| Re: [e4-dev] JavaScript Server |
Simon Kaegi and I will (hopefully!) have some time on Thursday/Friday for this. Based on the work Simon has done so far (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/_javascript_ ), we would like to port our Bespin server from Java to _javascript_. We will only be porting the little glue code we have in our servlets, the code that will then call Eclipse APIs for the actual work.
As for generic listeners that can be added to Eclipse objects, I am afraid that we don't have anything "real" at that level. Part of our "Eclipse IDE in a browser" demo from a year ago was an idea of having such a generic API, with change notifications being pushed to a client through a long-polling HTTP connection. The code is still in CVS, use the attached psf file to load it into an empty workspace (Import > Team > Team Project Set ), start a new inner Eclipse, and then use Firefox to open: http://localhost:8000/e4/files/workbench.html. (The inner Eclipse will serve up that page for you.) Create some projects in the inner Eclipse and have a look at Firebug to see how changes get pushed to the web client. Note that this was all hacked together for a demo...
Not sure if this helps you at all - please ping me on IRC for more details.
Boris
(See attached file: browserDemo.psf)
Christoph Dorn wrote on 03/01/2009 05:13:54 PM:
>
> During the conference call someone (I did not catch a name - too much
> info - you guys all know your stuff too well :) ) mentioned something
> about a _javascript_ server. I was wondering where I can learn more about
> what is planned and track progress.
>
> I am looking for a way to attach "listeners" to eclipse objects in a
> generic way so I can expose events via a "server" that I can access
> externally via some protocol. Is that what the JS server is intended for?
>
> I would like to be able to do something like the following:
>
> External Client:
>
> 1) Define a listener via some standard XML (or other) config. The config
> would include the event(s) to listen for and an adapter to handle the
> events and re-format them to some standard format that can be sent via a
> lightweight tcp protocol.
> 2) Send the config to a server running within eclipse
>
> Eclipse Server:
>
> 3) The server will take the config and instanciate a listener and
> adapter for some period of time
> 4) Events are then pushed to the client via the same socket, additional
> connections or some other mechanism
>
> Is this possible? Practical?
>
> I am hoping to be able to hook into eclipse from outside in some generic
> way including dispatching events to eclipse objects. Generic because I
> am hoping to not have to write specific adapters for every specific type
> of event.
>
> I need this to be able to setup an environment where I can build
> _javascript_-based UI plugins for eclipse within Firefox and test
> interactions with eclipse. Once the plugins are deployed to eclipse they
> can either continue to use this server or fall to a lower level
> communication bridge.
>
> Christoph
>
>
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