[jbosstools-dev] Moving parts of JBT to WebTools

[Alexey Kazakov]

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On 10/25/2016 08:33 AM, Alexey Kazakov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, in general, I think it would make sense to move upstream 
> JBossTools parts which are not Red Hat specific. But technically it's 
> not so easy. For example our HTML editor uses a lot of shared code 
> from base/common and jst components. Validation, navigation, Palette, 
> etc. All these are our internal JBossTools frameworks which we havily 
> use in different JBossTools components. So we can't just move HTML 
> editor to Eclipse without moving a lot of common JBossTools code. In 
> the past we actually discussed if we can move some our stuff like 
> JavaEE stuff to Eclipse but faced the same issues.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 10/25/2016 04:50 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There are some stable parts of JBoss Tools, such as some extension to 
>> HTML editors (and family), that would make sense to be upstream in 
>> Eclipse WebTools.
>> The benefits would be:
>> * Better Eclipse IDE, happier and more numerous users
>> * Move maintenance to a public and shared location where we may be 
>> able to get more people to help
>> * This might even reduce a bit our releng effort if some 
>> bundles/component fully move upstream.
>>
>> I don't think this would have a negative impact on JBoss Tools. 
>> Indeed, I imagine users of JBoss Tools install it for WildFly, 
>> OpenShift, Hibernate or whatever JBoss/Red Hat technology support; 
>> not for things such as HTML edition.
>>
>> Would that be doable for the Oxygen target? What features could 
>> relatively easily go upstream?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- 
>> Mickael Istria
>> Eclipse developer for Red Hat Developers <http://developers.redhat.com>
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