Re: [wtp-dev] JSDT status?

[Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vassil,
JSDT's JDT ancestry allows for anyone
to supply a completion "computer" by extension point (org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.javaCompletionProposalComputer),
and provides mechanisms for accessing and modifying our AST (it mirrors
the JDT constructs, but is too much to detail here).  The inferencing
engine has an feature request, 242162, for opening it up further in 3.2.
 Since its results are already merged into the model, the larger question
is whether it's open enough to achieve what adopters are asking of it,
and for that we need more feedback from people trying to work with it.
 General UI fixes would be pretty nice to have contributions on, since
we're already looking at those changes in the next release (an RSS feed
of a bugs fixed in WTP Bugzilla query can be handy if you want to monitor
progress).  Now is an excellent time to dive in.

As for debugging support, that functionality
was intended to remain with the ATF incubating project when JSDT was graduated
into the Web Tools Platform for 3.0.  It's certainly not something
we were planning to attempt with JSDT in time for WTP 3.2.  A second
continuation review is planned to keep the ATF project alive (see http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/wayne/2009/05/20/atf-termination-review-deferred/),
and I'm sure the PDT team would welcome a helping hand in their efforts.

Regards,
---
Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse WTP Source Editing
IBM Rational

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Hi Nitin,

Thanks, that's very helpful. Generally, what we are looking for is an IDE
front-end because building one from scratch is obviously a lot of work.
JSDT seems to fit the bill nicely. One thing we would need is to feed AST,
type inferencing and code completion information from our tooling into
it. I haven't seen if the current architecture supports pluggable backends
like this, but I assume it shouldn't be too hard to do. The other are general
UI fixes and improvements to make sure everything works nicely.  I
saw support for debug markers on the feature list--that's another thing
we want. I don't see a counterpart of JDT's debugging UI plugin anywhere,
though. Is it something that's in store until someone asks for it?

Cheers,

--Vassili

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Vassili, 
There's actually quite a bit going on, most of it currently focused on
making the fundamentals as rock solid as possible and cleaning up the UI.
 Right now that means a number of low-level adjustments to the parser
and validation code to more closely reflect _javascript_'s typing and syntax
and smoothing out areas of the UI that still reflect its origin as a copy
of JDT.  A number of these fixes were done for 3.0.5 and 3.1 courtesy
of our newest committer, and he's already back at it for 3.2.  We'll
also be tackling issues with web page integration during 3.2's development.
 Time permitting, we'll be updating the existing OpenAJAX metadata
support to the newer drafts and making sure our pluggable type inferrencing
engine covers the cases our adopters have asked about.  The web site
documentation is still an area we need to update, hopefully when my other
3.1 responsibilities are finished. 

We'd love to have any contributions you're interested in making.  What
were you interested in enhancing? 

Regards,
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Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse WTP Source Editing
IBM Rational

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Hi,

I'm starting to work on some new _javascript_ tooling here at Google, and
looking if there are existing open source solutions we could build on (contributing
parts back). JSDT is the obvious choice, but the "official" information
online looks old and overall it doesn't look like there's much going on.
Is anyone working on it, and how actively?

Cheers,

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