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Release 2 Planning Documents
Target
- Version 1.0
- With needed quality
- With needed features (to have “full” development environment)
- With needed documentation
Content Proposal
Fixes and enhancements to R1
- Finalize the APIs
- Declare internal code
- Declare Public/Supported APIs
- Enhance documentation
- User Documentation
- Developer Documentation
- API Documentation
- Project based preferences
- Support for non UEI SDKs (user provides the information for any platform that is not already defined)
- Enhance build mechanism to manage resources
- Bug fixes
Create Generic SDK Interface (Define a generic SDK so that users can configure against something that has not been added by a vendor) Prioritize SDK Matches for automated solution
Execution (Launch) Update
- There needs to be a run option for non-MidP projects
- There is a dirty bit on deploy projects to say they are out-of-date but it is not being used
- There needs to be a way to specify VM and Program arguments to the launch
Visual Designers
- LCDUI
- eSWT
Device Fragmentation Solution
Support Multiple SDKs in a single project (This is not part of the device fragmentation, but would be necessary to build a project with fragments)
Obfuscation
- Enable external obfuscator plug-ins
New Profiles and configurations
- CDC
- Foundation Profile
- Personal Profile (no AWT visual editor)
- Personal Basis Profile
- MIDP 2.1 support
- MIDP 3.0 support (not included, but may come to the picture)
Mobile JUnit
Localization (low)
- Manage resources
- Visual designer support
Profiling
Migration from other IDEs
Provide a way to import a combination of a jar and jad and create a new project from the result Provide a way to import a midlet into an existing project
Features picked from rel. 0.7 list:
- F1 help
- Tool tip
- Coding tips
- What is this?
Create Web Services stubs
Convert Audio
Provide a migration path from 0.7 to 1.0
mtj.project has static information. It should have references to device information instead of local copies.