ATF milestone 0.2.3M3-v200708101100 is available. The highlights of the
changes in this milestone is below.
An early look at JavaScript Development Tools tentatively planned for WTP
3.0. This is a new component of WST.
The JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) provide very rich JavaScript
editing features. The JSDT maintains an internal model of the JavaScript
being edited, so it can provide many intelligent editing capabilities.
Some of the editing capabilities provided are:
o Code completion
o Syntax highlighting
o Code folding
o Configurable formatting
o Quick fix
o configurable syntax checking/code validation
o Hover help/tips (uses JSDoc if available)
o Occurrences marking
o open selected item
o highlight/goto matching parenthesis/brace/bracket
o add/remove/generate comment
o Typing helpers such as automatically closing strings,
parentheses, brackets;
automatically insert semicolons and braces; and
automatic formatting
Language level search capabilities are provided for searching for
references and or declarations of functions and variables.
There are configurable preferences for:
* Code Appearance
* Templates
* Code Formatting
* Validation options
* Error/Warning levels
* Editor options
Using the existing WTP JavaScript editor instead of JSDT
Two Methods can be used to enable the existing WTP JavaScript editor.
* When installing ATF do not deselect Optional Features "ATF support for
JSDT" and "JavaScript Development Tools JSP Support".
* After installing ATF, you can disable JSDT by selecting the
Help->Software Updates->Manage Configuration menu, then select "ATF
support for JSDT" (under "AJAX Toolkit Framework") and click on Disable.
Do the same for the "JavaScript Development Tools JSP Support" feature
under the "AJAX Toolkit Framework for JST" heading.
Highlight of ATF changes.
ATF support for WST and JST. - ATF has been restructured into a WST
feature and JST feature. A developer using WST no longer need to have JST
installed to use ATF.
"Generic AJAX Runtime" support - The Generic Runtime support allows
almost any Ajax Runtime to be defined to ATF and added to a project.. For
historical reason Ajax Runtime Types for Dojo, Rico, and Scriptaculous
have been predefined. The Ajax Runtimes still need to be manually
downloaded.
Browser popup window support - Support for Browser Popups
New "AJAX Toolkit Project" wizard - New Wizard for creating an Ajax
Project. Using ATF in Static and Dynamic Web project is still supported.
Web Development and Web Browser Tools perspectives - The Mozilla
perspective has been broken out into two different perspectives. Write
your web application in the Web Development perspective, and then switch
to the Web Browser Tools perspective in order to run and inspect your web
application.
Request Monitor - The XHR Monitor view has been renamed to the Request
Monitor and now displays all HTTP requests (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS files, image
requests, etc) in addition to XMLHttpRequest calls
Removal of the personality support - The personality support in ATF has
been dropped. This means that "Create Application wizards" and snippets
for AJAX runtimes will not longer be provided
Removal of support for Zimbra. - Support for the Zimbra runtime has been
dropped.
Support for validation using JSLint has been dropped. - Long term this
functionality will be provided by JSDT.
Extension point org.eclipse.atf.core.runtime is used to define a new AJAX
Toolkit with bindings to a custom installer, a validator, etc. Using this
extension point will cause ATF to show the Toolkit in the list of
supported AJAX Toolkits and allow the end-user to configure the location
of a copy of this Toolkit.
Extension point org.eclipse.atf.core.runtimeInstance is used to provide an
embedded copy of a Toolkit. For example, a vendor might want to ship its
tool already with a copy of Toolkit X. The supported way of doing this is
to embed Toolkit X in a plugin and use this extension point to declare its
existence.
Project Incompatibility
Due to changes in ATF 0.2.3M3, a project created with an older version of
ATF will not have full functionality of the features in JSDT and ATF. You
will need to create a new project under ATF 0.2.3M3, install the
appropriate toolkit(s), and then migrate your code to the new project.
Robert Goodman
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