Hi, I'm very interested in the idea of generating Java EE applications with Eclipse RCP front-end and would like to know what is the current state of this (hopefully) ongoing work.
My current task is to develop a prototype application with RCP technology and Java EE back-end. I've already tried some MDSD tools and found Sculptor very interesting, not at last due to the good Eclipse IDE integration. The back-end part works pretty well with most tools. Same goes for the front-end as long as you are happy with a web app... But if you want to generate RCP applications (especially the redundant CRUD parts of it) you're currently on your own. I think the most "painful" thing about manually developing an RCP application for a generated backend built with Maven is the dependency management. Fortunately, there is an article about http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Eclipse-and-Maven2/index.html Building Eclipse Plugins with Maven 2 . While I'm rather new at doing MDSD, I have several years of experience with Eclipse and might be able to participate here some way. I'd already find it really great if there were at least something similiar to the basic web CRUD for Eclipse RCP. Martin Patrik Nordwall wrote: > > Hi, > > We have evolved the GUI metamodel when implementing the 1.3 version of > Sculptor. We are satisfied with the result. The task based approach was a > good decision. > > Have you been able to continue your work with RCP generation? I'm curious > because I have recently been working with a RCP app myself. No code > generation yet, but I see a lot of potential of using code generation > combined with eclipse extension mechanism. > > /Patrik > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-add-gui-generation-tp14695768s17564p16224648.html Sent from the Fornax-Platform mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fornax-developer mailing list Fornax-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer
