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(Massive update in build-notes takes into account all action between 2004-06-24 and 2005-06-24)

Summary of API and non-API changes

• Summary of changes in the Runtime
  • Dynamic Plug-ins - We added a package with helper classes to aid clients when making their plug-ins dynamic and dynamic aware. Check out the classes in org.eclipse.core.runtime.dynamichelpers.
  • Preferences - We added filters for import/export (IPreferenceFilter) and modify listeners to aid in plug-in preference migration. Check out the IPreferenceFilter and PreferenceModifyListener types for more information.
  • Jobs - Minor changes were made to the jobs API to allow rule transfer and querying of the manager for idle jobs. See JobManager#isIdle and JobManager#transferRule.
  • Content types - The heuristics for content type matching were changed. For weak content matching, now general content types win over specific ones (bug 86915). For any given level of content matching, content types matching the full file name always appear before those matching only the extension (bug 90218).
  • Paths - Some of the rules for IPaths were made less strict to allow for more allowable resource names. For instance, projects with a colon in the name can be created on Linux. See IPath#toPortableString, Path#fromPortableString, bug 24152 and this proposal for more information.
  • IAdaptorManager computeClassOrder, computeAdaptorTypes
  • Platform Line Delimiters - In order to help make a consistent line delimiter story across all components in the SDK, we created some Core preference keys to help aid in storing these values. See bug 3970 for more information.
  • Message Bundles - In order to improve performance (both time and space) of resource message bundles we implemented the basis for a new message bundle mechanism in the OSGi layer that other plug-ins can take advantage of. See this document for more details.
  • Shipping Plug-ins as JARs - We made many changes in order to allow plug-in developers to be able to ship their plug-ins as single JAR files. This process is described in more detail here.
• Summary of changes in the org.eclipse.core.resources plug-in
  • Large-Scale Development - Many changes were made as part of the effort to help users with large-scale project development. We added new API on IProject#open to allow an existing project to be opened immediately and then its contents will be brought into the workspace in the background via a background refresh.
  • Resource Attributes - Eclipse has always had problems with respect to file permissions when importing existing files from the file system. We added a ResourceAttributes class to help with this. Clients are now able to create an attribute object, set the appropriate flags on it, and then set it on the resource.
  • Indexed Store - The indexed store that we used for the local history and persistent properties was re-written. The old code was factored out and now lives in the org.eclipse.core.resources.compatibility plug-in.

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API changes

• New APIs have been added to support client notification of file encoding and content type changes. Unfortuanatly this API was added too late in the release cycle for implementation to follow. It will be addressed soon after 3.0 ships. For more information see bug 59899

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API changes

• API in the org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility plug-in has been deprecated. See the Porting Guide for more details.
• As per the plan item (bug 37696) the org.apache.xerces plug-in has been removed from the Eclipse SDK builds.
• A new preference mechanism has been rolled out and the old preferences have been re-written in terms of the new APIs. See the org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences package in the org.eclipse.core.runtime plug-in for more details.
• Users are now able to build working sets rather than having to build the entire workspace. See the plan item bug report (bug 50816) for more details.
• The org.eclipse.core.resources API is no longer dependant on classes which reside in the compatibility layer. Only one method existed, IProject#getPluginWorkingLocation(IPluginDescriptor) and this has been replaced by IProject#getWorkingLocation(String). See bug 59355 for details. Note that the implementation of the Resources plug-in still relies on the compatibility layer and the removal of this dependancy is an issue which will be addressed post-3.0.

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API changes

• Equinox work on new runtime has been merged into HEAD on dev.eclipse.org and is now apart of the regular (integration, nightly and milestone) builds. Check the Platform/Core team web site for more information as well as a porting guide for API changes. Note: as a result of the changes, some of the Runtime code has been refactored into a new project. (org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility) This is covered in the on-line documentation.
• Changes have been made to the concurrency model and Core now exposes a new job API for clients. Details can be found on the Platform/Core team web site and in the org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs package.
• The Auto-Refresh Plug-in (which was originally contributed to Core by Jed as a separate plug-in) has both been integrated into Core as well as been converted to use the new Jobs APIs. The ResourcesPlugin.PREFS_AUTO_REFRESH preference is exposed as a Work-in-progress preference in the Workbench preferences.

