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RE: [ve-dev] How to generate XML instead of Java in VEP
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Hi
Joe,
However I couldn't get the XML as mentioned ..
I
tried to follow "Then in the Eclipse workbench that
gets opened opened Window->Preferences and select Java->Visual Editor.
A check box labeled "Show XML text" will be
there. "
As you
see I get the following in my IDE but no "Show XML
text" !!
The
following is the scenario I want to use VE.
1.
Supply my own Palette (predefined composites) through the xmi file
2. Let
the users use the VE to customise their Forms.
3.
When they save it , the XML is saved instead of the Java
class.
4. The
end users can then load these template forms & use it as input forms for
information.
Can
you suggest me how to get this working ?
Cheers,
Ujjwal
Hi Sinha,
The preference page option "Show XML
Text" is really a debug option that allows the ability to see the VE model
serialized as XML (it is an EMF model that serializes easy to XML). This
model is what is shown and updated by the viewers and also built by code
parsing so sometimes when things break it's useful to see the model and see
where the break is. To get the option to show the usual way is if you
are starting Eclipse from itself (i.e. with a configuration) visit the Tracing
tab of this, select tracing for org.eclipse.ve.java.core and check
debug/xmltext.
If you are starting
Eclipse and want to do this without having to use a launch configuration you
can also do this with a .options file.
Is
what you want to do make the VE so it serializes to XML and opens on XML, i.e.
has no Java code parsing and generation ? If so this is a scenario that
is supported but right now without a lot of documentation. One thing we
have kept kicking around is the idea of doing a tutorial to show how to get it
working with something like XSWT for example, or maybe the JavaBeans
XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder format. It would also help us to get the extension
points and API cleaned up if we published it as a tutorial and I think many
people would benefit from this. Is this the kind of scenario that is
close to what you want to achieve ?
Best regards,
Joe
Winchester
