CorePlan72
Core Plan 7.2 (Extended Platform team's plan)
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Platform
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Limited export of passwords: #171900
- More annotations for common APIs: [MoreDeclarativeRegistrationUsingAnnotations]
- Enable quick search in Outline View #110686
- *TBD* Allow reload Network Proxy Setting in running IDE session - #148534
Core
- improved Windows 7 support - #178273 - producing 64-bit launcher
- performance - #196075 - separation of cachedir and the rest of userdir into to paths by default (a followup to --cachedir option introduced in 7.1)
- Cleanup of Options categories (Misc, Java) - #200878
Autoupdate
- Improve handling licenses in Plugin Manager #200765
- Enhance Autoupdate API to allow listening on build cache/search/install
- Ability for a feature to depend on another feature? (#205998)
- Allow to install a OSGi bundle manually via Plugin Manager
Debugger
- Debugger does not work while scanning #202573
- Add code-completion to breakpoint dialogs
- Enable/disable breakpoints from other breakpoints
- "List view" in Variables and Watches. In the form of <variable> = <value>
- Nice to have: show bytecode when debugging without sources. A possibility of adding support for decompilers can be considered. (~3-4w)
Visual Debugger
- Zoom of the application snapshot
- Allow to define a shortcut that will start/stop logging of events. (1d)
- Incorporate suggestions and corrections to visual debugger functionality by users
- Nice to have: Visual debugging functionality on the real application (not on a snapshot).
Search
- Sandbox area for testing regular expressions
- Find and Replace in Projects improvements
- Instant search while typing search parameters (live search preview)
Versionings and Bugtrackings
- SVN 1.7 supported by new version of SvnKit
- Efficient and scalable bugtracking API
- Redesign search history - Spec
- VCS history in editor tab - #201708
- Git API public
- Mercurial Queues - use cases
- Enhance annotation/blame bar in editor - #202314
- Allow diffing against any revision - #189273
Unit Tests
- TestNG support next to the existing JUnit support
Maven
Broad areas of possible improvements:
- better POM fidelity: generated source root detection, JUnit config for CoS, etc.
- more GUI controls for changes to POM
- enhanced editor hints, templates, completion, etc. for pom.xml
- workflow tools: releasing components, preparing custom patches, upload JAR
- converting non-Maven sources (e.g. NB Ant-based projects)
- more complete NBM development support
- multimodule dependency visualization (graphic and/or DSM)
- in-VM agent for (3.0.3+) builds to permit better output display, possibly supporting multithreaded builds with multiple output tabs
- (re-)consider arranging templates in New Project by technology rather than segregating Maven
- "blacklist" Java usages of too-new JDK features (acc. to Animal Sniffer plugin), undeclared (indirect) dependencies, unexported packages (NBM/OSGi)
Window System
- Show close buttons in editor list drop-down menu
- Show non-document windows when switching between windows using CTRL+TAB keyboard shortcut.
- Rewrite UI for multi-view tabs - allow tabs to be placed at the bottom, add drop down menu if there are too many tabs to fit the screen, allow custom UI for the multiview tabs.
- Rewrite main menu bar - show some visual feedback that menu is loading instead of populating it with fake actions and replacing them with real ones when finally loaded.
- Toolbar overflow - if toolbar is too wide to fit to the screen, show additional buttons in some sort of drop down menu.
- Editor splitting - same functionality as JDeveloper has
- Visual editor for window layout
- More eye candy when dragging windows - better visual feedback when dragging a group of windows. Better reordering or editor windows (see Firefox tabs reordering)
