Hi Tamar,

It might be worth looking at/contacting the TM project. They are
specialized in exposing local and remote file systems [1].

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/tm/

Cheers,

Wim



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Cohen, Tamar (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian
Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tom --
>
> very good, thanks for the prompt response -- I'll go ahead and roll my
> own.  I'll see also if I can (finally) become a committer and contribute it
> back!
>
> Tamar
>
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Tom Schindl <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi Tamar,
> >
> > As of now bare bone e4 does not have anything related to:
> > a) editors
> > b) filesystem views like Common Navigator
> >
> > Since NIO2 the Java-File-API has been greatly improved one could think
> > about working directly with this API instead of going through
> > core.resources. IIRC there John told me sometime ago that some one
> > ported the core.resources API to work with the Java one but I could be
> > wrong in this regard.
> >
> > Generally speaking I agree that the Eclipse Resource System with it's
> > project structure does not make a whole lot of sense in most RCP apps
> > but it might make much more sense to directly work with the filesystem
> APIs.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On 13.11.13 00:25, Cohen, Tamar (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies
> > Inc. (SGT Inc.)] wrote:
> >> Hi e4-dev,
> >>
> >> Please let me know if there is a better newsgroup to post to.
> >>
> >> I am working on an e4 based RCP application and as part of it I want to
> provide the ability to create new files of my file type, and edit them with
> my editor.  In the past, we have had to use Eclipse Resources (create
> eclipse projects and the like).
> >>
> >> I am wondering if we have addressed this yet in e4?  I read about the
> Semantic File System stuff (which seems very cool and SHOULD have really
> been invented before Curiosity went to Mars …) but I think that there
> should be baked in support for having a view that reflects the file system
> (even if it's not always in sync and has a refresh button).
> >>
> >> Am I missing something?  Is there already such a view or do I have to
> roll my own?
> >>
> >> Thanks much
> >>
> >> Tamar Cohen
> >> NASA Ames Research Center
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