[news.eclipse.technology.almiif] Proposal question

["Darin Wright" <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

After reading the ALMIIF project proposal, it's not clear to me what the 
scope of the project is, or what tools will need to do in addition to what 
they already do to work within the proposed framework. The initial example 
lists a large set of tools that may or may not operate well together. By 
design Eclipse is a platform upon which tools may sit side by side and play 
well together. Each tool may provide it's own API, opening itself up to 
other tools, allowing it to interoperate with other tools. Is there a simple 
way to describe what ALMIIF will provide for these tools, and what a tool 
such ask the Eclipse Java SDK will need to do to operate within this 
framework? I don't understand how ALMIIF provides more value than is already 
provided by an existing tool's API.

Thanks,

Darin