eZ Components 2009.1
====================

*Status:* tentative

*Expected release date:* June 29th, 2009

Mission
-------

In this release our main focus is to improve the new MVC support in eZ
Components by making it both more powerful and easier to use.  Besides this
main focus, we will also enhance some of the critical components that the
upcoming version of `eZ Publish`_ will require.

.. _`eZ Publish`: http://ez.no/ezpublish


Enhancing existing components
-----------------------------

Additionally, the existing components will be improved further. 
Major parts here are the following:

Authentication
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Support for OpenID 2.


Document
~~~~~~~~

- Support for PDF writing and the support of layouts while
  writing.

If time permits:

- Support for the MediaWiki wiki format and Markdown_.
- Support for PDF reading.

.. _Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/


Framework/MvcTools
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Although Framework  is a "new" component, it only adds to the existing
MvcTools functionality.

- Proper authentication filters (this might mean having to set-up a 
  delayed-initialization mechanism).
- Reverse route generation


PersistentObject
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Identity mapping: Avoids the problem of having 2 objects with the same
  database state and caches object relations.
- Support for automatic fetching of related objects.
- Support for tweaking class/property names with definition generation.


Search
~~~~~~

- Finish support for the Zend_Search_Lucene backend.
- Support for Solr 1.3/1.4.


TemplateTranslationTiein
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Scripts for extracting translatable strings from templates and code.

If time permits:

- Updated contexts_ support to allow for proper JavaScript escaping.

.. _contexts: http://ezcomponents.org/docs/api/latest/introduction_Template.html#contexts



New components
--------------

We are not planning any new components, except for the possible inclusion of
the following two contributed components:

ExtendedReflection
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Basic layer for static analysis for source code, to build a web service
generation framework on. 

SystemProcess
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The SystemProcess component presents a set of features to execute and handle
external applications in an easy and manageable way. It takes care of the
underlying system calls and specialties like different path formatting or
signal handling to provide a platform independent but yet flexible way to work
with external applications.