[jdt-core-dev] Re: Want to help

["Philippe Mulet/SNZ/OTI" <Philippe_Mulet@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Jens,

Thanks for your interest in improving the Java tooling (you can subscribe 
to the jdt-core-dev/jdt-ui-dev lists in order to get in touch with us more 
easily). The two domains you have selected are located either in the 
JDT/UI or JDT/Core. We realized that this might not be obvious for you to 
figure this out, and will try to improve our project pages to better 
reflect responsibilities.

* Refactoring : we currently are under the progress of implementing a new 
JDOM abstract syntax tree (i.e. a set of API allowing to manipulate in a 
structured way Java sources, down to an individual expression, and 
optionally carrying some resolved type information, like resolved method 
signature etc...).
This effort is on the JDT/Core side, and will better enable refactoring in 
term. Of course, refactoring is not the only target for these API, but it 
clearly is a good testcase. This API is visible at: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jdt.core/notes/r2.0/jdom%20ast/ast.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

* Code formatter: the current implementation is somewhat limited in the 
sense it does not easily allow to plug custom patterns in it. We are 
thinking of changing it radically, but likely after the 2.0 release. Now 
this could change, especially if you are thinking of helping us...

In order to better understand our current plans, you can check our project 
page at:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-core-home/main.html

Sincerly,
Philippe Mulet





Erich Gamma
11/11/2001 09:30 PM


        To:     "Jens Lukowski" <jens.lukowski@xxxxxx>
        cc:     (bcc: Philippe Mulet/SNZ/OTI)
        Subject:        Re: Want to help

Hi

thanks for your interest. I haven't answered yet since I want to discuss 
this
with the JCORE team first (they own the formatter engine). I'll get back 
to you soon.

--erich





"Jens Lukowski" <jens.lukowski@xxxxxx>
11/11/2001 12:16 PM

 
        To:     "Erich Gamma/ZRH/OTI" <Erich_Gamma@xxxxxxx>
        cc: 
        Subject:        Want to help

Hi

Sorry to bother you with this
but I don't know where to start and where I can help and
since nobody answered to my posting and I can't find
any info on the homepage how I can contribute to this
project (JDT UI), I wrote to you directly.

I would like to work on the refactorings/refactoring API, the code 
formatter
(is this the right project group for this?) and the UI in general.
I have some ideas for enhancing the code formatter.
What can I do ?

thank you in advance
  Jens Lukowski