Eclipse Equinox 3.9.0
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Description:
See the Equinox Kepler release plan document.
API Certification:
The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".
Architectural Issues:
- The Equinox Core OSGI Framework now requires Java 5
- Many Equinox components now require Java 5
- No longer use jsr14 compiler option to down compile Java 5 source to Java 4. This was the main reason many Equinox components moved up to Java 5
- Parts of Equinox depend on Jetty 8 which required Java 6
Non-Code Aspects:
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No new OSGi specification is available for the Kepler release
- This release of Equinox is largely being treated as a maintenance release
- Several new features are included in p2 for shared install scenarios and remediation
- The Kepler release will contain updated User and ISV documentation
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Community is active
- Mailing lists and newsgroups have steady activity
- Steady flow of bugzilla reports
- Presentations and BOFs at EclipseCons
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Internationalization
- Latin1 and Latin2 locales supported in all operating environments
- DBCS locales supported on all platforms
- GB18030-1 Chinese codepage standard is supported on Windows, Linux GTK and Mac
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Localization
- Tested for localization
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Accessibility
- Tested for accessibility, but Equinox has minimal UI.
Usability Details:
- Equinox has very little UI. The most noteable UI is in p2.
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p2 UI has had several small enhancements to help improve the user experience.
- Remediation has been added to assist users when an install operation goes wrong and guides the users to a possible solution.
End of Life:
- When evolving API the Equinox Project will, whenever possible, deprecate the affected API methods and continue to keep them operational
- Exceptions to this rule are in the 3.9 migration guide
- No API deprecations to note for this release
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Several planned deprecations coming for the next release (Luna)
- Equinox state/resolver API
- Plugin converter service
- Support for Eclipse 2.0 style plugins at runtime
Standards:
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OSGi
- Equinox Core Framework Specification, Release 5
- Service Compendium Specification, Release 4.3 and Release 4.2
- Continued development of the next OSGi specification
- Many Equinox components provide reference implementations to the OSGi Alliance
Communities:
- The Equinox project is developed using an open, transparent, and inclusive process
- Teams rely on Bugzilla, mailing list and newsgroups for input
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Between June, 2012 and May 2012 (RC2)
- More than 500 reports were created
- Over 330 were resolved
- 40 were backported to Juno
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53 were resolved without a code change
- invalid, duplicate, worksforme, etc
- Equinox team members are active in Bugzilla, newsgroup, mailing lists and IRC
- Using the equinox-dev IRC channel
- The Equinox team participates in code camps, conference presentations, and tutorials, including
- EclipseCon, OSGi DevCon, JavaOne etc.
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The Equinox team interacts with other open source projects, standards bodies, and other projects on eclipse.org, including
- OSGi Alliance, Apache Aries, Apache Felix
Subprojects included with this release:
This release is part of Kepler.