Re: [rap-dev] Differences between RAP and Eclipse source

[Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla@xxxxxxx>]

With the move to the org.eclipse.ui.* and org.eclipse.swt.* namespaces, 
the PDE incubation project "API Tools" could get really interesting. See 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/PDE_UI_Incubator_ApiTools_Compare for 
more informations.

Cheers
Benny

Benjamin Muskalla wrote:
> Hi Jochen,
>
> thanks for the answers. My next question would be how your workflow 
> looks like. As you mentioned the copy-and-paste approach, I've an idea 
> about the whole thing I want to share with the RAP devs:
>
> What about writing a little plugin based on JDT which compares two 
> plugins on their API level. I think about usage of the JDT AST to 
> compare the methods and their corresponding JavaDoc and set markers in 
> the RAP projects if there is something missing which is already 
> available in SWT/Workbench projects. I think with such a tool, the 
> migration to the 3.3 codebase could be done a little easier too.
>
> It would be great to have some feedback on this. At the moment, I've 
> some time left and could try to implement such a "API compatibility 
> tool" for the RAP project to easier maintain the RAP and RWT code.
>
> Greets
> Benny
>
> Jochen Krause wrote:
> > Hi Benny,
> >
> > We are not happy with the copy and paste approach that we have to pursue
> > right now and hope that we can implement a better solution in the
> > future. Moving to the same namespaces is a serious step into this
> > direction. In the meantime I agree that we should offer full API doc to
> > the complete subset of API that we provide. We will take care of this
> > issue when we move to the 3.3 code base in the M4 milestone timeframe.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jochen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rap-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rap-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Benjamin Muskalla
> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:51 AM
> > To: RAP Dev List
> > Subject: [rap-dev] Differences between RAP and Eclipse source
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Why didn't you copy the original java files from the workbench over to
> > the RAP project? In some cases, it is a copy with some modifications but
> > in other cases you just provide a very simple implementation without any
> > comments or so. Look for example at the IWorkbenchPart interface. 
> > Compared with the one shipped with RAP, it's commented in a very good
> > way. I think this should be the case for RAP too as the interfaces have
> > the same goal. Maybe there is a special reason for that - i just did not
> > get it :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >   Benny
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