| [e4-dev] Eclipse e4 at 2009 the Google Summer of Code |
Hello guys, I discovered JavaScript support inside e4 a month ago and I am really excited about Eclipse support for scripting languages. In december 2008 I did a talk at the french PHP conference on how people can use the PHP Development Toolkit (PDT) to integrate their own PHP frameworks and tools inside Eclipse (http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2008/sessions.php#105). However, PHP developers are often not familiar with Java and they need to use PHP not only for dynamic capabilities but also to integrate PHP-written libraries inside Eclipse. Using PHP as a runtime language for plug-in is also an opportunity to script development workflows. When I discovered e4, I wrote a JavaScript plug-in that performs statis analysis on PHP source-code as a showcase: http://code.google.com/p/jspde/source/browse/trunk/org.phpaspect.examples/src/PHPStaticAnalysis.js I also started to play with e4 and bring basic functionnalities such as JSON bundle validation extending PDE builders: http://code.google.com/p/jspde/source/browse/#svn/trunk/eu.tl1.jspde.core/src/eu/tl1/jspde/internal/core/builder. This is a lot of fun and I applied to the 2009 Google Summer of Code: "Leverage one of existing PHP/Java bridges for adding a PHP support into e4". You will find my proposal enclosed. I also wrote a couple of slides that sum-up my proposal: http://www.slideshare.net/wcandillon/e4php-google-summer-of-code-proposal I wrote a small proof of concept that Java can talk with PHP as well than it does with Rhino. This project would be a giant leap for PHP developers but also a great showcase for other communities looking to integrate other scripting languages inside e4. If you think that this project is worthwhile, please log-in on the Google Summer of Code application and please vote for this proposal. Please send me your feedbacks. Best regards, William -- William Candillon
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