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Buckminster Project/Buckminster Roadmap
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Through 2007, the Project will aim for a significant elaboration or extension of functionality at roughly three-month intervals. Our roadmap for the next 9-12 months appears below. The roadmap is currently organized thematically, and the project team is currently considering re-factoring the roadmap so that each theme can be advanced in parallel.
Contents
Release 0.2.0
Theme: Usability
- Graphical editors for the RMAP and CSPEC
- Use EMF for all models (awaits EMF support for generics)
- ”Form” style editors with Eclipse look and feel
- Intuitive and with extensive help
- Graphical representation of a Component Model
- Can view a complete model spanning many components
- Should be zoomable
- Graphical representation of the resolve process
- Provides feedback to the user during the resolve process
- The graph of chosen paths can be persisted
- Standards
- Support for Java Content Repository (JSR170)
Release 0.3.0
Theme: Support for wider range of component models
- WAR and EAR recognition
- project models produced by CSPEC actions
- Reuse models supported by Eclipse Web Tools Project
- Target common servers. Tomcat, Jboss, JOnAS
- Commercial servers, such as Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle
- Support for Ivy projects
- Support for Java Modules (JSR277), subject to JSR finalization
Release 0.4.0
Theme: Support for additional languages
- PHP/Python/Perl, C
- Repository provider for CPAN
- Support LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) component stack
- Additional component models
- Recognize CDT generated projects
- Perhaps recognize automake/auotconf/configure projects