Re: [platform-ui-dev] Article on workbench internals

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The high level architecture of the various eclipse projects and 
components, and how they interrelate, is well documented in the Eclipse 
Roadmap (one of the first links off of http://eclipse.org) and the 
Architecture Plan it refers to.
The Platform Plug-in Developers guide also gives a good overview (and 
details) of the platform architecture, and we have many articles in the 
main articles section discussing the various components and how to use 
them.
We also talk about the Architecture of eclipse at eclipsecon and other 
conferences.

More detailed documents describing the internal design of individual 
components are not of general interest, and belong off of the 
corresponding component pages.  I don't think plug-in developers would be 
well served by posting internal design documents for the entire, rapidly 
growing, set of eclipse components in the main articles section.

Nick





Bob Foster <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Hidden in plain sight? ;-}

I went to NetBeans Day at JavaOne, where speakers were delighted to talk 
about the NetBeans Architecture, with a capital A. Eclipse seems to hide 
its architecture under a bushel. It's a shame.

Bob

Nick Edgar wrote:
> I agree it should be published in the open, but not in the general 
> articles section, just of the Platform UI development resources page (as 

> it already is):
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http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/dev.html

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> "Platform UI team" is not a closed set. Anyone can make a contribution 
> to Eclipse, or at least try to; the more information people have the 
> more likely you are to get quality contributions.
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> Everything about Eclipse should be out in the open and freely available. 

> To satisfy Nick's concern, his second paragraph could be added to the 
> article at the top.
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> Bob
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> Nick Edgar wrote:
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>>Ed, the intent of this article is to capture the design of the workbench 

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>>internals for the Platform UI team.
>>Developers using the workbench should not need to know most of this.
>>I'm inclined to leave it as a link off of the Platform UI development 
>>resources page, and not publish it on the main articles page.
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>>Note also that, since this describes internals and not API, that the 
>>design may change at any time.
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>>Nick
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>>"Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx> 
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>>This is a nice article, mind if I link to it from the Eclipse Corner 
>>articles page? 
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>[mailto:platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Xenos
>>>Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:14 PM
>>>To: platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [platform-ui-dev] Article on workbench internals
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>>>I've put together a quick article describing the workbench internals.
>>>This may be helpful for anyone trying to understand the platform UI
>>>code base. Download it here:
>>>
>>>http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platfo
>>>rm-ui-home/workbench_design/Inside%20the%20workbench.html

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