Re: [jdt-dev] Helping Developers understand and document Eclipse JDT

[Abhishek Rakshit <abhishek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for raising those questions, please find the answers below.

-- "When an Open Source developer uses Architexa to generate such diagrams,
are those diagrams tied to any license or can I redistribute them under my
desired license (e.g. EPL)? "

Quick answer, yes you can redistribute the diagrams under any desired licence.

Actually, we had not thought about this question and are trying to figure it out. We want the creator of the diagram be its owner and decide how he wants to publish it.

-- "Can the generated diagrams be included in the Eclipse doc or must they reside on codemaps.org?"

For now we have added "one-click sharing" inside the Eclipse IDE to easily upload diagrams to Codemaps and then they can be embedded anywhere you want. We look forward to hear your suggestions and would like to support any way to directly upload diagrams to the Eclipse doc.

-- "What exactly do you mean by "wanted to start rolling it out with JDT"? Do you mean start documenting JDT on codemaps.org or something different? "

We are right now trying to focus on a few projects(JDT being one of them) and want to make them really happy. We have started documenting some important concepts already and wanted to hear the thoughts from the community to make thee more helpful. 

We are not diagram fanatics but do  believe that diagrams are helpful in many situations. Our tool improved productivity when used inside the Eclipse IDE and helps the community when the knowledge is shared. If you haven't yet, please check out the short video (http://www.architexa.com/learn-more/videos/intro/video)

I hope these were helpful and will be glad to answer any other queries you might have.

Thanks,

Abhishek

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Abishek

When an Open Source developer uses Architexa to generate such diagrams,
are those diagrams tied to any license or can I redistribute them under my
desired license (e.g. EPL)? Can the generated diagrams be included in the
Eclipse doc or must they reside on codemaps.org?

What exactly do you mean by "wanted to start rolling it out with JDT"? Do
you mean start documenting JDT on codemaps.org or something different?

Dani

> Hello,
>
> I've been a big fan of the Eclipse platform and have been building tools
on top of it for a while. In the process I have had to understand the
underlying JDT code and have found myself wanting to have better resources
to do that.
>
> As such we took the initiative to help users understand the main
concepts of JDT better. We have built a site and have started putting up
diagrams explaining the main concepts of the project. You can find these
here - http://www.codemaps.org/s/Eclipse_JDT.
>
> Our motive is to make this resource available to everyone, and have made
the underlying tooling free for Open source projects. You can find more
information on this initiative here:
http://www.architexa.com/start/open-source
>
> There has been some positive feedback for the site and wanted to start
rolling it out with JDT. We are really curious to hear what the Eclipse
community thinks of CodeMaps.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Abhishek
> --
> Architexa Inc. - www.architexa.com
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> abhishek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

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