My responses below...
Definitely beats waiting for when I can get back to this part of things!
No problem. I've wanted to try my hand at an eclipse plugin for a while now. This was an opportunity to fill an immediate need while scratching my itch to write an Eclipse plugin.
I don't know that what you're describing is really going to work, though. The problem is that if you only invoke it when you're doing a full build users are going to have to remember to do that each time they change one of the files touched by the binding. This doesn't seem to offer much of an advantage over the ant build-binding.xml approach I mentioned.
Yes and no. Only invoking the builder on a full build is not the ideal solution but I believe the eclipse plugin is more suited for our project than the build.xml. We use Maven as our build tool. Our classpath is defined through Maven dependency elements (in Maven's 'project.xml'). The 'project.xml' is also used to generate the Eclipse .classpath. Having to define the classpath yet again in a build.xml is not an attractive option in our situation.
Running it on every incremental build wouldn't be much better - that'd really slow down Eclipse's processing.
The plugin really needs to track the classes effected by the binding and only invoke the binding compiler when one of those classes is changed (or on a clean build). This would be difficult to do now, but for beta 4 I've got a binding definition object model that loads all the relevant class information. I'll probably be possible to use that to get a class list. If you keep this in mind as something that needs to be handled I'll figure a way to give you the class list.
Yes. Just what I was thinking.
If you want to contribute I need your agreement mailed or faxed, as discussed at http://jibx.sourceforge.net/contributing.html Then I'll be able to add you to the project as a developer. Thanks for taking this forward!
- Dennis
No problem. I'll fax the agreement on Monday.
Thanks,
Norm
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