[jbosstools-dev] introduction of org.jboss.tools.foundation

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Hi,

Rob S. had the challenge that our extraction of stacks (used for handling download of runtimes and maven archetypes as defined in JDF/JBoss Way)
made it require common which because of its own internal dependencies have become a very big mixed bag which after several attempts have not been
reduced (at least not significantly). Main problem been that core/common had hard requirements on WTP, not just base Eclipse.

To fix/help on this issue of the common not really being common we've created org.jboss.tools.foundation (see https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-14363)

Rob S. pushed this into base last night so it is in JBoss Tools 4.1 and in upcoming versions of JBT we can add *real core* functionallities to this foundation library.

For now it just contains the BasePlugins with logging and the class that kept being recreated File download via ECF.

This foundation now got tests, public API's and is intended to be destination for actual common parts - stuff that has no big dependencies but we all
keep reinventing/reimplementing.

As with anything if you want something added/moved to this then open jira/PR - over time we'll write up guidelines, limits and test requirements; but 
for 4.1 we needed this to get a place central, examples, stacks, server and arquillian can use *without* requiring big parts of xmodel and WTP. 

Note: if you see problems caused by this introduction please open jira and link to JBIDE-14363 and assign to Rob Stryker.

Thanks,
/max