EDT Possible Future Scenarios (no commitments)

IBM is continuing to re-assess EDT direction, which will be influenced by participation of the partner and customer community involved.

The possible scenarios are:

• EDT 0.8.2 is stabilized with limited IBM contributions going forward.
• EDT 1.0 is delivered solely by IBM as separate toolkit, but not merged with RBD.
• EDT is bundled in with RBD to

• become the RUI (Javascript) development tool
• become the "new" style services tool (SQL only)
• create tighter integration with RBD style services/programs, etc.
• possibly create migration of RUIs to EDT style
• use EDT portion for
• RUI Enhancements
• new generators for Mobile/Cloud

We do not foresee the following:

• RBD being rewritten/refactored so that is is based on EDT
• Migration tools being written to allow interchange of code between EDT and RBD

EDT 0.8.2 is available

I'm proud to announce EDT 0.8.2. Get it via the update function of Eclipse, or visit our download page for other installation options.

See what's new and noteworthy in this release.

We hope you will try it out. Let us know if you find any issues.

Matt

What's cooking in the EDT kitchen? - January 8

We're making a few final updates to EDT 0.8.2.  We'll build a release candidate by the end of the week, and the final release build should be available a week after that.

Matt

What's cooking in the EDT kitchen? - January 2

Happy new year everyone.  Most of us EDT developers are back at work now.  We're running tests and fixing the bugs we find -- and we haven't found very many.

Matt