[jbosstools-dev] Some updates on new terminal

[Lars Heinemann]

Hey Rob,

that sounds promising.
I hope I will be able to work on that after JBTIS code freeze at May 20th.

Thanks
Lars


Am 15.05.2015 um 00:06 schrieb Rob Stryker:
> Hi All:
>
> So I've discovered by more code-browsing that the new tm terminal view 
> makes their internal viewer public API. This should easily allow someone 
> like Lars to use the viewer and embed it into their own view.  I havent' 
> yet discovered if their public API is sufficient for Lars to simply call 
> and open a specific connection type in the existing view.
>
> I have learned, however, that o.e.remote does not plan to use their 
> view, but rather will use the viewer itself and create 'consoles' out of 
> it... via IConsoleManager and the associated UI.  You can find their 
> code in git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/ptp/org.eclipse.remote.git   in 
> the bundles/org.eclipse.remote.console/ folder.
>
> I've also opened bugs to ensure that this plugin at least has public API 
> to open a console for a given o.e.remote IRemoteConnection object, which 
> I've just had accepted.
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=467350#add_comment
>
> Either way, whether Lars in the future wants to make his servers 
> exposable via o.e.remote and implement an IRemoteCommandShellService  
> (which I haven't investigated how easy this part is yet, but I suspect 
> its not difficult) or if he wants to simply keep his view but change the 
> implementation to use the new public API viewers inside,  it should work 
> as expected.
>
> There's enough code in existence now that provide PoCs and should make 
> converting his console fairly easy.
>
> It would be really nice if Lars had a Mars branch and TP available, 
> though.  But it seems he won't get that far for quite a while, so I took 
> the lead on making sure API was sufficient.
>
> Does anyone else depend on the terminal situation other than Lars? It'd 
> be great if specific usecases could be laid out for how it's being used 
> right now and what fucntionality is needed in future impls.
>
>
> - Rob Stryker
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