Re: [dali-dev] New plugins

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxx>]

sounds cool; i'll keep an eye out for them.

let me know when you think i can start trying out those extension points.

/max


> Hi Max,
>
> We recently started the new org.eclipse.jst.jpa plugins to have a small  
> environment to try out xml, java, a merge view of the two, and our  
> possible extension points.  We are trying to use our own extension  
> points with extensions in separate plugins to test that things will work  
> when other projects extend us.  We're also plugging into facets and  
> using the wtp translators for the reading/writing the orm.xml. Once we  
> feel comfortable with the extension story and how the model is working,  
> we will roll in all the annotation functionality from the .5 release and  
> expand the orm.xml functionality.
>
> The goal of all this is to help flesh out our extension story and to  
> have a clean emf model. I would think in the next few weeks/months you  
> would be able to start trying things out even if we don't yet have all  
> the annotation functionality of our .5 release. We will want to support  
> both of the extension points you mention.
>
> Karen
>
> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
> > Hi gal,
> >
> > Interesting - is this also the extension points I should look into
> > if i wanted to
> >
> > a) provide extra annotations (for e.g hibernate specific ones)
> >
> > b) provide support for alternative formats ?
> >
> > or am i just still dreaming here ;)
> >
> > /max
> >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I have split up our jst.jpa plugins into a few new ones and committed
> > > them to cvs.  Here is the list of core plugins with the new plugins *'d
> > >
> > > org.eclipse.jst.jpa.core
> > > org.eclipse.jst.jpa.core.java*
> > > org.eclipse.jst.jpa.core.mappings
> > > org.eclipse.jst.jpa.core.mappings.java*
> > > org.eclipse.jst.jpa.core.xml*
> > >
> > >
> > > Brief description of these plugins:
> > >
> > >     * The core plugin defines an extension point for   
> > > persistenceFileContent
> > >     * The core.java plugin extends persistenceFileContent for java  
> > > files
> > >     * The core.xml plugin extends persistenceFileContent for xml files
> > >       (need to make this based on the orm.xsd content type)
> > >
> > >     * The core.java plugin define and extension point for the
> > >       persistentTypeMapping
> > >     * The core.mappings.java plugin extends persistentTypeMapping for
> > >       Entity(will also do this for MappedSuperclass and Embeddable
> > >       eventually
> > >     * There is no core.mappings.xml plugin because we will not provide
> > >       extension points for new PersistentTypeMapping in xml.
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