn log' have concerns about scalability of this command.
  • Tests added to the continuous build
    • So far core SRG added,
• Automated Testing - Tom
  • JPA FullRegressionTestSuite and core SRG pass on EclipseLink build server
  • JPA, MOXy, SDO and DBWS SRGs are needed
  • Core SRG runs automatically with build
  • Publication of test results
    • HTML version of Core SRG results published with each build
• Foundation and JPA Status
  • DONE: Deprecation Removal - Kyle
  • Deployment XML rework - Guy
• OXM, JAXB, SDO - Blaise D
• Documentation Status - Rick S
  • Complete User's Guide available. Minor/final cleanup remaining.
  • Adding crosslinks from/to examples, FAQs, etc.
  • Working on Contributor Guidelines
  • Javadocs linked from User's Guide
  • Improved searching
• Maven - Mitesh
  • Building Mavenized bundle of EclipseLink

1.0 Exit Criteria

• 1.0 Exit Criteria now documented. Please review and provide feedback on the dev mailing list - Doug
• Need to provide projected release date. Planning for first half of 2008. Waiting for JAXB 2.1 compliance estimates - Doug

General Issues

• nightly eclipselink.jar checked into build -
  • bug created: 211760
  • UNBLOCKED: Blocked on writing into svn.
• SVN Proxy

Upcoming Issues

The following items require discussion but are not yet at the stage where a solution can be proposed.

• EclipseLink/Development/Examples: Strategy for the development and maintenance of examples
• EclipseLink/Development/OSGi: Strategy for delivery of OSGi/Equinox bundles
• EclipseLink/Development/JPA_2.0: Strategy for the concurrent development of JPA 2.0 while maintaining JPA 1.0 usage
• EclipseLink/Development/Spring: Strategy for using EclipseLink within the Spring Framework
• EclipseLink/Development/Java6: Strategy for using EclipseLink on a Java SE 6 JRE

Minutes from Past Meetings

• January 23, 2008
• January 16, 2008
• January 9, 2008
• December 19, 26, 2007, January 2, 2008 - cancelled
• December 12, 2007
• December 5, 2007
• November 29, 2007
• November 21, 2007
• November 14, 2007
• November 7, 2007
• October 31, 2007
• Previous minutes