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• Released early versions of new core runtime API (in the org.eclipse.core.runtime and org.eclipse.core.runtime.registry packages) for supporting dynamically installing plug-ins (without requiring restart), and registering listeners for changes in the plug-in registry. See plan item page for more info on this.
• Support was added for progress monitors that provide feedback when the current thread is blocked due to ongoing background activity. See the new type IProgressMonitorWithBlocking for more details.
• A new preference was added to the runtime plugin for specifying a performance setting (Platform.PREF_PLATFORM_PERFORMANCE). Users set the value of this preference depending on the speed of their computer. Any component can use this setting to determine if CPU-intensive features should be enabled. The platform job scheduler will use this value to decide how much concurrent background activity it will allow. This API is experimental and still under development.

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• Autobuild in the background!! When automatic build is enabled, it now runs in a background thread. This makes all workspace changing API more responsive. See plan item bug report 36957 for more details.
• New constant ResourcesPlugin.FAMILY_AUTO_BUILD for manipulating the background autobuild job. This allows clients to query or join a background autobuild in progress.
• New API on IResource to get or set the local file system time stamp. This uses an in-memory cache to greatly improve the performance of retrieving or changing the local time stamp. New methods are IResource.getLocalTimeStamp and IResource.setLocalTimeStamp. See API javadoc for more details.
• There have been various tweaks to the IJobManager API that caused breaking changes. Job.run has been made protected to prevent clients from calling it directly, and IJobManager.endRule now requires the scheduling rule to be specified as a parameter.

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• Several deadlock problems were fixed for this build. Please continue to enter bug reports against platform core if you see new deadlocks.

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• Added experimental API to IJobManager for applying a scheduling rule to a particular thread. This is a breaking change because it required adding a method to ISchedulingRule.
• Made API changes in resources plug-in to support scheduling rules. IResource now extends ISchedulingRule, so any resource handle can be used as a job scheduling rule. New API on IWorkspace allows running an IWorkspaceRunnable with a given scheduling rule applied. This will block until it is safe to run, and then batch the changes as in a normal IWorkspaceRunnable.

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• Added new core runtime API package for scheduling and running background activity. This package is the core component for the responsiveness plan item outlined in bug 36957. See the plan item home page for more details. See also the API javadoc for the new org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs package.

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• Added a new preference to the org.eclipse.core.resources plug-in which allows an application to veto the usage of linked resources for the whole workspace. See ResourcesPlugin.PREF_DISABLE_LINKING.

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• BootLoader.getNL() was spec'd to return a String or null but has been changed so the return value will never be null.
• Added IncrementalProjectBuilder.needRebuild() and IncrementalProjectBuilder.hasBeenBuilt(IProject) to help acommodate recent changes with building projects with cyclic dependancies.
• Added IResourceProxy.getSessionProperty(QualifiedName) so users don't have to request the underlying resource from the proxy in order to get access to a particular session property.
• Added IWorkspace.isTreeLocked() so clients can determine whether or not the workspace tree is locked for changes.
• Added API to IWorkspaceDescription for setting/getting the values to use for the number of iterations for building projects with cyclic dependancies. Also added a preference constant to ResourcesPlugin to aid with this.

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• Added IMarker.TRANSIENT attribute key to be used to over-ride the persistent element declaration for a marker type in the plugin.xml.
• Added IMarker.USER_EDITABLE attribute key to be used as a hint to the UI as whether or not to make the task list item editable by the user.
• Added IResourceStatus.WORKSPACE_LOCKED to be used in a CoreException when a user tries to perform an operation on the workspace when the tree is locked.

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• IResourceStatus.VARIABLE_NOT_DEFINED_WARNING indicating that a workspace variable unexpectedly does not exist.
• Updated spec of IResource.copy and IResource.move with respect to copy/move between resources in the same hierarchy.

