Re: [jbosstools-dev] [jboss-as7-dev] Modeling Management Objects (was: birth of "console ui" in eclipse)
>> That said, there is a lot of mileage to be gained by simply
being
>> able to use the AutoBean framework within Eclipse. Does anyone
>> have any experience using AutoBeans in an Eclipse or OSGi
>> environment? (In SY land, we're slowly moving to a place where
>> our core management/configuration model API can be used in the
>> tooling as well.)
Oh and this is even worse now I reread it - having *hard coupled*
dependencies to core from eclipse plugins is our biggest problem we
have in Drools, Teiid and Modeshape.
This causes *massive* problems from both user and plugin-dev side
since each release of the plugin extremely easy becomes tied to
specific versions of the runtime.
Does the API allow decoupling ? (i.e. one option is the plugin to
load dynamically the runtime jars from the targeted runtime)
See my previous response. The real problem is the stability of those APIs. No amount of
decoupling allows you to instantly see new features or retract removed features, unless
you're putting together a dynamic GUI, which is then limited in its usability (e.g.
generic JMX consoles, generic WS testers, etc.; they get the job done, they adapt nicely,
but they aren't very pretty).
Best,
Rob