A version of Teiid Designer should be available that does not include the ability to perform data preview, connection management, and VDB execution. This design-time Designer would be suited to users that are strictly data modelers. A "design-time only" Designer would have a reduced footprint over the current Designer. Another Designer that is more suited to users that test models and VDBs would then be needed. We would build this Designer by adding on the data preview, connection management, and VDB execution capabilities to the "design-time only" Designer. Eclipse features are the way that different builds of the Designer can be accomplished.

We have done a pretty good job of isolating the data preview, connection management, and VDB execution code into their own Eclipse plugins. The Eclipse plugins that were designed to handle these capabilities are the dqp, dqp.ui, and sqlexplorer plugins. However, there are a few cases of code found in "design-time only" plugins that depend on these data preview, connection management, and VDB execution plugins. These cases will have to be addressed in order to complete this task. Separate JIRAs should be written for these cases as they are found and tied to this JIRA.