[hyades-dev] Plugin changes for 3.0 - your action required

[Valentina Popescu <popescu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody
As you might now, we have started the
effort of moving Hyades to Eclipse 3.0 and plan to have a first drop to
wswb by the of next week. 

Can you please go over the plugins you
own, including nl, infopop and doc plugins and make sure they are Eclipse
3.0 compliant.
I tried to fix all the plugins so we
can have a clean build by eod today which means some of your plugins might
be already updated.
See below the things you should look
for when porting the code. 


Manifest (plugin.xml) changes:

* The header of the manifest files for plug-ins
(and plug-in fragments) has changed to include a new line which identifies
the appropriate plug-in manifest version.

        <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <?eclipse version="3.0"?>
        <plugin ...>
            ...
        </plugin> 

        All our
plugins should have this line.


* For 3.0, all plug-ins that reference API
classes in the org.eclipse.core.runtime or org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility
plug-ins must explicitly include the following line in the plug-in manifest:

        <import
plugin="org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility"/>

        See the
migration guide for details.

* The org.eclipse.ui plugin was restructured,
and some functionality was moved to the following plugins:

        org.eclipse.ui.ide
        org.eclipse.ui.views
        org.eclipse.ui.editor
        org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor
        org.eclipse.jface.text

        You will
need to import these dependencies in the plugin manifests, and update your
classpath.


Source changes


IWorkbenchPage (package org.eclipse.ui)

* public IEditorPart openEditor(IFile input)

        This
method was removed because it is IDE-specific. Instead, use:
        org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditor(IWorkbenchPage,
IFile, boolean)

* public IEditorPart openEditor(IFile input,
String editorID)

        This
method was removed for the same reason. Instead, use:
        openEditor(new
FileEditorInput(input), editorID)

IEditorRegistry (package org.eclipse.ui)

* public IEditorDescriptor getEditors(IFile
input)

        This
method disappeared in 3.0, without any documentation explaining why.
        Use the
String version instead: getEditors(input.getName())


For the 3.0 migration guide, see:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/porting/eclipse_3_0_porting_guide.html



Thank you,
Valentina Popescu
 IBM Toronto Labs,   popescu@xxxxxxxxxx
 (905)413-2412         (tie-line  969)
fax: (905) 413-4920