[e4-dev] Self introduction ... Scala and Eclipse

[Miles Sabin <miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm the maintainer of the Scala Eclipse plugin,

  http://www.scala-lang.org/node/94

and this is a quick note of encouragement from me on the
multi-language support front.

One thing I'd like to emphasize is that there is a subset of JVM
languages which are strongly "Java-compatible", Scala being one such,
AspectJ being another, and which significantly benefit from their
support for mixed language (eg. Scala+Java source) projects. In an
Eclipse context that clearly means that support for projects which
blend the JDT with one or more JVM languages is highly desirable.

I've been working with Andrew Eisenberg of AJDT to make this happen
for Scala via Equinox Aspects. This is working out really well, but it
would be preferable if we could come up with some more direct and
officially supported mechanism for extending the JDT.

Looking forward to working with you all ...

Cheers,


Miles

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