On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Ellen Ning Zhao wrote:
Hi,
today I downloaded the latest Jess 7.0 ga. The reteview eclipse
plugin is not present in the feature.xml. I edited the feature.xml
and now the reteview is back in eclipse. But why it's not
configured as a default plugin in the 7.0 ga? Is the reteview
plugin no longer under development or?
If a single plugin listed as part of a feature doesn't load, then
the whole feature doesn't load. The Rete Network plugin requires the
Graph Editing Framework to be installed, or it won't load. The GEF isn't
installed by default, so for many JessDE users, the Jess feature
wouldn't
load just because this minor plugin wasn't available. I didn't want
to force
users to install the GEF. Therefore the Rete Network plugin was removed
from the feature -- although it's still available from the "Show
View" menu, as
it always has been.
For those folks who don't know what an Eclipse "feature" is -- it's
just the
thing that makes the little "Jess" button in the "About Eclipse SDK"
dialog. The
change we're talking about is that in the plugin list you can get by
pushing that
button, the Rete Network plugin doesn't appear. Not an earth-
shattering item.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154
Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234
PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Livermore, CA 94550 http://www.jessrules.com
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