I was interested in trying out the eclipse plug-in and it wasn't working. I seem to have resolved the problem with a little change to the Manifest file that I just committed. It would nice to make this plugin available somewhere even if only as a link to the jar. It's easy enough to download the jar and put it in the eclipse "dropins" folder. Having a full "update-site" is better, but for the short term, how about adding a link to the jar?
Here's a link to my updated jar: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2080408/cayenne-modeler-eclipse-plugin-3.1M4-SNAPSHOT.jar On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>wrote: > Just tried it for the first time myself. Pretty cool! Thanks to all who > made it happen. > > Building... Before you can do "mvn clean install", you need to do a fresh > local build of Cayenne trunk, as it is a dependency. For those who don't > want to build it, I placed the jar here > http://people.apache.org/~aadamchik/cayenne-modeler-eclipse-plugin-3.1M4-SNAPSHOT.jarto > move along this discussion. > > Now a bit of bikeshedding... > > * The naming of plugin doesn't seem to be the same as most other Eclipse > plugins: > cayenne-modeler-eclipse-plugin-3.1M4-SNAPSHOT.jar vs. say > org.apache.commons.codec_1.3.0.v20100518-1140.jar > * Screen positioning and size doesn't take into account preferences saved > from the Modeler started previously outside Eclipse. Other preferences are > used correctly. > * We'll need better icons. The current ones don't have transparency. > > But the above is all minor. The plugin works and I hope will become a > platform for further Modeler integration with Eclipse. So everybody who's > interested in that, please give it a try and let's discuss our next steps: > > 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)? > > 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 > > > >
