[cme-dev] lock on org.eclipse.cme repository released

[Stan Sutton <suttons@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I have finished checking in changes
and release whatever lock I might have been considered to hold on the CME
repository.

A summary of the new features is appended
at the end of this message.  The referenced documentation can be found
in the respective projects or accessed through What's New on the CME homepage
on eclipse.org (http://www.eclipse.org/cme/).

If there are any questions, comments,
or problems, please let us know!

Thanks,

Stan


Stan Sutton, Ph. D.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
telephone:  1-914-784-7316, FAX:  1-914-784-7455, T/L 863
e-mail:  suttons@xxxxxxxxxx, Stan Sutton/Watson/IBM@IBMUS


What's new:

A new extension point is introduced for ConMan loaders.
The extension point is defined as part of the CME plug-in (org.eclipse.cme)
and is used in the user interface. A new version of the user interface
(org.eclipse.cme.ui) is
available that makes use of this extension point to identify loaders that
run when the concern space is built in the Concern Explorer view. The extensibility
of the UI with respect to ConMan loaders is documented in Configuring
Conman Loaders. (The original version of the
UI is available still under the outdated
folder.)

A new project conman.loaders.framework has been created under the components folder. As the name suggests, this project defines a framework for constructing ConMan loaders. Several loaders that have been defined using the framework are included, including an updated version of the original ConMan loader, loaders that build concern models based on the Eclipse JDT and Core resource models, a loader that builds a concern model of an Eclipse workspace based on the CIT (Concern Informant Toolkit) type model, and a loader that builds a concern model of the workspace simply as directories and files based on java.io.file. The framework is documented in A Framework for ConMan Loaders.

Another new project conman.loaders.cosmos has been created under the components folder. This project contains a loader that builds a ConMan model that represents the Cosmos concern-modeling schema. This loader is documented in The Cosmos ConMan Loader.

There have also been substantial improvements in the xml-based persistence mechanism that is used by the Concern Explorer in the user interface.

Along with these updates a number of patches have been installed that were contributed by Eugen Nistor, many related to improved support for recording source line numbers and other attributes in the concern model.