Development Priorities¶
TODO: this list is not complete at this time.
Post-Conversion Developer Tools¶
IDE Support¶
- #3881 In conversion and analytics, where we report line/column from cache file we also should report the original unpreprocessed file (proc/class/include) and line/column.
- #1757 ANTLR v4 upgrade
- #3882 Enable front end for simple use as a syntax check and improve the error output.
- #11355 VSCode extension (replaces #3883 and #6319)
- #10700 expose analytics features in our IDE support
- #3703 implement TRPL based linting support
- #10726 calculate and report code quality metrics
- #10701 implement support for generative AI code assist
Misc¶
- #8786 incremental schema conversion and updates
Analytics¶
- #11435 provide full access to Code Analytics from agentic AI
Call Graph¶
- #11437 re-implement call graph hints
- #11436 instrument FWD runtime to generate call graph hints as the converted application executes
- #11438 provide access to Call Graph from agentic AI
Conversion Improvements¶
Incremental Conversion¶
- #6629 incremental conversion for OpenClient proxy programs
- #10639 Incremental conversion: unexpected DMO generation for space-only changes
App by App Conversion / More Dynamic Conversion / Smarter Conversion¶
- #7169 drive conversion order using user-specified dependencies
- #9638 resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes
- #11404 implement annotation-based resolution for database dependencies
- #6407 name_map.xml improvements
- #6320 sharded schemata
- #11423 implement centralized status/error tracking for conversion/dev tools
- #9639 centralized name management (and conversion) OR jar based resolution
- #8525 eliminate the runtime dependency on registry.xml
- #10459 migrate all project configuration into a single jSON configuration file
Conversion Failure Recovery¶
- #7179 rework the conversion process to ensure that it can finish an entire run even when there are failures after parsing
- #7318 prevent abend during conversion in case of failures when processing TRPL rules
- #6889 rollback the files as 'unconverted' if (incremental) conversion fails
TRPL/General Conversion Improvements¶
- #11156 Conversion fails if source folder is a symlink
- #6252 cleanup of p2j.cfg.xml
- #6255 simplify the namespace configuration, part deux
- #1735 lambdas (most is done, finish it)
- #9635 TRPL 2.0
- #1770 / #3211 multithreaded conversion
- #3711 improve/fix comments conversion
- #9636 update/complete parser to OE 12.8.x
- #1755 implement database-backed filtering/walking optimization
- OO improvements
- refactoring
User Interface¶
Mobile Support¶
#11349 ensure that the web client works on iOS devices (both iPad and iPhone)
#11350 ensure that the web client works on Android devices (both tablet and phone)
#3875 complete dynamic layout support for remaining 4GL widgets (and OCX controls)
#11351 implement 4GL language and runtime enhancements for layout strategies (responsive design)
#11352 implement web client support for mobile optimizations and enhancements
#11353 implement support for deployment of the web client as a mobile application using capacitor and/or apache cordova
#11354 implement native mobile client
Runtime Support¶
Logging¶
- #8383 silent errors in logs
- #3853 LOG-MANAGER runtime instrumentation/entrytypes support
- #7147 Make FWD log outputs consistent (Jetty etc...)
- #7236 Inconsistencies in stderr and logs related to MESSAGE and AppError constructor
- #7279 Enhance CentralLogger to support configurable LogFormatter
- #1848 make logging settings controllable dynamically at runtime