[News.eclipse.dsdp.mtj] Re: Preprocessing Discussion

[Sebastian Sickelmann <sebastian.sickelmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Thanks to Artjom for the good post. I think the mean problem is that
we(the founders/developers of Annocracy) had not yet posted enought
information to Newsgroup/Mailinglist/Wiki about Annocracy-Features. I
think that we should change this as soon as possible. Whats the best way?

We have a bugzilla account, i think with this we can edit MTJ-Wiki.
Should be build up a knowledge-base for Annocracy in MTJ-Wiki? There we
can explain the core Annotations the processing and a "How can i
translate this polish-notation efficently to Annocracy".

@Rauno: Can you place a starting-page for this, if this wiki-part is
wanted? Or should we start a new wiki for that at four2b? We are using
MediaWiki, so there is a good change to transfer is easialy later.

Artjom Bitor schrieb:
> Hello!
> 
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> 
> If you are working with annotations you need Java 5 - there is nothing
> to appeal against. You should have this installed on your computer if
> you want to use Annocracy. But I don't really understand the problem
> mentioned by Richard: "... The plugin processing the annotated classes
> need to run in a Java5 VM. This is in contrast to the claim eclipse runs
> on 1.4..." 
I think i found what Ricky means:
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.2.1.html

*With the exception of a small set of features that actually require
*Java SE 5 APIs (in particular, the support for Annotation Processing
*and JUnit 4), the 3.2 release of the Eclipse Project runs against
*version 1.4 of the Java 2 Platform. As such, the Eclipse Project SDK as
*a whole is targeted at both 1.4 and Java5 VMs, with full functionality
*available for 1.4 level development everywhere, and new Java5 specific
*capabilities available when running on a Java5 VM. Appendix 1 contains
*a table that indicates the class library level required for each
*plug-in.

But i think that there is no problem with it. Users who wanted to use
Annocracy as preprocessing solution must use a Java5-VM as Eclipse
Runtime. Annocracy should not be the one and only preprocessing-solution
in MTJ. If i reminder me correct, Arto had designed an extension-Point
for MTJ-Buildprocessing and Preprocessing.

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