RE: [ve-dev] Re: [Design] Init string parsing

[Dr Gili Mendel <gmendel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To sum it up,   the AST Rich is
proposing is a small generic portion the JDT AST tree and comes to model
VE expressions.  Besides the fact that these expressions need to be
searlized to XMI, they may also include references to EMF objects (IJavaObjectInstance).
   These AST nodes would be used by the target VM (or any other
remoting mechanism) to evaluate and instantiate of the real thing.  The
target environment may or may not have the means to access JDT's AST.




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Dr. Gili Mendel
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Rich Kulp/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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01/16/2004 06:17 PM

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Ed, 

The reason we are doing this is because we need to be able to run without
AST. The default editor is the java visual editor, which will have AST
available, but the VE itself has something called JBCF which allows editing
java models that come out of an XMI file and not from code. Because of
that we need a representation that can be serialized through EMF to an
XMI file. 

Thanks, 
Rich