JavaEEActivitiesPrioritized
Prioritized List of Activities
Java EE team, NetBeans 6.0 release
This is a living document. Below is the state as of Dec 18, 2006.
The following are the main activities we work on, in priority order:
- Migration to Retouche
- Support for AS 9.1 in NB 6 and 5.5.1
- Support for JBoss 5 in NB 6 and 5.5.1
- Maintaining quality/fixing bugs during the development cycle
- Enable Javascript editing in HTML/JSP
- Visual Web Pack integration
- Requirements from Matisse - Java Persistence in IDE cluster
- Project import - allow importing any project
- Remove closed source components
- Speed up deployment (in place deployment of EAR files to Sun AS)
- Review and stabilize APIs
- Adoption of NetBeans 5.5 (presentations, articles, e-mail aliases, ...)
- Facelets support
- Mnemonics cleanup, honor mnemonics coding conventions
- P3 features from NB 6 plan: additional web frameworks, additional servers, JSP/HTML editing enhancements
- Replace usage of ErrorManager in enterprise cluster (78883)
- Get rid of the old options infrastructure, use NbPreferences
- Options redesign, get rid of advanced options
The following activities are an integral part the development cycle, so they are not even mentioned above:
- Writing and maintaining tests
- Code cleanup as appropriate via PMD
- Writing and reviewing design and UI specs
