Re: [ve-dev] How to generate XML instead of Java in VEP

[Joe Winchester <WINCHEST@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sinha,

The preference page option "Show
XML Text" is really a debug option that allows the ability to see
the VE model serialized as XML (it is an EMF model that serializes easy
to XML).  This model is what is shown and updated by the viewers and
also built by code parsing so sometimes when things break it's useful to
see the model and see where the break is.  To get the option to show
the usual way is if you are starting Eclipse from itself (i.e. with a configuration)
visit the Tracing tab of this, select tracing for org.eclipse.ve.java.core
and check debug/xmltext.

If you are starting Eclipse and want
to do this without having to use a launch configuration you can also do
this with a .options file.

Is what you want to do make the VE so
it serializes to XML and opens on XML, i.e. has no Java code parsing and
generation ?  If so this is a scenario that is supported but right
now without a lot of documentation.  One thing we have kept kicking
around is the idea of doing a tutorial to show how to get it working with
something like XSWT for example, or maybe the JavaBeans XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder
format.  It would also help us to get the extension points and API
cleaned up if we published it as a tutorial and I think many people would
benefit from this.  Is this the kind of scenario that is close to
what you want to achieve ?

Best regards,

Joe Winchester