May 2008 Archives

Before E4 Summit I'd like to summarize my wishes for E4

• Modern UI layer like WPF or JavaFX (I blogged a lot on this already)
• Embedded EMF database and EMF everywhere
• Transactional Workspace
• JavaSpaces-alike programming model for event handling, concurrency, and distributed computing support
• Extensive (or full) use of modern programming language (hint: not Java)

I'm feeling like heretic when posting to E4 mailing list, so my last posts did not went there (this one regarding OSGi/SWT/EMF Trinity looks to be a straight road to anathema). But I'm already on this road, so I'd like spell my key wishes for E4. Below are my "two things" or what I'd like to see in E4...