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• New API for more efficient visiting of resource trees. This new visitor mechanism allows clients to traverse resource trees very quickly, by avoiding the creation of unnecessary objects during the traversal. See the new types org.eclipse.core.resources.IResourceProxyVisitor and org.eclipse.core.resources.IResourceProxy, and the corresponding new accept methods on org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource.

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• ILibrary.getPackagePrefixes was added to take advantage of class loader enhancements via mark-up in the plug-in manifest files.
• The spec for copying and moving resources was changed with respect to local history. Local history is now moved along with a file to the destination. For more details see IResource.copy and IResource.move.
• The String keys for the Core Resources preference values were added to the ResourcesPlugin class.

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• IResource.getLocation now specifies behaviour for linked resources. Note that there are now more cases where it may return null.
• IWorkspace.validateLinkLocation now tests for: whether the resource's parent is a project, its team provider vetos link creation, and its natures veto link creation.
• New API was created for IPathVariableManager.validateValue so the user is able to pre-validate link values before link creation.

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• Last build a new constant (IResource.DEEP) was created for dealing with copying and moving linked resources. After careful consideration this was changed to have the opposite logic (IResource.SHALLOW) and the default behavior for copy and move is to do a DEEP action. See bug 26933 for more information.
• IResource.getRawLocation() was created to get the unresolved workspace path of a resource. (workspace path without any path variables resolved) See bug 26013 for more details.

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• In order to help with sorting markers by their creation time, we added a timestamp to markers. See: IMarker.getCreationTime() for more details.
• Linked Resources - New API has been added to support the creation and manipulation of linked resources. Full details can be found in the proposals on the Top Ten Issues page on dev.eclipse.org.
• Path Variables - We added support for workspace path variables. These can be used in conjunction with linked resources (described above). See the following classes/methods for more information: IWorkspace.getPathVariableManager, IPathVariableManager, IPathVariableChangeListener, IPathVariableChangeEvent.
• Build Order Computation - The algorithm to calculate the default project build order in the workspace has changed. The new API for this method is: IWorkspace.computeProjectOrder. The old method (IWorkspace.computePrerequisiteOrder) has been deprecated.
• We added basic line information to plug-in model objects. This is set by the parser when they are read from the plugin.xml file. See PluginModelObject.getStartLine() for more details.

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• Classloader Properties - We added some classloader performance enhancement. They are described in this document.

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• Added support to get the file encoding for IFiles. See IFile.getEncoding for more details.
• Added a validation method for creating plug-in version identifiers. See PluginVersionIdentifier.validateVersion for more details.

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• Added API on org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspaceDescription to get automatic snapshot interval.

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• Added API on org.eclipse.core.runtime.Preferences for importing/exporting user preferences to a file. See org.eclipse.core.runtime.Preferences for more information.

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• Added ARCH constant in org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader for the PA_RISC architecture.
• Updated IWorkspace.validateEdit as per bug 12679.

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• Removed plugin org.eclipse.core.target.

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• Added new API to IWorkspaceDescription for setting/getting the snapshot interval for the delayed snapshot thread. See IWorkspaceDescription for more information.

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• Added new API to org.eclipse.core.runtime.BootLoader to return the lists of known OS, ARCH, and WS values. See the BootLoader class for more details.
• Added new constants BootLoader.OS_MACOSX and BootLoader.WS_CARBON. See the BootLoader class for more details.

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• The non-API class org.eclipse.core.launcher.UIMain has been removed. Code previously calling this class can reference org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main since UIMain was a wrapper to call Main with the workbench application, and now the application will be picked up from the primary feature.

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• Added a new constant (PREF_ENCODING) and API (ResourcesPlugin.getEncoding()) to help with persistence of the encoding type to use when reading text files. See org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin and the Platform/UI build notes for details.
• Added new API IWorkspace.loadProjectDescription(IPath) which loads a project description file from a .project file on disk. The resulting description file can be used to create the project via the IProject.create APIs. This method is useful for discovering the name of a project from a .project file. See IWorkspace.loadProjectDescription for more details.
• Added API for IPluginDescriptor.find to match the API Plugin.find. These methods are functionally equivalent except the method on IPluginDescriptor does not require the plugin to be activated. Also note that the resulting URL is NEVER a platform: URL and thus does not need to be resolved via Platform.resolve. (although calling #resolve will be a no-op and not cause any harm) See IPluginDescriptor for more details.
• Added new API IResource.isSynchronized(int) which will return a boolean value indicating whether or not the given resource is considered to be synchronized with the local file system to the given depth. See IResource.isSychronized for more information.

