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Re: [equinox-dev] Incubator commit rights for Kim Horne
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+1
Sounds like really cool stuff. Looking forward to working together with
Kim on integrating the AspectJ weaving into this broader concept.
-Martin
Jeff McAffer
> The 3.3 plan
> http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_3.html
> has an item related to customization
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154099
> Kim Horne (UI team) has been investigating some techniques for
> transforming plugin.xml files and thus the registry contributions they
> contain. Basically this amounts to a mechanism for spec'ing an XSLT style
> sheet and then running the plugin.xmls through the transformer as they are
> loaded. See
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Product_Customization
> Kim has offered to contribute this to Equinox. Pretty cool. But wait,
> it gets better.
>
> When you stand back from those details, it appears that there are several
> other things that could be "customized". Manifest.mf for one. Code for
> another. The Equinox incubator already includes a work area related to
> Aspects. The proposal here is that the scope of that work be broadened to
> include transformation of other artifacts. In addition to the specific
> transformation mechansms discussed, Kim would like to investigate a
> customization brokering service that would match transformers to
> transformations and transformees. This notion would, for example, allow
> for a manifest customization mechanism to be plugged in. Ideally we would
> also be able to phrase code customization using this mechanism. This may
> involve AspectJ weaving or some other mechanism (e.g., for mapping class
> references when packages are renamed).
>
> In any event, all of these things are in the Equinox domain and Kim is
> offering to drive at least part of this effort. To facilitate that, I
> propose adding Kim as a committer on the Equinox Incubator component.
> Please respond to this list with your votes.
>
> Jeff
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