[jbosstools-dev] Handy Plugin - debug another eclipse

[Rob Stryker]

Hi all... 

So this past week when I was running 4 different eclipses at once to 
determine the differences between wtp 2.0.1 and wtp 2.0.2 in deploying 
nested archives (the seam bug), I developed a quick plugin to be able to 
add one eclipse's source to source lookup.

The reason I made this is because the current source-lookup options were 
absolute crap. Adding a folder is designated for a folder of solely 
source files. Adding an archive or external archive is the same. There 
was no option to search through a nested folder for all source files.   
And when running in one eclipse and debugging the *same instance*, you 
could of course use the project which allows you to search all plugins.

This becomes most useful when using one eclipse to debug an *older* (or 
newer) version with completely different source. That's basically the 
use case. Marshall says he's used it a few times already.

I added it to svn:
jbosstools/trunk/labs/plugins/org.jboss.tools.labs.pde.sourceprovider

There's no binary in svn yet and it's a little rudimentary =P  It 
basically just searches a root folder (the eclipse installation) for any 
zip file that ends in "src.zip".  Then it delegates to a bunch of 
regular external archive source containers for those individual paths.

Future enhancements if I get annoyed enough may be to allow you to add 
any ant-type pattern matching.  Suggestions are welcome.

Again, I found it to be very very handy and Marshall says he's used it 
as well.

- Rob Stryker