> 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
>>
>
>



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