What we need is an MDA approach :-) A model of the application and a set of cartridges for a particular development environment.
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:28 -0600, Chad Brandon wrote: > Yeah we do need a generic code project generator, and then we could use > templates for each given target build tool, right now we are duplicating > effort between the maven and ant generator. Also when we move to > maven2, it would be a lot easier if the andromdapp plugin was just a > wrapper around the java library that performed most of the work, right > now it uses a lot of jelly code (which was the quick and easy way of > getting the thing going). > > Peter Friese wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I started work on Android, an Eclipse Plug-in for AndroMDA. Currently, > > I am working on a "New AndroMDA Project" wizard that does exactly what > > the AndroMDApp maven plug-in does. In fact, I am planning to use > > AndroMDApp as the backend for the wizard. While I was thinking about > > it, it appeared to me that it might be a good idea to use a generative > > approach to writing / creating the "New project wizards". After all, > > the maven plug-in and the ANT "andromda-ant" tool and he Eclipse > > wizard all will do the same thing: collect some decisions from the > > user and fill them into some templates to create a new project. Of > > course, the ant tool creates an ANT-like structure and the maven > > plug-in creates a maven project, but this might be a choice of the > > user as well... > > > > My plan is to provide a basic implementation of the New Project Wizard > > and look for ways how to generalize it. If anybody else steps up to > > help with creating additional wizards and editors, I'd greatly > > appreciate it. > > > > Peter > > > > Chad Brandon wrote: > > > >> I tried it a while ago, and while it had good ideas, I think it had a > >> ways to go in usabiliy, maybe its improved since then. > >> > >> Matthias Bohlen wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> just tried the Maven IDE plug-in for Eclipse. Looks promising. It can > >>> even recognize plugins for Maven and can edit their preferences if > >>> they supply an Eclipse plug-in for Mevenide. (Does everybody understand > >>> what plugs into what? :-)). > >>> > >>> Martin, are you interested to integrate our AndroMDA Maven plug-ins > >>> into Mevenide? Would make mda/project.xml editing easier. See > >>> http://mevenide.codehaus.org/mevenide-ui-eclipse/user-guide/provider-infrastructure.html > >>> > >>> > >>> and > >>> http://mevenide.codehaus.org/mevenide-ui-eclipse/user-guide/pom-templates.html > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers... > >>> Matthias > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Andromda-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel -- regards Martin West 01962 712 137 07879 680 096 http://thecla.homeftp.net aim:amartinwest msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
