also, does anyone else use emf for modeling and has anyone tied this up to
custom jet templates?
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi All
> Don't know who uses JET but I would like to outline how I have been using
> it and asking people how they use it after that.
>
> At the moment what i do
> 1. Convert my project to a JET project
> 2. Set my JET source path = my plugin.src
> thus when i create my jet template, i get the template.java in my source
> path, which I then invoke via
> SlideViewPresentationModel emitter = new
> SlideViewPresentationModel();
> String result = emitter.generate(sv);
> where sv is a custom model of the type SlideView.
>
> My reason behind this was that I had so many problems using dynamic
> templates which i would invoke
> ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
> JETEmitter emitter = new JETEmitter(uri,loader);
> emitter.addVariable("Slide", pluginId);
> String result = emitter.generate(monitor,new Object[]{sv});
> not only due to the dynamic models which I use (solved via the custom
> classLoader) but also templates which would then output the template.java to
> my eclipse workspace .JETEmitter project and cannot be compiled from there
> (event though I had all the necesary variables). Its not that it did not
> work, but it only worked once (when the template is compiled and you create
> the new emitter it cannot override existing files!) and at other times
> pretty infrequently when i played around with settings.
>
> So the bad part of this is that I cannot update templates on the fly
> without updating the plugin, i can also not thus have a user output a
> template from the plugin - one level of abstraction too many anyway IMO.
>
> So how do other people use Jet in their plugins?
>
> Also swt sucks, big time, so slow to develop. I am considering using a
> socket to just speak to a flex app. I have concerns around the plugin
> activator livecycle and a socket, but need to do more research on this, any
> thoughts?
>
> Also has anyone polled the flex builder api for information and if so, can
> they give me a heads up around performance, my first touches on inspecting
> the availible object model went badly (you always get the whole object tree,
> no way to filter that I could figure out first off).
>
> As you can see I am a noob with plugin development and on top of that do
> not consider myself very good at java.
>
> I would like to get people who have been down some of these roads before to
> tell me what has worked and what not ideally.
>
> johan
>
> --
> j:pn
> \\no comment
>
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