[jbosstools-dev] Brainstorming: Target Platform for developers too

[Mickael Istria]

Hi all,

As you may know, we leverage Target Platform (TP) at build-time to set 
up a build path. A TP is basically a list of dependencies we allow for 
build to perform. TP are also usable at dev-time in PDE and guarantees 
what you can depend on when you write a plugin. For example, if you 
depend on something that is not part of your TP, you'll see some errors 
for unresolved bundles.

The next step for this Target Platforms would the *you, developers, use 
these target platforms in PDE*. Then we would all ensure we depend on 
the same stuff at dev-time and build-time, and it would prevent some 
synchronization errors between what you require, and what the TP contain.
You can use TP by importing them into your workspace (checkout 
build/target-platform folder), and then enable them with Window > 
Preferences > Plugin Development > Target Platform. We already 
identified some pitfalls with current TP, but we'll work on making them 
more usable for developers. Please report your ideas in JIRA on how to 
improve target platforms so that you could use them too. Here are some 
first ideas, please contribute to these ideas and raise new ones.
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11688
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11690

Thanks,
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
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