[dtp-pmc] Petitioning for late inclusion of critical bug BZ 193421 in DT

[brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all...

While testing internally, we hit upon
a use case that had not been tested in pure DTP by itself. We have a connection
profile which defines a wizard and a wizard category, but the profile does
not have a parent profile category. So for example, we have a Category
called "Service Containers" that we use to group a set of service-capable
app servers. Each profile that fits into this container has its own new
profile wizard, but contributes it to the parent wizard category instead
of omitting the wizard category like all of our other profiles have so
far. Well, when we hit the category selection page, it tries to cast the
parent wizard as a profile wizard and throws the CCE. 

The fix I will attach is a single line. It should not affect any other
adopters except for Sybase, but will make the framework that much more
robust and easier to extend for other adopters. 

This is a critical fix from Sybase's point of view, as the CCE prevents
the child wizard from progressing (i.e. you can hit Next as many times
as you want and just throw CCEs, never progressing to the next page).

Sorry for the lateness of this bug. I wasn't aware of it until today.

--Fitz

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=193421

Brian Fitzpatrick
Senior Software Engineer/DTP Committer
Sybase, Inc.