Re: Next steps [Was Re: Flattened relationship support]

From: Craig Miskell (cmiskel..lbatross.co.nz)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 15:07:08 EST

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    Fair enough. I'll put that idea to the very very bottom of my list :-)

    Craig
    On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:26, Andrus wrote:
    > At 02:04 PM 11/17/2002 +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
    > >Craig Miskell wrote:
    > > > I'd like to see an eclipse modeller plugin, with class generation tied
    > > > directly into an eclipse project. But that's just me, and I don't have
    > >
    > >nope :-)
    > >One of my first thoughts after I saw the MVCification of the Modeler.
    > >
    > > > the resources to do it just yet. (Cant' justify it during work time, and
    > > > my machine at home struggles along just running eclipse, let alone running
    > > > an embedded eclipse for debugging a plugin :-( )
    >
    >
    > This whole IDE issue made me totally upset just a few weeks ago. On the one
    > hand we needed to evolve it and make it more powerful, on the other hand
    > continued development in Swing felt like a dead end. Finally I figured we
    > have no choice but continue with Swing. So I started the MVC effort for the
    > new screens and dialogs. In short, it is a bit messy now.
    >
    > As for switching to Eclipse, history shows that there must be a person
    > dedicated exclusively to the plugin development for this to happen. This is
    > how it happened in WOProject/WOLips (thanks to Ulrich), same thing is true
    > with Tapestry. Eclipse GUI development looks like a big piece to bite when
    > also working on the core Cayenne code :-(.
    >
    > I think we can't abandon Swing Modeler until someone expresses the desire
    > to lead an Eclipse project and moves at least to a point when you can do
    > complete model editing. As for Holger's concerns about quickly changing
    > versions of Cayenne and Eclipse, I suspect this is always going to happen
    > in one form or another.
    >
    > Andrus
    >



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