DaliMeetingMinutes20080714

Dali Post 2.0 Planning Meeting

July 14th, 2008

Attendees: Neil Hauge, Brian Vosburgh, Karen Butzke, Paul Fullbright, Tran Le, Shaun Smith

Post 2.0 Priorities/High level Release Planning (tentative)

• 2.1 (December 2008)
  • EclipseLink support (what version, 1.0.1, 1.1?, would be nice to target 1.1 (Dec12)
    • Looks like we will only be able to cover 1.0 features
  • Case sensitivity
  • Class file support
  • Usability features
• 2.2 (June 09)
  • Public API? (depends on whether the API needs to change, solicit adopter feedback)
  • Ships on WTP 3.1
• 3.0 (December 09) (very tentative)
  • JPA 2.0

Review feature backlog, deferred items from 2.0

• Dali feature backlog post 2.0 (Reviewed and updated)

EclipseLink Support: Use cases/functional issues

• DaliEclipseLinkPlatform (Reviewed and Updated)
• Do we want to highlight EclipseLink specific features in the UI in the EclipseLink UI?
  • Some sort of icon or symbol that identifies EclipseLink content
• Var 1:1 has lowest priority
• Need to be able to support spec orm.xml in EclispeLink platform
  • This means we would need to be able to load a given UI for a given XML Mapping File schema; Generic or EclipseLink Mapping File UI.
• Support every mapping type in Embedded

Milestone Planning

• Option 1 (release in Dec ‘08)
  • Pros: Earlier release, more time for 2.2
  • Cons: Less support for EclipseLink features
  • M1 – Aug 22nd
  • M2 – Oct 3rd
  • M3 – Nov 7th (Feature Freeze)
  • RC1 - Dec 5th
  • RC2 – Dec 12th
  • Release – Dec 19th
• Options 2 (release in Jan ’09)
  • Pros: More features
  • Cons: Later release, less time for 2.2
  • M1 – Aug 22nd
  • M2 – Oct 3rd
  • M3 – Nov 21th (Feature Freeze)
  • RC1 - Jan 9th
  • RC2 – Jan 16th
  • Release – Jan 23th

Resource Planning

• M1
  • Paul
    • Load resource based on content type with any name
      • Differently named orm.xml files
    • Differentiate content type on schemas location
  • Karen
    • EclipseLink Caching annotation support (potentially XML)
  • Tran
    • Remaining persistence.xml features
    • Adding driver library on new project creation (need bug for this) (tentetavie)
    • Build work
    • Bug fixes for 2.0.1
  • Brian
    • Case sensitive DB support
  • Neil
    • Developer documentation
• M2
  • Resource model for EclipseLink Mapping File
  • Binary Class support
  • Converters (2-3 weeks)
  • EclipseLink Attribute Mappings (1-2 weeks)
    • Transformation
• M3
  • EclipseLink Attribute Mappings (1-2 weeks)
    • BasicMap
    • BasicCollection
  • EclispeLink Attribute Options: Private Owned, JoinFetch, Mutable (1 week)
  • Advanced EclipseLink Options (1-2 weeks)
    • Customizer
    • Copying/Instantiation
    • Read Only
  • EclipseLink Locking (1 week)