AW: AW: AW: What is Riena about? (was AW: AW: [riena-dev] Ridgets)

["Drossel, Carsten" <Carsten.Drossel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

> Is there something about Riena's concept of markers that is not
> possible
> with the Platform's IMarker's?

Of course we looked at the existing org.eclipse.core.resources.IMarker
before creating our own interface. We found however that the Platform's
IMarkers are specifically designed to mark an
org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource ("The workspace analog of file
system files and directories."). But what we want to mark are UI widgets
and modules of our process oriented UI that usually have no direct
equivalence in the file system. We discovered that we could not reuse
the existing interface without stretching its meaning to much. It would
also create an otherwise unnecessary dependence on the
org.eclipse.core.resources bundle.

Regards,
Carsten