Hi Nitin,

Thanks, that's very helpful. Generally, what we are looking for is an IDE
front-end because building one from scratch is obviously a lot of work. JSDT
seems to fit the bill nicely. One thing we would need is to feed AST, type
inferencing and code completion information from our tooling into it. I
haven't seen if the current architecture supports pluggable backends like
this, but I assume it shouldn't be too hard to do. The other are general UI
fixes and improvements to make sure everything works nicely.  I saw support
for debug markers on the feature list--that's another thing we want. I don't
see a counterpart of JDT's debugging UI plugin anywhere, though. Is it
something that's in store until someone asks for it?

Cheers,

--Vassili

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Nitin Dahyabhai <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Vassili,
> There's actually quite a bit going on, most of it currently focused on
> making the fundamentals as rock solid as possible and cleaning up the UI.
>  Right now that means a number of low-level adjustments to the parser and
> validation code to more closely reflect JavaScript's typing and syntax and
> smoothing out areas of the UI that still reflect its origin as a copy of
> JDT.  A number of these fixes were done for 3.0.5 and 3.1 courtesy of our
> newest committer, and he's already back at it for 3.2.  We'll also be
> tackling issues with web page integration during 3.2's development.  Time
> permitting, we'll be updating the existing OpenAJAX metadata support to the
> newer drafts and making sure our pluggable type inferrencing engine covers
> the cases our adopters have asked about.  The web site documentation is
> still an area we need to update, hopefully when my other 3.1
> responsibilities are finished.
>
> We'd love to have any contributions you're interested in making.  What were
> you interested in enhancing?
>
> Regards,
> ---
> Nitin Dahyabhai
> Eclipse WTP Source Editing
> IBM Rational
>
>
>
>  *Vassili Bykov <[email protected]>*
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> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to work on some new Javascript tooling here at Google, and
> looking if there are existing open source solutions we could build on
> (contributing parts back). JSDT is the obvious choice, but the "official"
> information online looks old and overall it doesn't look like there's much
> going on. Is anyone working on it, and how actively?
>
> Cheers,
>
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