Hi All
Don't know who uses JET but I would like to outline how I have been using it
and asking people how they use it after that.
At the moment what i do
1. Convert my project to a JET project
2. Set my JET source path = my plugin.src
thus when i create my jet template, i get the template.java in my source
path, which I then invoke via
SlideViewPresentationModel emitter = new
SlideViewPresentationModel();
String result = emitter.generate(sv);
where sv is a custom model of the type SlideView.
My reason behind this was that I had so many problems using dynamic
templates which i would invoke
ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
JETEmitter emitter = new JETEmitter(uri,loader);
emitter.addVariable("Slide", pluginId);
String result = emitter.generate(monitor,new Object[]{sv});
not only due to the dynamic models which I use (solved via the custom
classLoader) but also templates which would then output the template.java to
my eclipse workspace .JETEmitter project and cannot be compiled from there
(event though I had all the necesary variables). Its not that it did not
work, but it only worked once (when the template is compiled and you create
the new emitter it cannot override existing files!) and at other times
pretty infrequently when i played around with settings.
So the bad part of this is that I cannot update templates on the fly without
updating the plugin, i can also not thus have a user output a template from
the plugin - one level of abstraction too many anyway IMO.
So how do other people use Jet in their plugins?
Also swt sucks, big time, so slow to develop. I am considering using a
socket to just speak to a flex app. I have concerns around the plugin
activator livecycle and a socket, but need to do more research on this, any
thoughts?
Also has anyone polled the flex builder api for information and if so, can
they give me a heads up around performance, my first touches on inspecting
the availible object model went badly (you always get the whole object tree,
no way to filter that I could figure out first off).
As you can see I am a noob with plugin development and on top of that do not
consider myself very good at java.
I would like to get people who have been down some of these roads before to
tell me what has worked and what not ideally.
johan
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