DSDP/TML/Agenda03Apr07

Attendees

• Christian Kurzke (TmL project lead, Motorola)
• Mauren Brenner (TmL project co-lead, Eldorado/Motorola)
• Fabio Fantato (TmL developer, Eldorado/Motorola)
• Jefferson Silva (Eldorado project manager)
• Norbert Leser (Nokia)
• Ewa Matejksa (PalmSource)

Agenda

• Welcome new participants
• History and background of TmL project
• Describe current focus areas for TML
• How TML fits into the wider Eclipse ecosystem, and how we cooperate with established projects.
• Gather interest of call participants
• Round Table

Detailed Summary

• Project background/History: Motorola is using Eclipse internally to develop code for various Linux based projects, internal tools and use of CDT.
• Project history: initial proposal June 2006, graduated to an official project in January 2007.
• Project goals: a more specialized, vertical project on top of CDT, covering issues related to mobile devices industry, which are not covered by CDT.

First priority of missing functionality is a simulation/emulation environment, like what we have with UEI ([[1][UEI project]]) in the J2ME development world.

• Motivations for the emulator framework:
  • support different types of emulators, e.g. QEmu, User-mode Linux;
  • general framework with a Linux-based reference implementation;
  • emulator framework is an abstract layer that can be used by different emulators.

• Other objectives of framework are
  • screen interaction,
  • wireless toolkit including simulation of Bluetooth,
  • SMS network back-end etc.;
  • support to development of peer-to-peer applications;
  • abstract communication features away from emulators and simulate network infrastructure.

Design goals:

• Emulator framework based on extension points (unlike UEI which is based on Command Line Interface).

Current Project Goals:

• Keep communicating with Symbian, Nokia, ARM, PalmSource.
  • Objective is to broaden scope of emulator framework
  • Invite more people to participate and define more use cases as well as review the existing ones.
  • Have a good collection of use cases by the end of Q2 2007.

Eclipse integration:

• Application packaging and interaction with the emulators.
• Two areas that need more effort but must be prioritised:

1. support for specific device chipsets, e.g. GPS, Bluetooth; inject GPS events by means of an Eclipse view etc.;
2. simulation of mobile phone network infrastructure.

Integration and cooperation with other Eclipse projects.

• Commonalities between TmL proposal and CDT 4.0 regarding support to multiple toolchains and possible contribution to CDT instead of TmL.
• Follow the development of Target Manager project, evaluate TM agent as possibility for Emulator deployment agent

Next Steps and Action Items

• Keep in mind that TmL must support developers using both Linux and Windows hosts.
• Use cases will be posted in the wiki, but will be moved to CVS as soon as possible in order to keep a change history.
• The first priority is to have some code contributed, with a consistent API.
• Plans: have working code at the end of 2007 to catch Eclipse train in the summer 2008.

Next Meetings

• TmL open meeting will happen every two weeks; for the time being it will be kept at the same time and day of week, but may be offset by a week due to a conflict with the TM committers call.
• Next open meeting: Tuesday 17 April, 8:00 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time).