[jbosstools-dev] Configure the Visual Page Editor palette in JBoss Tools

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 25 Feb 2015, at 13:09, Gayard, Leonel wrote:

>> Be warned that the palette and visual jsf editing is being phased 
>> out/deprecated since it relies on xulrunner which are no longer 
>> portable/available in a stable form.
>
> In this case, are there plans to replace xulrunner ? What are the 
> candidates for replacement ?

There is none that been shown to be feasible.

The experiments we've done by using javascript to communicate with 
IE/webkit all either
given to bad a performance or required a complete rewrite of all the JSF 
template handling code.

To be clear, all the source editing, palette dnd etc. will still be 
there - it is just the visual part
that we will deprecate and eventually remove.

We focused on getting good HTML5 preview support instead - html5 have 
the advantage of not requiring
custom template code to be previewed.

/max

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Rydahl Andersen [mailto:manderse at redhat.com]
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> To: Gayard, Leonel
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> Subject: Re: [jbosstools-dev] Configure the Visual Page Editor palette 
> in JBoss Tools
>
>
> Be warned that the palette and visual jsf editing is being phased 
> out/deprecated since it relies on xulrunner which are no longer 
> portable/available in a stable form.
>
> /max
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am investigating the internal code in JBoss Tools, in particular,
>> the pieces that fill up the Palette view.
>> I have checked out the source code of the plugins, but I am having a
>> hard time finding out how the Palette view is filled with the
>> different options. For instance, when running an Eclipse instance 
>> with
>> JBoss Tools, I can see the palette view is filled with the same
>> options expected from the manual page at [1]
>>
>> But I'm having a hard time to find in the source code how the data to
>> fill this tree of categories is found.
>>
>> I have traced the code, and I see that the categories are fetched as
>> an XModel / Preference Model [2]. So, if the palette view shows the
>> categories HTML, JBoss, JSF, Oracle ADF and others, I would expect to
>> find an XML or Properties file that described those.
>>
>> Can someone give me any pointers on how the current code finds those
>> categories ?
>>
>> Another question is, I'm currently checking if we can extend the
>> plugin to add new categories and items in the Palette; can you give 
>> me
>> some hint on how to approach this task ?
>>
>>
>> [1]: 
>> https://docs.jboss.org/tools/4.0.1.Final/en/jsf/html/palette.html
>> [2]:
>> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-base/blob/jbosstools-4.0.0.Fi
>> nal/common/plugins/org.jboss.tools.common.model/src/org/jboss/tools/co
>> mmon/model/options/PreferenceModelUtilities.java#L64
>>
>> Leonel Gayard
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