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Revision as of 09:00, 26 November 2009
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Platform topics
This document is a pool of topics for NetBeans Platform RCP after 6.8.
Unsorted, unprioritized, still to be processed in 6.9 planning.
Enterprise RCP
- API Support & Maven ApisupportMaven69
- improved support for Maven builds of RCP apps (important for developers who are already building their projects with Maven and need to reuse it for their RCP app; scales better than Ant for building more apps from bunch of reused projects)
- interoperability with OSGi (OSGiAndNetBeans)
- first needs investigation of feasibility, performance impact, etc...
- OSGi container bridged with module system to allow coexistence of NB modules and OSGi bundles at runtime
- dev support in API Support
- not rewriting NB Platform to OSGi, not plug-and-play Eclipse module support, only ability to interlink with libraries available as OSGi bundles and maybe also packaging a project in NetBeans into OSGi bundle
- improve JNLP support
- deprecate non-jnlp.platform.codebase builds; bundle .jnlp descriptors with modules
- custom servlet to match NB module system semantics?
- use Pack200
- interoperability with certain Enterprise technologies
- have reference enterprise platform applications that would provide canonical solutions to the most common problems: login window/access rights, embedding spring, using osgi bundles,....
- have enabling API Support wizards for Enterprise technologies (Spring, JPA/Hibernate,..) - helping the developers by adding the particular boilerplate code to their RCP app
- docs and sample apps for Enterprise RCP apps on top of the Platform
- simple JPA-based CRUD app
- app connecting to RESTful webservices
- app as a Java EE client
- user roles and automatic reconfiguration of RCP app based on user authentication (e.g. role based module enabling/disabling?) - repeatedly requested by enterprise RCP app developers
- embedded browser, JWebPane
- 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
- Swing Validation library (http://kenai.com/projects/simplevalidation/)
- Graph support as a contribution from VisualVM?
- JavaFX components in RCP app?
General Enhancements
- 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)
- add links to other resources (FAQs, tutorials,..) into Javadoc footer
- link from Javadoc pages to the related FAQ topics/categories
- move Geertjan's blogs to a permanent space under our control (wiki.netbeans.org) and link to them from Javadoc and other RCP docs
- better into into Module Suite vs. Module Project, many new RCP users don't see a difference
- 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..
- visual library (layouting algorithms, Explorer view, ..?)
- 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.
- fixes for 3rd party look and feels (JTabbedPane , ..?)
- native file listeners, perhaps using NIO.2
- skins for RCP apps (using Nimbus Java L&F)
- About Box integration API https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91105
- 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?
- API Support: fix layer view (FixedLayerView69)
- most edit operations currently unsafe
- reflect registration annotations
- 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])
