Difference between revisions of "Uno/To-Dos"

Revision as of 20:24, 6 September 2006

ToDos and potential ToDos.

General

• Move documentation from http://udk.openoffice.org into the Uno wiki, see Uno/Effort/Migrate Documentation for details.

Clear Separation between C and C++ and Core Components

• Move C++ stuff from udk/cppu to udk/cppuhelper.
• Move udk/cppuhelper bootstrap stuff to Binary Uno and let it provide a 'C' interface. Implement current udk/cppuhelper API as wrappers.
• Move udk/cppuhelper/source/shlib.cxx into the library loader (udk/stoc/source/loader. Let the library loader provide a C/C++ API.
• Move udk/cppuhelper/source/component_context.cxx into into its own core component in udk/stoc.

Naming Clean up

• Rename module udk/cppu to reflect that it is implementing the Binary Uno runtime.
• Rename module udk/cppuhelper to reflect that it is implementing the C++ Uno runtime.
• Move the util/io module from the util project into the UDK project.
• Move the udk/jut/util module into the UDK project.
• Rename the Binary Uno to JNI (Jave Native Interface) bridge: java_uno -> jni_uno. Because that is what the bridge is about.
• Rename the Binary Uno to Remote Uno bridge: urp_uno -> remote_uno. Because that is what the bridge is about (actually, there is no URP object to program against, at least not in Binary Uno).
• Remove the "lib" prefixes under UNIX from the Binary Uno bridges.
• Rename udk/cpputools to something like "unotools" (unfortunately this name is already in use).

Simplification and Performance

• Remove the Binary Uno Object Binary Interface (OBI) (struct uno_Interface) and friends, replace it with one of the platform C++ OBIs.
• Support direct access of Uno types in Uno IDL, without includes.
• Let the *makers retrieve type information from the type providers and not from rdb files.
• Harmonize initial object access for Remote Uno and components -> it is actually the same. E.g.

  "uno:library;[gcc3];<implementation name>"

  may be used to access an instance factory, or any other object of interest.
• Leverage Purpose Bridges for global variables, e.g. the "ServiceManager" or the "ComponentContext". Use this for bootstrapping as well. E.g.

  Reference<XComponentContext> cppu::getComponentContext();

  always returns the current component context. It is usable in components, libraries or applications and may even bootstrap Uno, if no context is available yet.
• Remove all exception specifications.
• Consolidate the Binary Uno structs "uno_Environment" and "uno_ExtEnvironment".
• Remove #ifndef EXCEPTIONS_OFF macros, actually C++ Uno is not usable without exceptions anyway.
• Is SAL_CALL really necessary for "inline" stuff? If not, remove it.
• Unify command line interface for all Uno tools.
• Convert the ProxyFactory service into a library and deprecate it.

Features

• Introduce process lifecycle based on living threads.
• Have Uno package support for the URE.
• Move the UCB into the URE.
• Move the configr mgr. into the URE.
• Uno alien type support e.g. for Java (e.g. a type description provider implemented in Java based on Java reflection).
• A Uno-SOAP Bridge.
• Allow (remote) proxy detection, needed for remote detection and optimizations.
• Zones.
• Write man pages.
• Various IDE integrations.
• Allow connection parameters in environment descriptions for remote environments, e.g.

  "remote[urp,socket=<port>,host=<name>]"

  .