GMF is being used for new graphical ESB editor.
/sumedha

On 1/9/12, Samisa Abeysinghe <sam...@wso2.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Chathuri Wimalasena
> <chath...@wso2.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> For CS 2.0.0, we need to have Eclipse GMF related bundles installed in to
>> the Eclipse instance that is running.
>
>
> Why?
>
> What is GMF used for?
>
> If not everything in CS uses GMF, why chip 40/50+ by default?
>
>
>
>
>> At the moment what we do is, ask users to do an online installation of CS
>> 2.0.0, so all the needed bundles will be downloaded and installed. This
>> online installation takes sometime, if the internet connection of the user
>> is not strong enough. A jira [1] is also being reported. As another option
>> what we can do is add all the GMF related bundles inside CS 2.0.0
>> distribution which will allow users to install CS in very short period.
>> But
>> this has some drawbacks such as
>>
>>    - Distribution will be increased by 40-50MB of size
>>    - Needed plugin list is huge (near 115 bundles) and all those bundles
>>    should be added to the pom and maven repo
>>    - Once we do that, we stick to  a specific version of those plugins.
>>    But if we allow online installation, it will always download the latest
>>    versions from the repos
>>
>> We are planning to give two distributions as online installation (which
>> will be less in size, but take some time to install) and offline
>> installation (which will be extra 40-50MB in size, but take very small
>> time
>> to install). WDYT ?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Chathuri
>>
>> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/TOOLS-878
>>
>> --
>> Chathuri Wimalasena
>> Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
>> email: chath...@wso2.com; phone: +94 772 608 596
>> blog: http://chathuriwimalasena.blogspot.com/
>>
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>> Thanks,
> Samisa...
>
> Samisa Abeysinghe
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