[jbosstools-dev] Moving parts of JBT to WebTools

[Alexey Kazakov]

Hi,

Yes, in general, I think it would make sense to move upstream JBossTools 
parts which are not Red Hat specific. But technically it's not so easy. 
For example our HTML editor uses a lot of shared code from base/common 
and jst components. Validation, navigation, Palette, etc. All these are 
our internal JBossTools frameworks which we havily use in different 
JBossTools components. So we can't just move HTML editor to Eclipse 
without moving a lot of common JBossTools code. In the past we actually 
discussed if we can move some our stuff like JavaEE stuff to Eclipse but 
faced the same issues.

Thanks.


On 10/25/2016 04:50 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There are some stable parts of JBoss Tools, such as some extension to 
> HTML editors (and family), that would make sense to be upstream in 
> Eclipse WebTools.
> The benefits would be:
> * Better Eclipse IDE, happier and more numerous users
> * Move maintenance to a public and shared location where we may be 
> able to get more people to help
> * This might even reduce a bit our releng effort if some 
> bundles/component fully move upstream.
>
> I don't think this would have a negative impact on JBoss Tools. 
> Indeed, I imagine users of JBoss Tools install it for WildFly, 
> OpenShift, Hibernate or whatever JBoss/Red Hat technology support; not 
> for things such as HTML edition.
>
> Would that be doable for the Oxygen target? What features could 
> relatively easily go upstream?
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Mickael Istria
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