I just finished a small prototype of the possible Modeler plugin
environment that we may use in Cayenne 3.0 release [1]. It contains a
plugin launcher and two core plugins (generic swing and mock
modeler). To build the SVN code you can do this:
mvn clean package assembly:assembly
Or you can download a binary version [2]. The application is run from
a launcher jar file. You can either double click the jar (on OSes
that support that) or run it from command line:
# cd modeler-3.0-SNAPSHOT/
# java -jar modeler-launcher.jar
Any number of extra plugins can be placed in "modeler-3.0-SNAPSHOT/
plugins" folder (plugins must comply with Platonos plugin spec [3],
specifically there must be a plugin.xml file at the root).
In addition to the plugin functionality the prototype supports a few
other nice features:
* Loading of actions, menus and toolbars from XML descriptors.
* Localization. For testing purposes I added an extra Russian bundle,
so you may start the environment like this, and see the menus are
displayed in Russian:
java -Dcayenne.ui.locale=ru -jar modeler-launcher.jar
Andrus
P.S. Note that this stuff is totally unrelated to the Eclipse plugin
Summer of Code project.
[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cayenne/main/branches/
PROTO-3.0/modeler/
[2] http://dev.objectstyle.org/~andrus/modeler-3.0-SNAPSHOT-core.tar.gz
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/platonos