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• The format of the .log file has changed and the file now persists through Eclipse sessions. Eclipse does not remove it automatically anymore.

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• The following API classes have been removed from org.eclipse.core.runtime:
• ComponentModel
• ConfigurationModel
• InstallModel
All related constants and code have been removed as well.  These API classes were not deprecated since they are currently non-functional.

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• Previously preference settings were support by UI API which limits this to UI plug-ins. This functionality has been moved to Runtime so all plug-ins can leverage this support. This is also a stepping stone in supporting the product customization story. See the class org.eclipse.core.runtime.Preferences for more details.

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• Support for automatically adding the /fragments directory to a plugin's class path has been removed.

What this means:
- Fragments are now able to live as siblings of their plugins. That is, they both can reside in the same /plugins directory.
- Fragments living in the /fragments directory will NOT automatically be found when running.

How to fix your fragments:
- Move your fragments from <eclipseInstall>/fragments/ to <eclipseInstall>/plugins/.
- Nothing else should be necessary to make this work. (e.g. you do NOT need to rename the fragment.xml file).

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• The IResourceTree API (used in conjunction with the IMoveDeleteHook by the Team providers) has been modified to fix inconsistencies and to make it more useable by the providers. Most notable was the removal of the begin/end move folder/project.

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• Added the IMoveDeleteHook interface for the Team plugin to hook. See the interfaces IMoveDeleteHook and IResourceTree for more information. Current limitations:
• Signalling a project move by #beginMoveProject/#endMoveProject does not work. (clients must call #movedProjectSubTree)
• A project move fail if the resources are out of sync with the local file system and the force flag is false. (Note that it does NOT try to move all in-sync resources)
• The project description file has been moved from the project metadata area to the project content area into a file called ".project". Current limitations:
• If #setContents is called on the .project file the changes are reflected in the project description in memory during the next resource change notification.
• If new content is discovered for the .project file from a #refreshLocal the changes are reflected in the project description in memory during the next resource change notification.

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• Added API to find the deletedMembers of a container which have local history. See IContainer.findDeletedMembersWithHistory for details.
• Consolidated many IResource and IWorkspace APIs (delete, copy, move, etc) to use integers specifying flags, rather than having multiple booleans as parameters. See IResource and IWorkspace for details.
• Added more support for natures. See IProjectNatureDescriptor and nature related methods on IWorkspace.

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• Plugin registry caching has been enabled by default. On startup, a registy cache is checked against the plugin and fragment files on disk. If it is determined that there are no changes then the cache is used rather than parsing the XML files. If the user does not want to use the registry cache mechanism, then there is a command line argument "-noregistrycache" which can be used to enforce parsing of the XML files.

Resolved Bugs

• Click here to see PRs which have been marked as RESOLVED, VERIFIED or CLOSED since the last integration build.

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• None.

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• None.

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• Added org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.getOSArch(). This method returns the string name of the current system architecture. The value is a user-defined string if the architecture is specified on the command line, otherwise it is the value returned by java.lang.System.getProperty("os.arch").

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• None.

Resolved Bugs

• Click here to see PRs which have been marked as RESOLVED, VERIFIED or CLOSED since the last integration build.

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• None.

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• None.

Resolved Bugs

• Click here to see PRs which have been marked as RESOLVED, VERIFIED or CLOSED since the last integration build.

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• None.

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• None.

Resolved Bugs

• Click here to see PRs which have been marked as RESOLVED, VERIFIED or CLOSED since the last integration build.

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• None.

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• None.

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• None.

Other highlights

• 5944  Bug in Path.append
• 6082  Renaming Project from project to PROJECT messes everything up (2.0)

Eclipse Platform Build Notes
Core

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API changes

• 5668 - Plugin version match on fragments too restrictive - added match attribute to fragments

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• None.

