RES: [dsdp-mtj-dev] Extension point for defining devices

["Paula Gustavo-WGP010" <wgp010@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi danail,

Thanks for your interested on mtj!

Let me see if i understand your correctly your suggestion.
1- mtj will have a declarative way to describe an sdk / devices
2- this declarative way would be published via an extension point
3- each sdk provider (like nokia, mot or rim) would have a plugin that
implements the EP and describe its sdk. The whole sdk also need to be
provided as a set of plugins / binaries
4- the user would just use p2 to find / install / update sdks on his
eclipse
5- mtj would automatically find the installed sdks via the EP

If that's what you mean, I think that it is great idea. But probably it
is hard to make it happen. The main issue that I see is that this would
require all sdk providers to change their sdk distribution mechanism. So
instead of RIM providing a windows installer they would need to provide
a p2 repository. This is a high impact on all providers and I don't know
if they want to do that. if they don't them mtj would not be able to
support that specific sdk. What I like in the current device importer
solution, which was inherited completely from eclipseme, is that it is
really flexible. Mtj can support any sdk once the importer / editor are
implemented. So we don't' force anything on the sdk side. There are
still some improvements that we can do on this area.

Maybe we can talk about proposing that, but we would still need to
support the current solution to be compatible with the sdks that are
already available.

Any thoughts?

:)
gep


-----Mensagem original-----
De: dsdp-mtj-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:dsdp-mtj-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Em nome de Danail Nachev
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2009 13:07
Para: dsdp-mtj-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Assunto: [dsdp-mtj-dev] Extension point for defining devices

Hi guys,

First, I want to say that the work you are doing with MTJ has been long
awaited and MTJ will nicely complement the existing Eclipse tools
covering large portion of the software development.

So, straight to the point:

I couldn't find a way for a plugin to define new devices. There is a way
to define importer, which can be used to detect new types of SDKs and
there is an API, which can be called to add new devices to the registry,
but there is no way for a plugin to state:

I'm a SDK for this and this device.

If a plugin can declaratively specify new devices:

* p2 can be used for Java ME SDK installation/update
* a vendor-specific IDE/extension can easily define the supported
devices (w/o complex code)

What do you think?

BR,
-- 
Danail Nachev
Senior Software Engineer/Development Tools
ProSyst Labs EOOD
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