Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] SWT port to Flex

[Steve Northover <Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From what I understand, the W3C provides
a portable API for this.  At one point, I saw an implementation that
ran on IE and Mozilla (but this was way back).

If you had a DOM API to program from
Java, how would this be better than "run this hunk"?  Is
the problem that you can't get a result back to Java?  I imagine that
would be easier to address than implementing a complete W3C DOM (or whatever)
for Java.  Besides, DOM programming seems clumsy and verbose to me
from Java.

Also, UI's go two ways:  You kick
the UI and it kicks you.  It seems that you also need a way to call
Java from browser code as well as calling the browser code from Java.  It's
call-in/call-out (yet again).  Flex has a nice API to do both when
interacting with the Flash player.

I don't see why this couldn't be part
of e4.  As has been said elsewhere, things that make sense in e4 may
find their way into 3.x but there is no guarantee of this.  Can you
formalize what you are looking for, google to find out what others do and
perhaps hack up some mock sample code?

Patrick Mueller <pmuellr@xxxxxxxxx>
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09/19/2008 05:48 PM

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I understand.  I think I just have a different problem
that isn't addressed by e4.  Which is a bit confusing since both problem
spaces talk to "the web".

I think my main problem boils down to: I want more API
on SWT Browser so I can talk from inside the browser to outside (Java),
and probably finer control over talking to the inside (browser) from the
outside (Java) than the current "run this hunk of _javascript_ code"
method.  For example, it would be nice to have direct access to the
DOM from Java.

You could view this as purely "SWT Browser enhancement",
or perhaps lump it into e4 somehow as a "web-ish enhancement",
kinda like bringing CSS concepts into SWT.

On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Steve Northover wrote:

 We need an advanced Java editor
that can run both on the desktop and the web.  That's all.


Patrick Mueller
http://muellerware.org/


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