Re: [dash-dev] Groovy Monkey Plugin

[Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool!  Hey, the best way to include the code is to open a bug in 
bugzilla and attach a patch file. The Eclipse IP rules do not allow us 
to accept code via email, but if you open a bug then we can grab it and 
apply it and release a new Monkey version in mere minutes (well, not 
today because CVS seems to be down today, but tomorrow!)

James E. Ervin wrote:
> 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.