Equinox Aspects Plan

This page lays out milestone plans for the development of the Equinox Aspects incubator project.

Future Milestone Plans

M5 - January 30, 2009 (stable build)

• General:
  • Alignment with the releng headless build bug 256347 (Heiko)
  • Prepare for graduation

• Weaving:
  • investigate weaving service implementation for ClassFileTransformer bug 248047
  • exception thrown at startup bug 261089 (Martin)

• Website:
  • add screencast for hello world example (Heiko, contribution by Gerd Wütherich)
  • add screencast or step-by-step example for RCP apps using Equinox Aspects

Previous Milestone Plans

M1 - August 8, 2008 (stable build)

• General:
  • rename bundles and start with new version numbering bug 238730 (Martin)

• Weaving:
  • simplify locating aop.xml definitions bug 237145 (Martin)
  • fix the handling for dynamically uninstalling aspect bundles bug 229865 (Martin)
  • weaving does not work for some bundles bug 237214 (Martin)
  • improve handling of service dynamics: Coming and going of weaving service must influence aspectized bundles bug 226461 (Heiko)
  • exception thrown when aspects are registered bug 241638 (Martin)

• Caching:
  • add handling of bundle and aspect versions to standard caching service bug 216398 (Martin)

• Website:
  • add bundle overview page (Martin)
  • add dev builds to download page (Martin)
  • [>1.0 M1] add screencast for hello world example (Heiko, contribution by Gerd Wütherich)

M2 - September 19, 2008 (stable build)

• General:
  • [>1.0 M2] Alignment with the releng headless build (Heiko)
  • [>1.0 M2] Harmonize logging and tracing over the different bundles (Heiko)
  • [>1.0 M2] clean up old bugzilla entries

• Weaving:
  • supplementer mechanism broken without clean configuration bug 243681 (Martin)
  • [>1.0 M2] avoid weaver initialization until really needed bug 243685 (Martin)
  • aspect bundle update is broken bug 244410 (Martin)
  • [>1.0 M2] investige other weaving implementations using ClassFileTransformer API

• Website:
  • [>1.0 M2] add screencast for hello world example (Heiko, contribution by Gerd Wütherich)
  • [>1.0 M2] add screencast or step-by-step example for RCP apps using Equinox Aspects

M3 - October 31, 2008 (stable build)

• General:
  • Alignment with the releng headless build (Heiko)
  • Harmonize logging and tracing over the different bundles (Heiko)
  • [>1.0 M3] clean up old bugzilla entries
  • replace the manifest rewriting with the new hook bug 229863 (Martin)
  • change aspect activation from installed to resolved state bug 247718 (Martin)
  • deadlock when using equinox aspects and spring dm extender bug 249613 (Martin)
  • Supplementing via Require-Bundle may conflict with "uses" directive bug 248826 (Martin)

• Weaving:
  • avoid weaver initialization until really needed bug 243685 (Martin)
  • replace require-bundle with import-package for weaving.aspectj bundle bug 248046 (Martin)
  • [>1.0 M3] investigate weaving service implementation for ClassFileTransformer bug 248047

• Website:
  • add screencast for hello world example (Heiko, contribution by Gerd Wütherich)
  • [>1.0 M3] add screencast or step-by-step example for RCP apps using Equinox Aspects

M4 - December 12, 2008 (stable build)

• General:
  • [>1.0 M4] Alignment with the releng headless build bug 256347 (Heiko)
  • Harmonize logging and tracing over the different bundles (Heiko)
  • clean up old bugzilla entries
  • p2.inf for equinox aspects bug 255122 (Martin, contributed by Andrew Eisenberg)
  • Failed deploy of war bundle using Spring-DM web extender bug 255156 (Martin)
  • An endless recursion when weaving against M3 bug 253656 (Martin)

• Weaving:
  • deadlock when using equinox aspects and spring dm extender bug 249613 (Martin)
  • [>1.0 M4] investigate weaving service implementation for ClassFileTransformer bug 248047

• Website:
  • [>1.0 M4] add screencast for hello world example (Heiko, contribution by Gerd Wütherich)
  • [>1.0 M4] add screencast or step-by-step example for RCP apps using Equinox Aspects

Legend

Needs some investigation

Patch in progress

Bug fixed / Feature added

[>1.0 M1] Moved or continued beyond that build