[news.eclipse.technology.ldt] Re: What is the contribution?

[Bob Foster <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked this question, "What is the contribution?" at the late-scheduled 
EclipseCon LDT session. The speaker turned it into, "Is there a 
contribution?" and answered to the effect that BEA has a lot of code on 
the subject and might consider making some of it open source.

To which I say, hmmm.

The thing that struck me most about the talk is how grand was the 
vision, yet most comments here are to the effect that the scope is too 
limited. I suspect that the difference is that the BEA team has more 
experience in the trenches with actually trying to generalize multiple 
language support in the context of practical examples, like JSP, 
annotations, etc., while the commenters have the luxury of still being 
able to discuss the subject in the abstract.

This would be a good conversation, if there were one. What is needed is 
some comment from BEA.

Bob

Bob Foster wrote:
> With all those BEA heads, it's obvious this is a BEA-inspired initiative 
> (which is a good thing) and probably means BEA intends to contribute 
> some technology to kick the project off. It's entirely appropriate to 
> discuss what that technology is and how its approach differs from or 
> works with other initiatives in this area, like the previously mentioned 
> SSE, and Chris Laffra's generative plugin work.
>
> I and I'm sure many others are very excited by work in this area. I'm 
> looking forward to your Thursday 2 pm session at EclipseCon (for other 
> attendees, the session didn't make the program - check the fliers near 
> the messages board) where some of these questions will no doubt be 
> answered. But please remember the millions of Eclipse developers who 
> aren't at EclipseCon, and put that info on the web.
>
> Bob Foster