Hi Dianel and Angelo, Thanks for the information. Yes, Eclipse Che uses LSP4J and I'm interested in that, but I'm more interested in supporting frameworks and IDE-s. I've gone through the provided link regarding FM3 but still, there are lot things which I don't understand properly. You have mentioned that Woonsan Ko has already implemented a lot of Spring integration. I would love to take a look at his code so we can figure out what should/can be improved.
At the moment, I haven't decided on what I want to do in this project. Still, I'm trying to understand how can I be a help to FM, so I'm open to any suggestion. I've gone through the issue[1] created by Angelo and I would love to know the opinion of others as well. My personal preference is to go with the first solution which is to "Create a custom parser". [1] https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver/issues/1 Regards, *Randika Navagamuwa,* *Software Engineer,* *AdroitLogic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.* *www.rnavagamuwa.com <http://www.rnavagamuwa.com>* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnavagamuwa/> [image: https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa] <https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa> <https://twitter.com/rnavagamuwa> [image: https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/] <https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/> <http://github.com/rnavagamuwa> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Angelo zerr <angelo.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Randika, > > If you are interested to work on the Freemarker Language Server > https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver, it should be > really fantastic. > > Today I have just managed to support validation (publishDiagnostics), but > for advanced features like completion, outline, etc we must have the > capability to have a Freemarker AST even if the content of ftl is not > valid. > > I have created an issue for that > https://github.com/angelozerr/freemarker-languageserver/issues/1 Don't > hesitate to add your comment. Thanks! > > Hope you could be interested. > > Regard's Angelo > > 2018-03-17 16:57 GMT+01:00 Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org>: > > > Saturday, March 17, 2018, 1:34:11 PM, Randika Navagamuwa wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm from Sri Lanka and currently, I'm working as a Senior > > Software > > > Engineer at AdroitLogic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd [1]. During my undergraduate > > > period, I've contributed to some open source projects including Eclipse > > Che > > > [2]. > > > > Speaking of Eclipse... we had a bit of a problem with the old Eclipse > > editor plugin (at JBoss Tools), which it sparked this new one using > > LSP4J (also used by Che AFAIK; not sure how syntax highlighting parts > > works there): https://github.com/angelozerr/lsp4e-freemarker > > > > If you are interested in that, let me know. > > > > > For some time I couldn't actively participate in any open source > > > projects and I thought of getting back to it. > > > > > > After going through some Apache projects I found Free Marker > > > really interesting. I'm interested in taking part in "*FreeMarker > Spring > > > MVC integration. > > > > > > Please let me know how to contribute to this. > > > > So first of all, glad to hear that you are interested. We need that a > > lot, especially when it comes to supporting frameworks and IDE-s. > > > > Now, there are two main development branches: > > > > - FreeMarker 2: This is the one that's actually used in production, > > for 15 years or so. Be prepared for remnants of 2000-s cowboy > > coding <-;, and complications and restrictions for keeping backward > > compatibility. > > > > The Spring support was made very long ago by someone who, I don't > > remember ever talked to the FM developers (I was already around in > > that times). My brief interactions with it has shown that it's not > > very good, and it's quite abandoned. Now, the main problem is that > > it's at Spring, not here. So I'm not sure if writing patches to them > > is the better, or starting over here. Though I'm certain that the > > last is much more fun, and you have more freedom to figure out the > > best approach to bring FM2 features and Spring together. (OTOH that > > will lead to FM support being removed from Spring, which is quite a > > loss in visibility... but we go for what's best technically.) > > > > If you need new FM features during that (and certainly you will, if > > you are creative about it), I can do that if you find the FM2 > > internals scary (which would be understandable). > > > > - FreeMarker 3: You can read about it here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FREEMARKER/FreeMarker+3 > > So it's much more rewarding to work with, except that nobody uses it > > yet... Furthermore, Woonsan Ko (a PPMC member here) has implemented > > a lot of the Spring integration already, as you will find. I know > > there are parts missing, even trickier parts (like i10n messages > > that are outputFormat aware). Not sure if he wants them for himself > > (after all, those are the fun parts), or if he needs help elsewhere. > > Woonsan? > > > > Also, generating e-mail in Spring seems to become more and more > > important compared to generating web pages. Just in case you are > > interested in polishing that application as well. But really, find the > > a part that you think you will enjoy. > > > > > Someone who know both well should keep an eye on this, > > > improving it where necessary.*" which I found here [3] under "*Improve > > > framework integration*". > > > > > > [1] https://www.adroitlogic.com/ > > > [2] https://www.eclipse.org/che/ > > > [3] https://freemarker.apache.org/contribute.html > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > *Randika Navagamuwa,* > > > > > > *Senior Software Engineer,* > > > *AdroitLogic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.* > > > *www.rnavagamuwa.com <http://www.rnavagamuwa.com>* > > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnavagamuwa/> [image: > > > https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa] > > > <https://www.facebook.com/rnavagamuwa> > > > <https://twitter.com/rnavagamuwa> [image: > > > https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/] > > > <https://plus.google.com/+RandikaNavagamuwa/> > > > <http://github.com/rnavagamuwa> > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Daniel Dekany > > > > >
