Re: [dash-dev] Groovy Monkey Plugin

["James E. Ervin" <jervin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently refactored the code that I modified so that Eclipse Monkey 
looks for a set of extensions called org.eclipse.eclipseMonkey.lang.  I 
added two fragments, one for groovy, the other for beanshell.  They 
both seem to work pretty well.  I added a metadata tag called LANG for 
the obvious reason to denote which language the script applies ( 
Javascript being the default ).  In fact I suppose there is no reason 
to not add any number of scripting languages, as long as they are 
native to the jvm, allow some sort of binding and can evaluate text on 
the fly so to speak.

I want to add a metadata tag for the execution mode of the script.  I 
think it would be a good idea to be able to have the script run as an 
independent job either in the UI Thread or not and allow the script to 
receive a progress monitor to allow it to respond to cancellations and 
the like.

I also think it would be a good idea to have an outline view that could 
show the user what DOMs are available with their urls, variable names 
and show reflectively what the class type is that it represents.

I would love to share some of this code with anyone who would like.  
Just need to know where to place it.

Thanks,
James E. Ervin
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