Re: [pde-dev] DS annotation builder plug-in for the PDE

[Curtis Windatt <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gerd,

The plug-in does look like a valuable
extension for PDE.  The only issue is the limited amount of committer
time available to review the fix and maintain it in future releases.

The feasibility of this should be discussed
after 4.2 is released.

Curtis Windatt

From:	Gerd Wütherich <gerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Date:	2012/04/13 04:33 AM
Subject:	[pde-dev] DS annotation builder plug-in for the PDE
Sent by:	pde-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi,

as you may know, the upcoming OSGi R5 specification (http://www.osgi.org/download/osgi.enterprise-5.0.0-pfd.pdf)
contains a set of Declarative Services Annotations that can be used to
generate the component description at build time. This approach significantly
simplifies the development of service components. To support this approach
in the PDE, I recently implemented a PDE annotation builder plugin (see
http://drupal.gerd-wuetherich.de/pde-annotation-builder-en.html),
based on some work Nils Hartmann and Frank Schlüter did before. This plugin
provides a custom builder that generates component descriptions by traversing
the ASTs of all source files that are contained in a PDE project.

The plugin works quit nice, and from my POV it would be
a valuable extension for the PDE. So my question is if there is any interest/possibility
to contibute the plugin the PDE project? It already is open source and
licensed under the EPL (Git-Repository: https://github.com/wuetherich/ds-annotation-builder). 

Regards,
Gerd Wütherich
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