[news.eclipse.stp.sca-tools] Re: SCA Meta-model & Designer extensibility

[bogdan.vatkov@xxxxxxx (Bogdan Vatkov)]

Hi Stephane,

Nice to hear from you too :)

I could plug-in some bindings, implementations and even an interface :)

By knowing that Tuscany and Frascati plug-ins already leverage most of the 
extensibility mechanisms and by reading the extensive doc at [0] I was 
able to implement my bindings.

Right after Vincent and Etienne gave me the hint that Tuscany and Frascati 
are already doing that I was able to go on with implementation :)

Regarding Designer (shapes, connectors) extensibility requirements I will 
come back to you as soon as I have more info on what exactly is needed to 
be extended/customized (e.g. colors, styles, shapes, layouts etc.).

Regarding the introspection - I think we will stick to EJB introspection 
:), also other types, but we do not support plain Java, but yes it will be 
interesting how Java files will be introspected and not that much from 
model to model transformation (Java to SCA) POV but rather from 
development artifact lifecycle POV i.e. when the very introspection 
happens, is it on Java file save, or is it per explicit user action (e.g. 
drag&drop), etc. This would be interesting.

I was not able to reach the stp repo via svn protocol - I tried from our 
(firewalled) corporate network, but also from my home network (no 
firewalls, no proxies, static ip address, etc.) and it did not work too.
Anyway I managed to reach the repo via http protocol :)

Best regards,
Bogdan

[0] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/stp-dev/msg00730.html