[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: reuse the project facets framework for other

[Konstantin Komissarchik <kosta@xxxxxxx>]

> Do you think there can be a need for making a component out of some
> portions of the project faceted famework?
> The idea is that other tool developers would love to have some 
similar > wizards of their own wherein they can allow more people  to 
plug their > wizard pages into the main wizard.

> Is it not possible to refactor the existing code and achieve this? 
Any > possiblity of doing this?

Faceted project framework has some very specific requirements for the 
wizard framework that is part of it. These requirements preclude that 
code from being reusable as a generic extensible wizard framework.

Note that there are number of generic extensible wizard frameworks 
already in existence. One such framework is the data model wizard 
framework that is also part of WTP. Take a look at the following two 
plugins:

org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks
org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.ui

The following packages are relevant:

org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.datamodel
org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.internal.datamodel.ui

- Konstantin