[news.eclipse.webtools.jsf] Re: How metadata files generated

[Yury Kats <ykats@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/17/2008 5:44 PM, Eclipsian wrote:
> Yury Kats wrote:
>> On 7/16/2008 7:18 PM, Gerry Kessler wrote:
>>> As you have discovered, there is no editor to simplify the creation, or 
>>> modification, of a tag library metadata file.  However, Yury Kats of IBM 
>>> has made a utility available that will generate a starting point metadata 
>>> file of all of the tag and attribute entities.   You will find it attached 
>>> to: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=181674.   
>> Keep in mind, it's over a year old now and hasn't been updated since.
> 
> Yes. It was for WTP 2.0 not WTP 3.0.

Has metadata changed that much between 2.0 and 3.0? I don't think it has.

> It helps but not a lot. I wonder if it is possible to do some more work 
>   based on EMF code in current jst.jsf.core

The tool would give you a skeleton XML that at the very least contains
all tags and all attributes. You can certainly get the same from the EMF model.
I was also creating actual metadata for many common attributes (id, value, rendered,
action, width etc etc). You won't get from the EMF model.