Sounds great, Geertjan wrote articles, how to create plugins with JS. JavaScript in JavaFX (Has nothing todo with NetBeans yet): https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/javafx_in_javascript Combining Nashorn Scripting with JavaFX (Has nothing todo with NetBeans yet): https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/combining_nashorn_scripting_with_javafx Extending NetBeans with Nashorn (Yes possible): https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/extending_netbeans_with_nashorn
so with the last article it is possible to extend NetBeans with JS, I tried a bit but I really need to have a view with XML or HTML, because it is a mess and a pain in the ass to write new Button, new Label, new Everything, inside a JS file. So it has to be possible to create View files like MyWindow.xml or MyWindow.html and a js file behind like MyWindow.js and for sure .css too. If this is possible, that would be great. This would be the same as with Electron (http://electron.atom.io) or NativeScript (https://www.nativescript.org/) But we need more info for this. Cheers Chris Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2016 um 14:47 Uhr Von: "Emilian Bold" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Scriptable NetBeans Modules Hello, I think it would be useful to provide a bridge for NetBeans modules done with scripting languages. Javascript is the prime candindate since we have Nashorn at JRE level, but I assume once the hooks are in place more languages will be supported. The way I expect it to work is to use JAR files but in the MANIFEST add OpenIDE-Module-ScriptEngine: nashorn then all class references will be interpreted through the script engine. So, I could have OpenIDE-Module-Install: ro/emilianbold/js/install.js Then in META-INF/services/name.of.Class I could add ro/emilianbold/js/myservice.js For layer .instance file we could have another attribute like <file name="x.instance"> <attr name="instanceScript" stringvalue="ro/emilianbold/js/serviceimpl.js"/> </file> or maybe register the extension and treat .EXT.instance as a script: OpenIDE-Module-ScriptExtension: js <file name="ro-emilianbold-js-serviceimpl.js.instance" /> Were there some prior attempts towards something like this? Does anybody want to help me spec this out and write some prototype? One area that will be sub-optimal is lazy-loading: I believe the module system used reflection to instantiate lazily services. This will not work for scripts as they will have to be loaded and executed. Still, I believe this will be manageable. PS: Also CCing [email protected] --emi
