[THOUGHTS] OpenEJB Plugin Foundations

["Daniel S. Haischt" <da...@googlemail.com>]

Hi all,

recently I was thinking about whether it would make sense
to create something like an OpenEJB plugin foundations
infrastructure that would contain common building blocks
that may be re-used by plugins such as the Eclipse
annotation.

That way, if having such a plugin foundation, it would be
possible to create an annotations plugin for example for
IDEA IntelliJ too.

Thoughts?

Cheers
Daniel S. Haischt

Re: [THOUGHTS] OpenEJB Plugin Foundations

[Jeremy Whitlock <jc...@gmail.com>]

>  recently I was thinking about whether it would make sense
>  to create something like an OpenEJB plugin foundations
>  infrastructure that would contain common building blocks
>  that may be re-used by plugins such as the Eclipse
>  annotation.
>
>  That way, if having such a plugin foundation, it would be
>  possible to create an annotations plugin for example for
>  IDEA IntelliJ too.

I love the idea.  It's all to common that people have tunnel vision
and do something for an isolated tool when if done properly, other
similar tools could easily benefit from the efforts.  Since all of the
major IDEs have plug-in support, if we want OpenEJB and it's tools to
be consumed by the masses, it only makes sense to abstract the real
work into a reusable form and then have the implementation code be
tool specific.  I think this is a wonderful idea.  +1

Re: [THOUGHTS] OpenEJB Plugin Foundations

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

I think it's a great idea.  I'd love to see a plugin for Intellij  
specifically as that's what I use and it would likely be exactly what  
I need to get involved in these plugin efforts.

-David

On Apr 14, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Gallimore wrote:

> Great idea. I did think we might eventually look at providing  
> support for other IDEs, so the code that actually works out what  
> annotations to add is pretty well separated from the Eclipse  
> specific stuff. In theory we should be able to create an  
> implementation of IJDTFacade (perhaps this should be renamed - I  
> think JDT implies its Eclipse specific) that manipulates the code in  
> whichever IDE, and add the supporting UI panels, with the code that  
> works out what annotations to generate being common to all the IDEs.
>
> Jon
>
>
> Jacek Laskowski wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Daniel S. Haischt
>> <da...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> Why not. If it helps other people with providing openejb support for
>> other IDEs I'm a big fan of it.
>>
>> Jacek
>>
>>
>

Re: [THOUGHTS] OpenEJB Plugin Foundations

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

Great idea. I did think we might eventually look at providing support 
for other IDEs, so the code that actually works out what annotations to 
add is pretty well separated from the Eclipse specific stuff. In theory 
we should be able to create an implementation of IJDTFacade (perhaps 
this should be renamed - I think JDT implies its Eclipse specific) that 
manipulates the code in whichever IDE, and add the supporting UI panels, 
with the code that works out what annotations to generate being common 
to all the IDEs.

Jon


Jacek Laskowski wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Daniel S. Haischt
> <da...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  Thoughts?
>>     
>
> Why not. If it helps other people with providing openejb support for
> other IDEs I'm a big fan of it.
>
> Jacek
>
>   

Re: [THOUGHTS] OpenEJB Plugin Foundations

[Jacek Laskowski <ja...@laskowski.net.pl>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Daniel S. Haischt
<da...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>  Thoughts?

Why not. If it helps other people with providing openejb support for
other IDEs I'm a big fan of it.

Jacek

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