This looks actually really nice.. Does anybody has more resources on this
flax/flash + JET?
On 8/7/08 12:21 PM, "Johannes Nel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also, does anyone else use emf for modeling and has anyone tied this up to
> custom jet templates?
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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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