Dali Project/Weekly Meeting/October 01 2010

Dali Weekly Meeting

Attendees

• Shaun, Tran, Karen, Neil, Paul, Brian

Agenda

New Topics

• Ad-hoc
• Demos
  • JAXB wizards (Tran)
  • JAXB project creation (Paul)
  • Make Persistent wizard (Karen)
• Topics of interest
  • Entry points for JAXB project creation
    • Yes...all gen wizards should invoke project creation if necessary mainly for Platform info and library config
  • Should we have similar entry points for JPA wizards
    • Yes
  • JAXB library config
    • We should consider adding xjc jar to Dali dependencies so compiler is always available for the tools
  • Dali packaging for Indigo: Features, etc
• QA

Old Topics

• New JPA Project wizard
  • In worst case scenario, we just wouldn't have the "Add to EAR option"
• Usability Priorities
  • Validation - still the king
  • Quick Fixes
  • Refactoring
  • Ease of Use enhancements
• Should we remove persistence.xml UI support for descriptor customizer property?
  • Yes, and warn when used. Karen will enter a bug for this. Need to make sure these EL validation are configurable.
• Resource Locator (flexible JPA artifact config): discussion, questions, comments, etc.
  • WAB
    • WAR case - upgrade existing WAR
    • WAB case - artifacts go in bundle meta-inf, edit manifest, etc. Just a regular plugin project.
• JAXB Platforms: Generic 2.2? and EclipseLink MOXy 2.x
  • Generic is good, question is what to do with version
    • Version 2.2 is OK for now.
  • Perhaps Generic versions should be based only on the facet
• Demo: Dali refactoring support - Delete refactor
• JAXB Wizard
  • Front end to new compiler options, controls for prominent features

Action Items

• Shaun will continue to investigate WAB, bundle root changes, etc.
• OSGi JPA spec support - need to investigate this to see what things we may need to support for OSGi, slam it into the launcher classpath, might need to support different versions
• Allow for sync options for the persistence.xml at the project level