Re: [atf-dev] org.mozilla.xulrunner plugin dependency

[Robert Goodman <goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sergey

The plugin.xml in the org.mozilla.xulrunner
plugins do use an extension point in org.eclipse.atf.mozilla.ide.core.
This extension point registers xulrunner with atf, so that the ATF infrastructure
can set the location of XULRunner in a property that SWT looks for. It
would be possible to remove the dependency and leave the extension point.
A plugin can have an extension point definition without having a dependency
on the plugin that defines the extension point. In your case, I'm not sure
how you would find the location of the XulRunner in the eclipse install.


The org.mozilla.xulrunner plugins were
created before the Mozilla Browser support was added to SWT. For Eclipse
3.2, ATF had a set of fragments that would add the Mozilla browser support
to the SWT component. In Eclipse 3.3, the code was moved out of ATF in
the SWT. One of the things that was not moved, was the extension point
for defining the location of XULRunner contained in a plugin. The SWT added
the system property XULRUNNER_PATH and left it up to the users of XULRunner
to figure out how to set the property. 

At some point there will be enough users
of XULRunner to force the issue with the platform team to come up with
a better solution.  All there has to be is two plugins with different
versions of XULRunner for things not to work. I have submitted a CQ for
packaging XULRunner on eclipse ([IPZilla CQ: 1528] XULRunner Version: 1.8.1.3).
When this is approve, then it may be possible to move XULRunner into the
eclipse Orbit system for third party software with a solution for registering
XULRunner that isn't ATF dependent. 

The ATF team doesn't want to get into
the business of maintaining XULRunner plugins for different groups. It
would be possible for you to drag in the XULRunner plugins/features into
a PDE environment, remove the dependency, change the date on the version,
plugin id, etc and create you own set of plugins. The is no Java source
in the plugins. You would then need to write some code that finds the location
of XULRunner in the eclipse install and set the system property XULRUNNER_PATH
to the location of XULRunner. 

    Thanks
      Bob


Robert Goodman
IBM Emerging Technologies
goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx
512-838-8824    T.L. 678-8824

Sergey Vasilyev <svasilyev@xxxxxxxxxx>
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cc	Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	[atf-dev] org.mozilla.xulrunner plugin dependency

Hello!

Pleased to meet all of you. And I would like to say thank you for your
perfect job.

I'm a member of JBoss Tools group and I'm working for RHDS/JBossTools 
project. We would like to use org.mozilla.xulrunner plugin in our 
project. Because of the fact, I have a question. Is it possible to 
extract the dependency on org.eclipse.atf.mozilla.ide.core plugin from
org.mozilla.xulrunner plugin. Or at least to give resolution "optional"
to this dependency?

Best regards, Sergey.
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