Hi Konstantin, This project looks very interesting. I think many are waiting for such a solution that will eliminate the need to provide "Add XXX Nature/Support" action. Thank you for the notification, we will look into this framework deeply!
2008/11/1 Konstantin Komissarchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PDT Team, > > > > Some of you may have noticed the project declaration e-mail for the Faceted > Project Framework. I'd like to take a few moments to explicitly reach out to > the PDT community in order to explore adoption possibilities. > > > > So what is Faceted Project Framework? It is a technology that was developed > in Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project to make it easier for third > parties building tools on top of WTP to extend WTP projects. For those > familiar with project natures, facets can be thought of as natures that > users can easily add and remove via provided UI. Prior to creation of this > framework, third parties that extended WTP often created custom project > wizards or "Enable function X" actions. The framework significantly reduced > the amount of work that was necessary in order to extend WTP projects and > improved user experience by providing common way for managing project > extensions. > > > > So what does this have to do with PDT? Well, the goal for creating the > independent Faceted Project Framework project is to encourage broader > adoption by making it easier and more natural for other parties to consume > this technology. Is there any interest on the part of the PDT team to > investigate adopting this technology in order to make it easier for people > to build on top of PDT? I am hoping that I can interest several projects to > get involved early on in order to validate the generality of API and to make > sure that use cases that have not come up in the context of WTP are > addressed. > > > > You can get a pretty good overview of the framework by scanning through the > referenced tutorial. > > > > Project Proposal: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/fproj/ > > Newsgroup: http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.fproj > > Tutorial: > http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-BuildingProjectFacets/tutorial.html > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > > - Konstantin > > > > > > Konstantin Komissarchik | Consulting Member of Technical Staff > Phone: +1 425 201 1795 | Mobile: +1 206 898 0611 > Oracle Eclipse Tooling > 411 108th Ave NE, Suite 2100 | Bellevue, WA 98004 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pdt-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev > > -- Michael _______________________________________________ pdt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev
