DaliMinutes060419

Dali Status/Planning meeting - 2006-04-19 | 15:00-16:30UTC

Attendees: Neil Hauge, Brian Vosburgh, Markus Kuppe, Karen Moore, Max Andersen, Tran Le, Christian Ernst, Shaun Smith

M2 Review and general project status

Completed functionality

• Entity generation from Table – phase 2 (1-M, M-1, M-M, Java code conventions)
• Multiple JoinColumns support for relationship mappings
• Embedded, Context sensitive help - Dali User Guide
• Automated Build is pretty much there.
• Now building against WTP 1.5M6 (jump to 1.5 stream has been made)

Work in progress

• persistence.xml support
  • Project creation wizard
• Refactoring
  • UI Binding
  • Model build sequence
  • Tests

Feature Priority Results

Suggestions from the community: Work toward the spec examples.

High

• persistence.xml support
• Support for IdClass, EmbeddedID
• Usability
  • Re-login to the database, login as required
  • Persistence perspective rearranged
  • Complete sequence support (usability)
  • Quick fixes for base cases (eventually support anything with a choice of values
• Priority list to prevent errors for features we don’t yet support
  • Could convert applicable errors to warnings if we know they could be applied incorrectly
  • Schema/Catalog annotation – how can we avoid errors when this is specified – warning to say we are not validating or hook into problems with existing model support
• Priority refactoring
  • UI test conversion?
  • UI Binding
  • Tabbed Property Pane
• SecondaryTable model support (allow selecting fields from secondary tables)
• Temporal (also should be in entity gen / ddl gen)
• MapKey

Medium

• Finish translation support (ensure all applicable strings are externalized)
• Complete sequence support (usability)
• Support for Inheritance (staged approach) Single Table inheritance first
• Integration with Java refactoring - Need use cases for what to do…Log in existing ER (Shaun to start this off) 136333(JDT dependent bug)
• Lob
• Enumerated

Low

• Cascade array
• Generator Library
• Callbacks support*
• Schema/Catalog annotation

Backlog

• Extensions / model refactoring
  • Coping with more than one annotation per item
• Moving to Platform frameworks
  • Extending the java properties
  • Moving to tabbed property pane
• Support for Inheritance *(community support)
• Support for IdClass, EmbeddedID
• Callbacks support *
• Generator Library
• Text based support for query entry
• Extension investigation/refactoring/prototyping
• Support for additional EJB3 mapping annotations
  • SecondaryTable(s) *
  • AssociationOverride
  • AssociationOverrides
  • Lob
  • Temporal
  • Enumerated
  • MapKey
  • Schema/Catalog annotation support
• Annotation Value completion (Dependency on APT)
• Enhanced outline view (quick view of entity config)
• General usability enhancements
• Integration with Java refactoring - Need use cases for what to do…Log in ER
  • Quick fixes

Move to WTP

• This has been discussed with the WTP PMC and we are looking at a likely move date of early May.