PlatformPoolOfRcpTopics
Platform topics
Planned for 6.9
Status tracking wiki page at
lists progress and more links to wiki pages with feature details.
- interoperability with OSGi (OSGiAndNetBeans)
- together with Ant and Maven tooling
- API Support & Maven (MavenPlan69)
- REST WS and JPA/CRUD parts of Interoperability with certain Enterprise technologies (ApisupportEnterprise69)
- Embedded Browser, JWebPane (JWebPane prototype embedding)
- for HTML preview in RCP app (many reports are generated as HTML and the preview to the user needs to be possible somehow)
- HTML page as a dialog box
- embedding pages of an existing enterprise webapp into enterprise RCP client
- API docs improvements (how RCP docs could be better?)
- create docs about layer files and individual entries and their relationship to APIs (links to Javadoc and vice versa) (gj: will be added to new NetBeans Platform Refcard)
- add links to other resources (FAQs, tutorials,..) into Javadoc footer (gj: makes sense)
- link from Javadoc pages to the related FAQ topics/categories (gj: will do)
- move Geertjan's blogs to a permanent space under our control (wiki.netbeans.org) and link to them from Javadoc and other RCP docs (gj: http://geertjan.org is being set up)
- better into into Module Suite vs. Module Project, many new RCP users don't see a difference (gj: will be added to new NetBeans Platform Refcard)
- API Support: fix layer view (FixedLayerView69)
- most edit operations currently unsafe
- reflect registration annotations
- API Support: better branding support (ImprovedBrandingSupport69)
- make it work also for Maven RCP projects
- GUI to brand layers (including un-hiding of hidden entries), bundles, and icons
- visual customizer of main menu and toolbar
- UI for correct display of both XML-based and annotation-based layers
- more options to customize application behavior (what specifically?)
- assistance for creating localizations (also with the option of including ML version of Platform), tool for L10N readiness check and finding unused bundle keys
- mkleint: the primary problem for people is finding out where the icons/bundles/layers are. There is no connection between what people see in the ui and where the respective underlying to-be-branded content is..
Postponed
Enterprise RCP
- improve JNLP support (JavawebstartForRCPEval)
- deprecate non-jnlp.platform.codebase builds; bundle .jnlp descriptors with modules
- custom servlet to match NB module system semantics?
- use Pack200
- user roles and automatic reconfiguration of RCP app based on user authentication - User Roles
- Swing Validation library (http://kenai.com/projects/simplevalidation/)
- About Box integration API (https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91105)
- Geertjan frequently hears from our RCP users that they want a pluggable About box
- is this an enterprise RCP feature or not?
- Graph support as a contribution from VisualVM? (there is a jfluid chart library as part of the IDE)
- JavaFX components in RCP app?
General Enhancements
- Headless builds
- Easier bootstrapping via AutoUpdateTasks
- Issue 84852: Use Pack200 for compression of NBMs to lower bandwidth requirements
- visual library enhancements (VisLibEnhancements)
- layouting algorithms
- Explorer view as an API for data model to be visualized
- ...?
- output window enhancements (OutputWindowIssuesAndReqs)
- customization via Options
- shortcuts
- tab management
- Window System
- visual customizers for window system layout
- allow moving toolbars to the left/right border of the main window (esp. important for RCP apps targeting wide-screen displays)
- perspectives(?)
- bulk operations on window modes (slide/drag/close the whole tabbed container) etc.
- show full file path when ctrl+tabbing between editor windows 178093
- breadcrumbs-like path to file in active editor window 178091
- Task List enhancements for C/C++ pack 178056
- fixes for 3rd party look and feels (JTabbedPane , ..?)
- native file listeners, perhaps using NIO.2
- skins for RCP apps (using Nimbus Java L&F)
- explorer enhancements (ExplorerEnhancements)
- API Support: more wizards
- Explorer/Nodes, ...?
- SPI for adding wizards from other modules
- API Support: allow debugging of RCP app down into Platform modules (need to allow easy download of sources and setting the sources for debugging)
- API Support: add module deps dialog improvements (AddModuleDepsImprovements69)
- improve the dialog UI and module+API descriptions
- automatically add all libraries on what a being added library depends on, e.g. Explorer API depends on Nodes API and so on
- API Support: better JavaHelp support
- action to preview without build
- validation of syntax, links
- ToC/index editor
Cleanup / Maintenance
- deprecation of certain APIs (not removing anything in 6.9, but deprecating and removing in 7.0 or like)
- TTV
- Cookies: replace all Cookies related stuff by LookUps (Data Object API)
- ...?
- API Support: fix refactorings (e.g. package rename) - some of them work, so we could just restrict the user in UI so that she does not run into cases which don't work
- API Support: compile-on-save support? - would be useful for resolving annotation processing into layer for layer display correctness
- API Support: module universe scanning performance issue
- move useful test utilities (MockLookup etc.) to independent modules in harness
- revisit component creation off EDT ([[1]|#168779])
LINKS
For reference: APISupportInNetBeansDevelopment
