[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16375) Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Early Access" stuff

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-16375:
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{quote}Can we make the yellow a bit more subtle? Instead of the bright yellow SWT.COLOR_YELLOW (which I assume is http://www.colorpicker.com/FFFF00 ) can we go with something like http://www.colorpicker.com/FFFF88 ? Or since orange is a more traditional (and legible) "warning" colour than yellow, how about http://www.colorpicker.com/FFCC88 ?{quote}
I'll take that into account in a next commit.

{quote}What changes (if any) did you do to the jbosstools-discovery project?{quote}
I've tried 2 ways, both work:
# Extend a plugin.xml with some early access connectors
# Create a new discovery jar defining only early-access components and add it to a directory.xml. I've just push an example of it, see https://github.com/mickaelistria/jbosstools-discovery/compare/JBIDE-16375-sandbox

For 2, here is what the directory.xml I use looks like
{code}
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<directory xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/discovery/directory/">
  <entry url="file:/home/mistria/git/jbosstools-discovery/jbdevstudio/com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery/target/com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery-8.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" permitCategories="true"/>
  <entry url="file:/home/mistria/git/jbosstools-discovery/jbdevstudio/com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery.earlyaccess/target/com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery.earlyaccess-8.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" permitCategories="true"/>
</directory>
{code}
                
> Allow to extend Central extensions catalog with "Early Access" stuff
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-16375
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16375
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: central, discovery
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta2
>
>
> In order to make it easier for people to consume some "Beta" extensions from JBT or JBDS release (such as installing a Beta of JBT-IS on top of a JBT release), it would make sense to have Central allow users to select some catalogs in a UI entry such as "Include Experimental stuff" to show additional catalog entries.
> Either this could be a single catalog with the experimental content being annotated, or it could be 2 (or more catalogs) which have different quality levels.
> The Central UI will need to give feedback on the quality level for a given entry ("supported" or "experimental" or ...).

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