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Re: [equinox-dev] [api tooling] Re: Using component.xml as a starting point

Without a non-javadoc based mechanism to describe API (not necessarily
component.xml), how will you be reasoning about what the API is for a
compiled jar?

PaScaL

equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/29/2007 04:54:15 PM:

>
> We are getting close the chicken and egg problem here....
>
> When it's time for developers to start using the tooling, we want to
> make it easy - so yes, it would be handy to have a tool that inserts
> javadoc tags based on existing component XMLs. I think the tags
> "replace" component.xml - so I don't think we should have tooling to
> keep the two in synch. I would see this as a "one off" tool to get
> started. For that reason, I don't think we would want to create
> markers as it would require "active" tooling to keep the two in
> synch. As well, we'd have to have some mechanism for knowing if the
> "component.xml" should be considered as the "source" for tag
> generation, or the "target" for caching existing tags. It feels
> awkward to have duplicated information in the IDE - when the user
> can edit both. Would it be better to have a tool/action/wizard that
> processes the component XML and generates a report for issues
> (rather than makers)?
>
> Does anyone think that we should have tooling to maintain the
> "component.xml" files? I'd rather just use the javadoc tags as the
> "source" of the information in the workspace. At build time, we
> could also use source to generate that part of our API description.
>
> Darin
>
>

>
> Olivier Thomann/Ottawa/IBM
> 10/29/2007 02:17 PM
>
> To
>
> Darin Wright/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, Michael Rennie/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, Jeff
> McAffer/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
>
> cc
>
> Subject
>
> Using component.xml as a starting point
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We should use the existing component.xml file for each plugin in the
> SDK to "tag" the corresponding types with the appropriate javadoc tag.
> So the tool would take the component.xml and check all the API types
> inside the workspace.
> The existing text that describes the API usage would be replaced
> with the corresponding tag and for the API type where the existing
> text is not an exact match, the tag would be added and a marker
> created to remember that this file should be double-checked.
> The "new" API types that have been added since the component.xml was
> created should also be marked to be double-checked.
>
> This could allow us to get a "good" baseline.
>
> What do you think?
>
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