Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant/External Tools for 2.2

[Gregor Heinze <gregor.heinze@xxxxxxxx>]

I've sent this message already wednesday but it never appeared in the list so
I send it again now:

Tuesday, 1. April 2003 21:35, Jared Burns wrote:

JB> Here are a few thoughts about things we could do for 2.2 in addition to bug 
JB> fixes. I'd like to do the architectural changes; the features are just ideas, 
JB> not necessarily things I'm crazy about.

JB> Architecture:
JB> 1. Rework plug-in structure.
JB>   - Move Ant UI code to org.eclipse.ant.ui plugin
JB>   - Move generic bits (like variables) into the debug framework
JB> 2. Create/choose an Ant model. We have a few competing "Ant models" in our 
JB> world. They should be unified.

JB> Features:
JB> 1. Wizard for creating Ant buildfiles. We could do anything from simply 
JB> creating a skeleton that defines a named project and the default target to 
JB> generating templates for common scenarios like building, packaging, and 
JB> deploying.
JB> 2. More UI manipulation of buildfiles. Things like adding and removing targets 
JB> and tasks via the outline.
JB> 3. Add refactoring support for Ant. Rename and Extract Target come to mind as 
JB> valid refactorings.

JB> Thoughts? Additional ideas?

JB> - Jared


I allowed myself to play a bit with the code of the plugin.
Doing this I've replaced the AntModel of the outline view with a DOM
based AntDocument. The Ant build file is then parsed into a DOM tree
which is shown in the outline as the old AntModel. Based on this DOM
model it's quite easy to implement things like adding and removing of
targets etc.

I can sent the code if someone is interested.


Beste regards,
 Gregor