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• None.

Other highlights

• 5031  API - Review comments related to resource change notifications

Eclipse Platform Build Notes
Core

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API changes

• 5039  IFile.create with force true does not handle case variants
• The compromise is that methods that create files and folders on disk will return

a special status constant in the CoreException if a case variant collision is
detected.  This constant is IResourceStatus.CASE_VARIANT_EXISTS.  The idea is
that at least this allows the programmatic detection of this case, so
appropriate handling can be written.

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• None.

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Core

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API changes

• 5158 Core extensions are a mess?
• Released documentation fixes to our repository.  No change in code, no change required by clients.
• 3041  magic 'aux' name not handled by refactoring (1GEUO7L)
• Added platform specific resource name validation checks to IWorkspace#validateName.  The given refactoring case still doesn't give pretty results (big error dialog), but there's no more walkbacks. The API comment was updated.
• 5002  API IncrementalProjectBuilder#build should mention how to handle cancel
• Added a line in the javadoc recommending how cancelation should be handled.

 

Other highlights

• 3048 resource name != file name? (1GF2SPG)
• This restriction has been removed.  It is now legal to create resource names involving semi-colons and commas.

Eclipse Platform Build Notes
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API changes

• 5256  XML: plugin prerequisites - match attribute changes

Other highlights

• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

3027  Integrate changes to core lib (1GDKWLA)
3122  -dev bin not removed from application arguments (1GJUABB)

Closed Problem Reports

3000  Hidden files not handled correctly (1FWHT63)
3029  Case sensitive and validity problems (1GDS96P)
3040  Potential deadlock on Java Project creation (1GETAUS)
3073  NPE in indexer printed to the console (1GFKO41)
3099  StreamCorruptedException showing in log file (1GI94QR)
3561  walkback creating class (named "AUX") (1G8VLRY)
5102  Second builder not getting delta from the first

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API changes

• 3133  API - clarify IProjectDescription.setLocation (1GKS62X)

Added the following paragraph:
 * This operation maps the root folder of the project to the exact location
 * provided.  For example, if the location for project named "P" is set
 * to the path c:\my_plugins\Project1, the file resource at workspace path
 * /P/index.html  would be stored in the local file system at
 * c:\my_plugins\Project1\index.html.

Other highlights

• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

3035  duplicate dir structure created while creating .metadata (1GE8WDW)
3082  Problem with UUID and IP address (1GGRLEK)
3137  Performance: slow autobuild with many projects (1GL4NI5)
5059  IPath#append API different then implementation

Closed Problem Reports

2995  Missing content types from server (1FU2JQO)
2999  ISVs need to be able to validate rename (1FWHSSI)
3001  Deletion fails if MS Explorer is opened on workbench folders (1FWLYJ2)
3094  Extra directory created under ide-beta (1GHJBG2)
3090  Misc performance issues (1GHH6WS)
3097  Inconsistent API and implementation for IContainer and Container (1GHSNM1)

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• None.

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• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

None.

Closed Problem Reports

1GLBU8U: ITPCORE:WINNT - UTFDataFormatException opening a 202a workspace with 203
1GF0ZHZ: ITPJCORE:WIN2000 - NPE in Indexing thread (build 35!)
1GEL7MV: ITPJUI:ALL - Performance: working with autobuild is not possible

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Core

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• None.

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• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

1GKS8UD: ITPCORE:ALL - Copying files on Linux using Ant loses files permissions
1GKS5F8: ITPCORE:ALL - File loses attributes when contents are set/appended
1GKRUXD: ITPCORE:WINNT - "receiver" is a bad API word
1GKDEQ5: ITPCORE:WINNT - DCR: possible delta API changes
1GKD0C8: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Nit: provider name for xerces is inconsistent
1GHOPB4: ITPCORE:WINNT - Class loader performance
1GGM3JX: ITPCORE:ALL - Marker deltas for changed markers reflect new state
1GFL45K: ITPCORE:ALL - File.create does not always close the stream
1GEGYX7: ITPCORE:ALL - Check modification stamp
1GET4T6: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Prevent a workspace being opened twice
1GE28GZ: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - look for problem code 13
1GDIL18: ITPCORE:ALL - Don't modify marker dirty bit if transient

