Re: [wtp-dev] ISV guide for WTP

[Lawrence Mandel <lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Although I'm jumping the gun on this
(the WTP meeting isn't for 1.5 hours) option 1 is not a good choice for
the WTP. The WTP has two subprojects for a defined reason. Although some
may want to extend the WTP in the J2EE arena, others may only be interested
in extending the WST. The latter may be for such languages as Perl, PHP,
and ASP. We should not require these latter type extenders to have to weed
through JST ISV docs to get at what they're interested in.

The WTP currently uses option 2 and
this discussion should really be whether the ISV docs need to be further
divided by component.

Lawrence Mandel

Software Developer
IBM Rational Software
Phone: 905 - 413 - 3814   Fax: 905 - 413 - 4920
lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx

Susan Yeshin/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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06/30/2005 12:21 PM

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Subject	[wtp-dev] ISV guide for WTP

Eclipse help usually has two audiences, end users, and ISVs. The end users
will be using WTP to create 'web artifacts'. ISVs will be extending the
tools provided in WTP. The docs written for the different audiences are
distinguished in the Eclipse projects with the extensions .doc.user and
.doc.isv so companies using the docs can easily choose which plug-ins they
want to provide to their users. 

There are three possible formats for providing the ISV information for
WTP. I would like to discuss which is the most appropriate for this project.
1. Provide a single guide for WTP 
2. Separate the information for ISVs into WST and JST guides
3. Create separate guides for each component 

I'm not sure if companies will use or deliver WTP as a whole, or if they
will be able to choose which tools for extending components that they will
provide in a product. I'd like to decide the format at today's WTP meeting.

The user documentation will be componentized as is standard for Eclipse
projects. 

Thanks,
Susan Yeshin

Rational Tools Information Development
IBM Toronto Lab
D3 - 446
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(905) 413-3662
t/l 8-969-3662
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