For the purposes of marketing Luna, we need five-ish points to present
to the press.
A while back, I opened a bug [1] to capture the "hot topics" for Luna. I
thank everybody who participated in that discussion.
We have a handful of points, but I'm concerned that we can/should be
able to do a little better. I'm concerned that what we have is not all
that "new and noteworthy", at least from a marketing perspective.
We can include as many bullets as we'd like on the Luna projects page
[2], but for the main Luna page (/luna) and for marketing outreach, we
need to settle on five things that will make people want to take a
closer look.
Here's what I have so far:
* Eclipse Luna includes official support for Java^(TM) 8 in the Java
development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse
Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext and Xtend. The Eclipse
compiler includes language enhancements, search and refactoring, Quick
Assist and Clean Up to migrate anonymous classes to lambda expressions
and back, and new formatter options for lambdas.
* The Eclipse workbench provides a new dark theme which includes syntax
highlighter settings for several programming languages.
* Paho provides open source implementations of open and standard
messaging protocols that support current and emerging requirements of
IoT integration with Web and Enterprise middleware and applications.
* The Eclipse Communication Project's (ECF) specification-compliant
implementation of OSGi Remote Service/Remote Service Admin has been
enhanced to support the use of Java 8's CompletableFuture for
asynchronous remote services.
* Sirius allows architects to easily create their own graphical modeling
workbenches by leveraging the Eclipse modeling technologies, including
Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF).
EcoreTools, the graphical modeler for Ecore, has been completely
re-implemented based on Sirius.
We've already had the discussion with the press regarding Java 8. I
still think that it belongs on the list. While I'd like to keep ECF on
this short list, I'm not sure how much hay we can make from it at
marketing level. Ian is the expert here, so he and I will make the final
decision together.
In a fit of what I might call desperation, I crafted a bullet from the
project page for Paho. I think that we can do better, but I need help
from the Paho project to make that happen. I did something similar with
Sirius.
I need more input. I had closed the bug, but I've reopened it. Your
attention is needed.
Let's please keep the conversation on the bug (i.e. keep it in one place
so we don't get mixed up)
Wayne
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=434147
[2] https://projects.eclipse.org/releases/luna
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