| [eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Technology Project Declaration: Language Development Toolkit (LDT) |
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As
per the Eclipse
Development Process, we are notifying the Eclipse
Membership-at-Large of the intent of BEA
to propose the Language Development Toolkit Project as a Technology
sub-project. A brief description of the project
is below. A
draft project proposal is at http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ldt/index.html
Language Development Toolkit The proposed LDT project would extend the success of the JDT to a more general concept of language aware services within the Eclipse framework, increasing the degree of reuse among language-enabled editors and views while decreasing the costs of implementing new languages and language services. Steps toward this goal include extending the JDT to support metadata-driven programming (“apt/mirror”), defining public APIs to support languages that contain nested Java regions (JSP, BPELJ), and increasing support for cross language translation (Schema-to-Java bindings, IDL compilation, Ant task debugging, and so forth), including generalizing the Java project model to additional languages. Long term goals include moving toward a common source editing framework parameterized by language analyzers (lexers, parsers, and checkers) rather than independent silos that recreate base functionality. LDT provides a collaborative arena for developing such concepts and a staging ground for integrating them with established areas of Eclipse, including the JDT, SSE, CDT, and others. We look forward to input and discussion from the Eclipse community. --
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