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Implementation

1. Coding standards
   • Java
   • Other languages
2. CVS
3. Exception handling
4. I18N & L10N
5. Preferences
6. UI

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Documentation

1. Comments
   • JavaDoc
   • Other
2. Help

Release

1. Features
2. Deploying new plugins

Java Coding Standards

In general, we follow the Sun Java coding convention:
http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html

Steps for deploying new plugins

• Increment the version of your plugin.
• Check out all features from CVS into your Workspace.
• Delete features from the target directory. (but NOT the plugins!) Note: This is a very wrong step that seems to originate from an Eclipse bug in how features are built against a target.
• Increment the version of each updated feature.
• Remove plugins/features from the update site.
• Export RELEASE feature to SEAL update site (Export... => Plug-in Development => Deployable features)
• Check out the "update.seal" project from CVS.
• Update the names and versions of the features in site.xml.
• Export site.xml to SEAL update site. (Export => General => File System)
• Start SEAL in "admin"- mode.
• Update SEAL.
• Build JavaDoc. (optional)
• Commit all changes to CVS.
• Remove all old plugins from the installation site.
• Remove all unnecessary projects from your workspace.
• Reload your Plug-in Development target.

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