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friends of e4.ui...? [message #967095] Thu, 01 November 2012 09:39 Go to previous message
Stephan Herrmann is currently offline Stephan Herrmann
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Until recently, I was affected by the Eclipse 4 UI only as an end-user (with all the issues discussed elsewhere).

Yesterday I worked on a requirement that sounds like a perfect candidate to get my hands dirty on the new API: a command to open an editor into a specific part stack which is not the editor area.

I was quite surprised to find myself walking in discouraged areas: literally all the new "API" I'm using isn't actually API, all have "x-friends" lists and since I'm not listed as a friend I'm told that I'm not welcomed to use these packages.

Having coined notions like "gradual encapsulation" [1] and even "decapsulation" [2] I'm not utterly scared by using a few classes & methods that I wasn't expected to. But seeing the entire wealth of o.e.e4.ui.workbench and o.e.e4.ui.model.workbench behind fences ("private party - by invitation only") makes me feel I'm walking the wrong alley.

What's the message behind these x-friends declarations?
- these models shouldn't be used programmatically?
- these API are not yet finalized? (schedule?)
- nobody working on this cares about API cleanness, the x-friends are simply forgotton remnants of the days of incubation?
- these parts of the Eclipse SDK are actually still in incubation?

As usual I'm happy the technology allows me to ignore the restrictions, but - as usual - I'm very much interested in learning about the intention behind those fences.

cheers,
Stephan


[1] http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_12/article3.pdf
[2] http://www.objectteams.org/def/1.3/s3.html#s3.4

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