[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Naming the Eclipse Application Framework

[Genady <genadyb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest NOVA as the name for the framework.
If follows the path of "Eclipse" being an astronomic phenomena, and 
sounds like an excellent new thing.
I'm sure it can be acronims of something, like
* New Open Vendor Architecture
* Native Object Vault Assembly
* New Object Vault Architecture
... or whatever

If anybody have more suggestions plesse post them :)

Genady

David J. Orme wrote:
> Standalone applications can be built on several levels of Eclipse 
> technology.  A common current configuration is to build an application 
> using SWT+JFace, but not including the plugin framework or the 
> viewer/editor framework.  As Eclipse evolves, it would not be suprising 
> if even more Eclipse technologies become used in standalone applications 
> in a way similar to JFace.
>
> However, there is currently no commonly-understood term describing 
> standalone applications that are built using more than SWT but using 
> less than the entire Eclipse platform.  Consequently, many people have 
> begun calling these applications "SWT applications" because SWT is the 
> most recognizable ingredient in these applications.  This has resulted 
> in confusion about where to post messages in the newsgroups for people 
> who are building applications using SWT+JFace (for example).  These 
> really aren't eclipse.platform applications.  Neither are they SWT 
> applications.
>
> The current solution has been to observe that JFace is currently 
> distributed as a part of the Eclipse platform (Platform/UI); 
> consequently all JFace questions are being directed to e.platform.  This 
> is a good intermediate solution, but if more and more people build 
> standalone applications based on something less than the Eclipse 
> platform, but something more than just SWT, this confusion is likely to 
> increase, not decrease.  This will especially be true if people keep 
> calling these applications "SWT applications" after their most 
> recognizable ingredient.
>
> Therefore, I propose that the first step to solving this problem is to 
> come up with a name describing the set of technologies (SWT, JFace, 
> etc.) that together make up The Eclipse Application Framework, but don't 
> also include both the plugin manager and the viewer/editor framework. By 
> extension, this will give us a term to describe the applications built 
> using these technologies.
>
> The result will be that we will be able to more precisely describe what 
> we are talking about when we describe an application built using Eclipse 
> technologies.  This will also head off the confusion caused by people 
> calling Eclipse Application Framework programs SWT programs and 
> consequently posting JFace questions in the SWT newsgroup.
>
> The best name I've thought of so far is Eclipse Application Framework 
> (EAF); certainly somebody else can do better... :-)
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Dave