[news.eclipse.technology.glimmer] Glimmer on RCP ?

[Ketan Padegaonkar <ketanpadegaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alright, so we're considering glimmer as a tool to throw up wizards and 
views and all things SWT.

The SWT examples that are available on the glimmer home page are quite a 
compelling reason, I must say! We've done a few spikes around using 
plain ruby jruby to throw up some sample views.

There are several questions that come to mind as far as integrating 
glimmer into RCP is concerned:

packaging
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 - jruby, ruby base libraries and other gems

This is one of the highest concerns. This aspect gets funny when the 
eclipse class loader, and service discovery is involved.

 - my own plugins
Do I package my plugins as a jar? Will the require statements in ruby 
code continue to work? I guess not.

testing
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 - how would I unit test this code from a PDE-JUnit test launch, from 
within eclipse and also headless

interoperability with testing tools
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 - JTestr http://jtestr.codehaus.org/
Testing eclipse interfaces apps is a royal pain. JTestr makes it easy to 
test java code using jruby, and integrates with most ruby/java testing 
frameworks like rspec, mocha, junit, testng.

I'm sure there will be other questions that come to mind over the course 
of time, but I wanted to understand what are some of opinions and neat 
tips from the folks at glimmer.

--Ketan