XULRunner:ATF Meeting Notes 20060504

IBM AJAX Tools Framework

Meeting Notes 4-May-2006

Attendees

Benjamin Smedberg Javier Pedemonte Adam Peller

Notes

• ATF project is open
  • Newsgroup and mailing list available

• Remote debugging and inspection using Java RMI
  • Demonstrated a simple "click me" prompt launched from Eclipse, run by separate Firefox process

• Have Google SOC contributors that want to help
  • Want to integrate XUL IDE development (EclipseXUL)
  • Need to identify who is going to be officially mentoring

• XUL IDE work being done by Phil Berkland - early work-in-progress, code being checked into Laszlo repo: org.eclipse.laszlo.xul in CVS?

• JSD Issues
  • code sometimes (important times) assumes that's it's being called from a JS context stack
  • JSD doesn't expose stepping, you get a callback for each call invocation which ends up with lots of hackery to determine if a callback is occuring in the same codeflow as the last callback
  • Some smaller JS engine bugs, bug 326580 for example
  • Need some JSD API redesign and cleanup -- need to identify resources (summer interns?)

• Have preliminary Java component loader, want to do an extension release for the branches (implementing nsIComponentLoader)
  • need to port to trunk nsIModuleLoader
  • ASM.objectweb.org released code under BSD license that does class/interface generation on the fly... want to import this code and release it under a contrib/ directory somewhere; need to contact the author to detemine originality of code