Hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.04.2008, 15:55 -0500 schrieb Craig L. Ching: > 3) Does anyone have any thoughts on how they'd like to see properties > vs. children (e.g. does everyone agree that the way the Eclipse browser > works is a good model for this? Or are there certain things that should > be done differently? I have to admit, I'm not real fond of the Eclipse > plugin's structure, but maybe I don't completely understand it either). > I'm sort of of the opinion that properties should not be in the tree, > the tree should only contain nodes and the properties should be in a > separate pane when a node is selected in the tree.
I understand, that you don't like how the Eclipse plugin does it. But the scope is different. You are talking about a JCR Explorer which controls the complete contents of your window. In this case it totally makes sense to adhere to the conventions known from the windows explorer. For the Eclipse plugin, the case is different: I adhere to the Eclipse Navigator view, which merges folders and files. Nevertheless, I agree, that it might be too much to list all properties in the same tree as the nodes. On the other hand, it is sometimes usefull. Still I am considering new ways of doing this. In addition, I am also considering reworking the whole plugin as since its inception, I have gained many new insights, which should influence a new/better implementation. In particular it would be neat to just show the JCR tree but also the Resource tree. This would also be on my wish-list from the POV of Sling: Not only a pure JCR Explorer (which has its own right, absolutely undisputed) but a Resource Explorer, which shows the complete Resource Tree as available through the ResourceResolver. Regards Felix
