Re: [pde-ui-dev] PDE design document?

["Dejan Glozic" <dejan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chen,

Eclipse team in general is fairly busy, and the same applies to the PDE
team. Between designing new features, fixing defects and providing
documentation for APIs, there is very little time to document interesting
internal implementation details.

We are currently looking at opening up the 'forms' framework that is used
for PDE manifest editors. In the mean time, do what we all do: read the
code, place breakpoints to follow the execution flow, and post specific
questions on component mailing lists.

Regards,

Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
Manager, Eclipse Platform Components
D2/MY7/8200/MKM
IBM Canada Ltd.
Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
Fax. 905 413-4854



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Is there a design document about PDE that can be shared? I'm talking
about
the design of the PDE plugins, not just the
user-guide-kind-of-documentation.

The reason I'm asking is that the PDE has some very interesting stuff
in there, e.g. the plugin manifest browser. This also applies to other
Eclipse plugins too.

We can certainly read the source code (BTW, the source code is amazingly
clean, i.e. not much of comments!!! And the Eclipse/SWT/JFace API docs
are very clean too!), but if the design document is made available to
the
public, it would be really helpful. It would be helpful for other people
to
see how certain things are done, and that would certainly help
developers
who develop on the Eclipse platform.

Since the whole set of source code is open already, is there any reason
not to release the design document to the public?

Thanks

csp




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