Closed Problem Reports

1GIVK8A: ITPCORE:ALL - Opening multiple instances of Eclipse on the same target
1GIGQ9V: ITPCORE:WINNT - IPath - inconsistency between API and implementation
1GI8ZMM: ITPCORE:ALL - launching Eclipse.exe multiple times
1GI8X55: ITPCORE:ALL - opening the same workspace / platform data area twice
1GI3CPS: ITPCORE:WINNT - ResourceInfos not cleaned up after deletion
1GHQ0AP: ITPCORE:WINNT - Not available builders not handled nicely
1GEWI5C: ITPJUI:ALL - inconsistent IPath API
1GEWF2M: ITPCORE:ALL - Metadata directory contains dot-whatever files
1GEHAAS: ITPVCM:WINNT - Performance: catching up hangs
1GE7206: ITPUI:ALL - Canceling rename may create two projects
1GDT696: ITPJCORE:WINNT - Performance: Auto-Build does full build after a while
1G5SV9O: ITPCORE:WIN - PlunginStats and ResourceStats

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Core

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API changes

• None.

Other highlights

• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

1GK9KQN: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Soft Prereqs - Ignore incompatible versions
1GK9755: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Orphaned plugin picks wrong prerequisite

Closed Problem Reports

1GKMN8V: ITPCORE:ALL - Need easier way to access child deltas
1GKM7OQ: ITPCORE:WINNT - Stack overflow shutting down workspace

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• None.

Other highlights

• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

1GJUFYH: ITPCORE:ALL - ResourceInfo.setSynInfo has a concurrency info
1GJNHIP: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Multiple version prerequisite confuses resolver
1GHWFC5: ITPCORE:ALL - Performance: AdapterManager#getFactory(Class, Class)
1GHH81D: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Multiple versions of fragments not handled properly
1GFIE1Q: ITPJUI:WIN2000 - Non-obvious error message when creating a project
1GBZ5GB: ITPCORE:WIN - Performance: is refresh local producing unecessary garbage?
1G85WX2: ITPCORE:WINNT - Soft prereqs

Closed Problem Reports

1GJ7ZV5: ITPUI:WINNT - ANT.UI: MissingResourceBundle
1GFOG2P: ITPCORE:WINNT - Progress bar for refresh from local is not very accurate
1GFBQVP: ITPCORE:ALL - Performance: Project creation time
1GF9WSC: ITPCORE:ALL - Remove workspace linking on restore?
1GF9NQD: ITPCORE:ALL - Optimization of findExistingResourceVariant method
1GEVOEW: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - Performance tracking PR
1GDF4FX: ITPJCORE:WIN2000 - Performance: Strange Build behaviour
1G3PBWX: ITPCORE:ALL - dtree and watson refactoring

Eclipse Platform Build Notes
Core

What's new in this drop

API changes

• The interface AntRunnerListener (package org.eclipse.ant.core) is renamed IAntRunnerListener for consistency with Eclipse namimg conventions.

Other highlights

• None.

Problem reports fixed

Fixed Problem Reports

1GJ9RRK: ITPCORE:ALL - Unused temporary variables
1GJ6OIO: ITPCORE:ALL - Typo in IWorkspace javadoc
1GIKD70: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - API: AntRunnerListener should be called IAntRunnerListener
1GIIQOK: ITPCORE:ALL - Obsolete import statement on ConfigurationElement
1GII85Y: ITPCORE:ALL - Obsolete import statement on IResource
1GHST7H: ITPCORE:ALL - IWorkspace typo
1GGEPM1: ITPCORE:WIN2000 - More than one runtime element allowed in plugin.xml
1GAIYEE: ITPCORE:ALL - Performance: Marker attributes

Closed Problem Reports

1GJLIRE: ITPCORE:Linux - Symlinks are "dangerous" to use
1GHGSSM: ITPCORE:WINNT - strange resource string in exception