Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] What I dislike about using EMF for e4...

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm... I actually thought that it *was* possible to make it work like "document.body.style.backgroundColor="#FF000";" but that was just based on a brief conversation I had with someone who seemed to understand Rhino better than me.

I guess what I was getting at though was that when I'm looking at one of the model objects it should look like it's as simple as the equivalent JSON object, and it probably doesn't need a lot more than that in the way of capabilities.

McQ.


Tom Schindl ---04/24/2008 11:33:08 AM---Mike Wilson schrieb:

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Mike Wilson schrieb:
> Ed,
> 
> You have seen us make these mistakes before. I get it. But you need to 
> at least consider the possibility that the full generality of EMF, after 
> years of it being applied to increasingly general problems might not 
> *always* be required.
> 
> In any case, if we are going to talk about communities, shouldn't we be 
> trying to end up with something that "feels" like accessing the browser 
> DOM from _javascript_ (+ listeners)? I'm certain that people who 
> understand *that* dwarf all Eclipse communities.
> 

I have never understood what scripting has to do with whether we use 
EMF/WrappedHashMaps/... . I might be wrong but as far as I have used 
JVM-Scripting technologies something like this:

---------8<---------
document.body.style.backgroundColor="#FF000";
---------8<---------

is not possible and has too look like this:

---------8<---------
document.getBody().getStyle().setBackgroundColor("#FF000");
---------8<---------

As far as I remember the cool thing about the browser scripting engines 
is that there's an event fired when a field is set.

Tom

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