Re: NetBeans/Matisse Demo

[Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>]

I am still to play with Matisse, but while we are on the Modeler  
topic, yesterday I tried this little plugin engine:

http://platonos.sourceforge.net/

Looks very promising - in just under an hour I created a generic  
Swing shell application that can run arbitrary plugins. The authors  
claim that they followed Eclipse plugin system design, but the  
platonos library size is just 64k (compare that to Eclipse!). I still  
need to get more experience with it, but I think we may switch  
CayenneModeler 2.0 to Platonos.

[In fact I wrote a similar plugin runtime myself for a customer a few  
months ago, but (aside from not being open source) it didn't support  
extension points and hence was fairly inflexible.]

Andrus

On Mar 30, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Michael Gentry (Yes, I'm a Contractor)  
wrote:

> http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/50/netbeans_50/player.html
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> You can skip ahead to the Matisse section.  I like the fact they've  
> copied
> Interface Builder's springs.  Still might be worth considering for  
> a new
> Cayenne Modeler ...
>
> Thoughts/experiences appreciated.  :-)
>
> /dev/mrg
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> I'm Victor. I'm the cleaner.
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