Re: [birt-pmc] Plug In Wizards for BIRT

[Scott Rosenbaum <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wenfeng,

I have not looked at any of the other projects, mostly I have looked at 
the templates that ship with the PDT.

Hello, World
Plug-in with a incremental project builder
Plug-in with a multi-page editor
Plug-in with an editor
Plug-in with a popup menu
Plug-in with a property page
Plug-in with a view

Now what I was thinking is that wouldn't it be cool if we had options like:

BIRT ODA Data Source - which could stub out the DataSource and DataSet
BIRT ODA Data Source UI - which would stub out the DataSetUi and the 
DataSourceUI
BIRT ReportItem - which would stub out the reportItemUI, 
reportItemModel, and reportItemPresentation
BIRT

Clearly we can not figure out all of the user modes that may come up, 
but we should be able to focus on the most significant items.  I think 
that if we could significantly reduce the barrier to entry for many 
developers. 

It just seems like there are a number of items that are fairly standard, 
that we could automate through templates. 

Scott

Wenfeng Li wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Is there any good examples from other projects we can look into?  There are many extension points in the platform and tools project, I wonder if there is any wizard that helps creates plugin extensions in those project...
>
> Wenfeng
>
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> Subject: [birt-pmc] Plug In Wizards for BIRT
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>
> All,
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to build plug-in wizards that sit on top 
> of the most common BIRT extension points, or at least on top of the ones 
> that we think will be used extensively.  The ones that I think would 
> really make sense would be:
>
> - ODA Plugin wizard
> - ODA UI Plugin Wizard
> - ReportItem Plugin Wizard
>
> I have not really got into the extension of the Chart Extension Points 
> yet, but it would seem another likely place for extension. 
>
> The goal of the Plugin wizard would not be to fully functional code but 
> to create the basics of a PDE project that has most of the required 
> extensions, and scaffolding built. 
>
> I do know how much work is involved here, but I really think that it 
> would improve the usability of BIRT.  I think that a number of the 
> people that will want to extend BIRT will not have experience doing 
> plugin development, so if we can at least get them started, it will 
> significantly reduce their learning curve.
>
> Scott
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