(It was sooo tempting to return to my email or to make phone calls, but
I said I'd do this so here it is...)
Major Eclipse Platform components:
- OSGi plug-in loader
- Ant
- Update
- Resource model including IWorkspace and IProject
- Workbench User Interface including menus, editors, views,
wizards, etc.
- JDT Compiler and in-memory model
- JDT User Interface (editors, views, wizards, debugger, etc)
- Debug Framework
- Team Framework including compare/difference engine and user
interface
- CVS Team Tools
- PDE
- Widgets (SWT and JFace)
- Help System
We can use an automated tool to determine what the dependencies between
the these components are. I'm playing around with Lattix for this purpose. It
doesn't break up as cleanly as I would like (the upper diagonal numbers
are dependencies that violate my component structure):
Part of my problem is that I started from package names and the
Platform has ui code mixed with core code under the same high level
package, e.g., org.eclipse.foo.internal.ui... and
org.eclipse.foo.internal... so I have to go through and separate out
each of the dependent pieces. I'm not complaining, I'm just stating
that the packaging naming does not exactly match my idea of how the
components are laid out.
Clearly there is a layout of the components that works or Eclipse
couldn't load, so perhaps I should start from the plug-ins rather than
the package names...
Anyway, my 30 minutes is up, so here's my input...
Bjorn
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