[forge-dev] Forge 2 Eclipse Integration - Update

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Adding Max.


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> We've started working on the Forge 2 Eclipse UI integation - please see
> the latest work here:
>
> https://github.com/forge/forge2-eclipse-ui
>
> Forge is booting and running from Eclipse (currently rigged up through
> "New -> Forge Addon", just so we have an easy way to start the runtime.)
> Forge may then be queried for Addon services via:
>
> forge.getAddonRegistry().getRemoteInstance(MyServiceClass.class);
>
> *Next step:*
>
>
>    - Get UICommand objects working to build Eclipse Wizards, see UI API
>    here:
>
>
>    https://github.com/forge/core/tree/2.0/ui/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/forge/ui
>
>    Addons may depend on the *org.jboss.forge:ui* addon and implement the
>    UICommand interface and UIWizard interfaces to make functionality available
>    to the host environment (like Eclipse or the CLI Shell.) These
>    implementations are then retrieved via the AddonRegistry, as exampled above.
>
>    Set<UICommand.class> commands =
>    forge.getAddonRegistry().getRemoteInstances(UICommand.class);
>
>
> *Questions:*
>
>    1. How should the Forge integration in Eclipse look and feel?
>
>    2. Where should the UI interactions begin? Menu, hotkey, etc? (I
>    personally favor the CTRL-4 shortcut to bring up a forge command selector
>    menu, like what currently is done in JBoss Tools.
>
> That's all for now. This is all a prototype so now is the time to fix
> things if they need to chance. Please send your feedback! We want this to
> work as well as possible so are very open to feedback.
>
> --
> Lincoln Baxter, III
> http://ocpsoft.org
> "Simpler is better."
>



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Lincoln Baxter, III
http://ocpsoft.org
"Simpler is better."
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