Writing Eclipse plugins in Clojure is very interesting is a long term goal. In order to pull that off, I would need to extend/implement Eclipse platform classes and interfaces in Clojure, and export these classes in an Eclipse plugin, which is an OSGi bundle.
Scala rewrote their Eclipse plugin in Scala at a certain point -- but Scala is easier as it compiles to *.class files. Clojure will be more challenging as I'll need to hook up clojure.lang.Compiler to the classloader directly, and expose dynamically compiled bytecode. However, the potential could be huge. Not only could Clojure be used for Eclipse PDE development, but Clojure-OSGi bundles would interoperate with other OSGi solutions (Glassfish, Apache ServiceMix, etc.). OSGi would give Clojure apps some nice deployment options and a new devious way to sneak Clojure into the enterprise :) In the meantime, I'm ok with developing in Java now with the possibility of rewriting in Clojure later. This ugly Java code will at least serve as a blueprint for what's to come. Casey On Oct 14, 10:00 am, JumpingJupiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I humbly present my first steps toward an Clojure Eclipse plugin > > (http://code.google.com/p/clojure-dev/). > > It seems your writing your plug-in in java. I don't know anything > about Eclipse plug-ins; it should be possible (maybe not desirable) to > write the plug-in in clojure right? what are your reasons for using > java? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
