> 1. How are we going to release this - include the jar in Cayenne core? > release it separately? are there any licensing obstacles to releasing the > plugin within Apache (incompatible deps)?
If it is an eclipse plugin i would expect an eclipse update site. Did not install manually for eclipse the past years. We have created a pear channel for log4php, which is pretty the same concept, so I guess it would be ok to have such an eclipse upate site too Christian > > 2. What are the immediate next features that we need to make it more useful / > more user-friendly? > > Thoughts? > > Andrus > > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk wrote: > >> There is a lot of time passed since the idea of Cayenne Eclipse integration >> appeared. And finally we have actual code in our svn repository (thanks to >> Eshan and Ksenia mentoring him for their work). I've fixed some bugs and did >> some cleanup on the code last days and it seems like the plugin is quite >> workable. >> As a benefit of Eclipse integration we receive such useful thing as ability >> to open project in Cayenne Modeler right from Eclipse IDE just by double >> clicking on Cayenne project's xml file (now all cayenne xml files are marked >> with Cayenne icon in Eclipse) at Project Explorer view. And another handy >> feature is automatic class regeneration and update of Eclipse project when >> we save it in the Modeler. >> >> To try it you just need to do svn checkout from >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cayenne/sandbox/cayenne-modeler-eclipse-plugin-gsoc/ >> and build it with maven by running "mvn clean install". Then copy >> cayenne-modeler-eclipse-plugin*.jar to your .../eclipse/plugins/ directory, >> restart Eclipse and the plugin is ready to work. >> >> So, everyone is welcome to try it out and express opinion on it. >> >> Dzmitry >> > > -- http://www.grobmeier.de
