[jbosstools-dev] Re: [Soa-tools-list] Some thoughts and questions about the esp project wizard

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>>> *4. Integrate with current ESB editor
>>>    *For now, Jboss tools has a editor for jboss-esb.xml, we also can associate the file with the editor
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what this means ?
>>
> you know, JBoss tools has a ESB tree editor, I mean that when the
> project is created and the user want to edit the jboss-esb.xml config
> file, we can
> open the file using the ESB editor .

...but that is already done by default, so no work needed ;)

>>> *5. Sample content(Template):*
>>>    Provide a extension point for it. the extension has the following
>>> properties at least :
>>>
>>>      * esb version:  the templates will be filtered by the version of the esb facet of the project.
>>>
>>>      * description : when user select a template, on the wizard page, show
>>>        the description to the user.
>>>
>>>      * template: the template should be the main stuff of this extension
>>>        point, we should determine the format of the template, since it may contain some source
>>>        code and other artifacts such as some ESB config files, so the template may be  an archive file such as a jar
>>>        file or some other sort of it.
>>>      * template install class: to handle some additional operations that template providers want.
>>>
>>
>> All sounds good - but I'm interested in getting the above issues done first so we get something usable for deployment upfront.
>>
> John suggested to quickly develop a prototype of the wizard at  first, I
> think it may be worked out next week and then start to code base on it.

ok, so you will be using the WTP wizard framework and module types?

/max