Dali 1.0 planning

Links

• Feature backlog
• Dali Deployment Scenarios
• WTP Migration Status
• Dali 1.0 Meeting Minutes
• Dali 1.0M6 Plan
• Dali 1.0M7 Plan
• Dali 1.0 RC Bug Queries

Major Themes

• Ecosystem Integration
  • Platform/JDT/WTP/DTP
• Extensibility
  • Build in from the bottom and up.
• Round out JPA support
  • UI support for XML Descriptor (orm.xml)
  • Cover more of the spec
• Usability - (some items depend on new feature development in the JDT)
  • Better validation, quick fixes, code assist

Draft Milestone Plan (Aligns with WTP 2.0 Milestones)

M1 - August 24th 2006

• No new functionality planned

M2 - October 6th 2006

• DTP Migration
• New orm.xml prototype
• Using Facet Framework (may need to move to M3 based on model rework)

M3 - November 17th 2006

• Integrated with WTP Build

M4 - December 22nd 2006 (Date change to align with new WTP 2.0 M4 date)

• Fully integrated with WTP Build
• Demonstrate simultaneous Java annotation support with orm.xml support

M5 - Feb 23 2007

• Defaults processing
• Basic Validation framework
• Enhanced Project Creation/Configuration
• DB access via DTP - Table/Column suggestions in the UI
• Entity Generation

M6 - April 6 2007

• persistence.xml validation
• Support for more annotations and orm.xml elements
• Support for features that allow for adoption (public fields, fully qualified annotations)
• Additional annotation and orm.xml validation
• Support for Inheritance, SecondaryTable, JoinColumn, and Generators

M7 - May 18 2007

• Additional Support for ORM XML
• Enhance Project Creation
• Text based query support with associated model
• Provisional API/Extensions