Web tools platform release 2.0

Please send comments about this plan to the wtp-pmc eclipse. The first part of the plan deals with the important matters of release deliverables, release milestones, target operating environments, and release-to-release compatibility.

These are all things that need to be clear for any release, even if no features were to change. The remainder of the plan consists of plan items for the subprojects under the Eclipse Web Tools top-level project.

Each plan item will have its own entry in the Eclipse bugzilla database, with a title and a concise summary usually a single paragraph that explains the work item at a suitably high enough level so that everyone can readily understand what the work item is without having to understand the nitty-gritty detail.

Release milestones will occur at roughly 6 week intervals in synchronization with the Eclipse Platform milestone releases starting with M1 and will be compatible with Eclipse 3. Students can also be made to play around with the tool to create imaginative diagrams to explain a problem. Thus, the tool can greatly enhance creativity in students.

Padlet is the number one electronic stick notes tool. Notes are created on Padlet walls and the notes can contain texts, images, videos, and links. A Padlet wall can be thought of to the same thing as the physical post-it wall in the classroom.

The example above shows a typical way I have been using Padlet in my classes. I create the wall for a particular topic, students join the wall and add notes, connect the notes to other subtopics, give explanations, use photos and create links to online resources so other classmates can learn from them. I would also use Padlet as a brainstorming tool to brainstorm ideas in the classroom and from colleagues in school.

Thus, Padlet is great as a collaborative tool. Adobe Spark is one of my favorites. It is a media creation tool that can be used to create three types of media content—videos, webpages, and graphics.

The content created in Adobe Spark can be indeed eye-catching as can be seen in the examples above. In the classroom, I would use the tool to create a PBL lesson webpage for students see example 1. Students can also use the tool to create their own content to explain, say, their understanding of a topic in video format, webpage format, or graphic format.

In a maths statistics class, I would let students use the tool to create an infographic containing data from, say, a finished project. Bamboozle is a platform for creating different types of games.

The games can then be played as a whole class or by individual students. I would use Bamboozle just for what it is meant—to gamify my classroom. It is normally difficult to gamify a high school math class but with Bamboozle, this can be done easily—not many tools are out there for gamification that can work with high school mathematics.

I would create Bamboozle games like the one in the example above and play as a whole-class review activity. Prezi is a presentation tool similar to PowerPoint and Keynote. However, Prezi is different in that it makes the presentation come to life in a visually attractive way. Prezi presentations catch the attention of the audience.

In addition, Prezis are hosted online, meaning that we do not need to transfer files from one computer to another when presenting on a device different from the one in which the Prezi was made—all you should do is log into your account on the other device and your Prezis are there. I would use Prezi to summarize a topic taught see example above. Also, I would let students collaboratively create Prezis to summarize topics that have been taught. FlipGrid is a powerful social-emotional learning tool where collaborators submit ideas in the form of short videos on a topic anywhere in the world.

The videos can be viewed by other members in the grid and they can also respond to each other. This can be a great tool to brainstorm ideas in a team of instructors. In class, I use FlipGrid at the beginning of the year to get students to introduce themselves to me, to each other, and to say something nice about their mates. This gets them on the track to building better relationships.

Sometimes, in the middle of a topic, I would also ask a question and they will submit video responses and respond to each other. In mathematics, they would carefully solve a problem, show their solution in the short video and briefly explain the critical steps in the solution. Classmates would them submit responses and say whether something is wrong in the solution, approve of the solution, or propose alternative simpler solutions. No special attention will give for being compatible with previous Eclipse versions.

A partial list of the new WTP components is:. Items listed reflect new features of the Web Tools Platform, or areas where existing features will be significantly reworked. TBD Each item indicates the components likely affected by that work item many items involve coordinated changes to several components.

Numbers in parentheses link to bugzilla problem reports for that plan item. Users should expect API and tool refinements in these areas, with a likelihood for more rapid and extensive revisions than in the base WTP code, along with initial API declarations in the 2. Focused effort will be made to reduce bug backlog, improving test coverage, performance and performance testing, ISV documentation and examples, usability and UI consistency.

We should take a two-phase approach. WTP currently has only a small dependency on RDB, which might be migrated to DTP or, perhaps, will be replaced by a more a generic, loose, optional dependency. Investigate if the Apache Web server adapter should be moved into wst. If existing clients are recompiled with the new model, then compilation errors MUST NOT occur note: we assume that existing clients will not break in any way if they only use the published API - code that relies on internal interfaces MAY break.

Server providers should also be encourage to use the remote server runtime installation framework currently used by Geronimo. This page was last modified , 29 March by John Lanuti. Indigo development packages are again available, so get on it!

Many thanks to all the WTP committers who continue to improve the quality and function in WTP and the greater community at large. The fifth development milestone for WTP 3. It's also an excellent time to test the Indigo development packages and see how this year's Simultaneous Release is progressing.

The fourth development milestone for WTP 3. The adventurous can also give the Indigo M4 packages a spin, many of which feature the corresponding WTP milestone. The third development milestone for WTP 3.

The second development milestone for WTP 3. You can download WTP 3. The next scheduled maintenance release, 3. It addresses a number of bugs in the original 3. Content assist in the editors has been streamlined and performance improved in numerous areas. You'll find parts of WTP in most of the Helios packages , but you can still download WTP manually or install just the features you want by working with the Helios update site.

Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now, or try it out in a Helios milestone today! Eclipse Web Tools Platform version 3. Version 3. This second and final maintenance release includes nearly a hundred fixes. Download it now or get it as part of Eclipse Galileo SR2. See our complete New and Noteworthy for full details. It's too early to tell if we'll have six more weeks of Winter to accompany our next milestone, but this milestone has definitely come to an end.

Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now, or try it out in a Helios milestone soon! Just in time for a number of holidays, the fourth development milestone for WTP 3. Nearly a hundred fixes have been added since the 3. Download it now or get it as part of Eclipse Galileo SR1. The next scheduled maintenance release will be available in late February, For more details, the complete list, and more, visit Infoworld.

The first development milestone for WTP 3. Like clockwork, Eclipse Web Tools Platform version 3. The past year has seen over bugs fixed, collectively providing improvements to, and polishing of, end-user function, as well as offering new APIs and increased flexibility for our many adopters.

In addition to the numerous changes invisible to the eye, here are some notable changes to explore in WTP 3. You can see WTP 3. More than fixes have been added since the 3. Stay tuned for our 3. The seventh development milestone for WTP 3. The goal of WTP Education is to enable and educate WTP end-users by providing them quality resources for self-learning and to increase WTP awareness and usage by obtaining, creating and coordinating materials for tutorials, articles, webinars and other digital mediums.

In the spirit of open source, you can contribute to WTP Education in many ways. Please provide your feedback, comments and corrections using Bugzilla and select Education as the component. Your contributions are important to us. For more information visit the WTP Education page.

Roughly fixes have been added since the 3. Download it now, or install it as part of Ganymede Service Release 1. Nearly fixes have been made since the 3. This is a great checkpoint for this hatchling XSL component. While it is still incubating, it is quite mature and ready for production use! WTP 2. It is a maintenance release of the Europa version of WTP. This is a relatively minor maintenance, fixing only 8 bugs, but they were 8 especially bad bugs!

See the release page for details. If you already have a previous version of WTP 2. There has been many bug fixes, incremental improvements for end-uesrs functions and new APIs and packages for adopters, but the following are some of the larger, more noticeable contributions made to WTP 3. This release addresses serious defects present in release 2.