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Compatibility layer E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551670] Mon, 09 August 2010 06:39 Go to next message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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Hi,

Compatibility layer is, for now, available in eclipse CVS. There is no release about that... And make a E4 application including old plug-ins with contributing UI is convoluted (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Compatibility/Running_the_compati bility_layer). Compatibility layer seems not to be meant to be used by eclipse application developpers...

When will it be possible to include old plug-ins in E4 application in a good way ?

Chris.

[Updated on: Mon, 09 August 2010 06:40]

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551680 is a reply to message #551670] Mon, 09 August 2010 07:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
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Hi,

Not sure which compat layer you are talking about because in fact there
are 2:
* org.eclipse.ui.workbench: The backwards compat layer which allows 3.x
plug-ins to live in an 4.x application
* org.eclipse.e4.tools.compat: A forward compat layer which allows to
run 4.x components in an 3.x application

The only way to run your old plug-ins in an 4.0 Application is to
inculde org.eclipse.ui.workbench and modify your project like described
in this bug [1].

On the release of those 2 bundles:
* org.eclipse.ui.workbench is the part of the 4.0 SDK so that JDT/PDE
runs unmodified => Probably what you want

* org.eclipse.e4.tools.compat is part of the ModelTooling feature to
enable running the modeltooling in 3.x SDK, 4.x SDK and 4.0
Application Platform => currently only driven by my personal needs in
the ModelTooling space and so not very feature rich yet.

Tom

[1]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317912

Am 09.08.10 08:39, schrieb Chris:
> Hi,
>
> Compatibility layer is, for now, available in eclipse CVS. There is no
> release about that... And make a E4 application including old plug-ins
> with contributing UI is convoluted. Compatibility layer seems not to be
> meant to be used by eclipse application developpers...
>
> When will it be possible to include old plug-ins in E4 application in
> a good way ?
> Chris.

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551728 is a reply to message #551680] Mon, 09 August 2010 11:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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I was interested in :
* org.eclipse.ui.workbench is the part of the 4.0 SDK so that JDT/PDE
runs unmodified

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551756 is a reply to message #551728] Mon, 09 August 2010 13:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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It works !

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551784 is a reply to message #551756] Mon, 09 August 2010 14:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
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Hi Chris,

That sounds good. Please note that there are probably still things
missing because the main focus for 4.0 was to have the SDK (JDT/PDE)
running so there might be missing things for RCP-Applications.

Tom

Am 09.08.10 15:18, schrieb Chris:
> It works !

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551900 is a reply to message #551784] Tue, 10 August 2010 05:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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Hi Tom,

Ok for the limitations. My application is tiny so I don't think it will be a problem... I hope !

I have a little question about how works this compatibility layer. I am a bit curious ! Does this layer scan contributions and update EMF model according to ? Does the compatibilty is an adapter between old mechanism based on contributions and new mechanism based on EMF model ?

I had a look at LegacyIDE.e4xmi but I didn't really understand...

Thank you.

Chris.

[Updated on: Tue, 10 August 2010 05:58]

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #551955 is a reply to message #551900] Tue, 10 August 2010 09:12 Go to previous message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
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Hi,

Well the compat-layer is translating everything coming in through
extension points (views,editors,menus,...) into the our application
model but not only those things - those done programmatically e.g. in
the ActionBarAdvisor, Perspective-Factories are translated into our
EMF-Model. Looking at the LegacyIDE.e4xmi is less interesting because
the above translation is happing at runtime.

I'm myself not really familiar with the inner workings of the
compat-layer so I can't give you more detailed informations :-)

If you are interested in what all those things result into and you have
the E4 Tooling installed you can hit: ALT+SHIFT+F9 and a dialog will
popup showing you the complete workbench model making up your currently
running IDE (you can even make modifications and/or observe how the
model changes when you work with the Eclipse 4.0 Workbench).

Tom

Am 10.08.10 07:57, schrieb Chris:
> Hi Tom,
> Ok for the limitations. My application is tiny so I don't think it will
> be a problem... I hope !
> I have a little question about how works this compatibility layer. I am
> a bit curious ! Does this layer scan contributions and update EMF model
> according to ? Does the compatibilty is an adpater between old mechanism
> based on contributions and new mechanism based on EMF model ?
>
> I had a look at LegacyIDE.e4xmi but I didn't really understand...
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chris.
>
>

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #580216 is a reply to message #551680] Mon, 09 August 2010 11:24 Go to previous message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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I was interested in :
* org.eclipse.ui.workbench is the part of the 4.0 SDK so that JDT/PDE
runs unmodified

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #580235 is a reply to message #580216] Mon, 09 August 2010 13:18 Go to previous message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
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It works !

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #580278 is a reply to message #551756] Mon, 09 August 2010 14:12 Go to previous message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
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Hi Chris,

That sounds good. Please note that there are probably still things
missing because the main focus for 4.0 was to have the SDK (JDT/PDE)
running so there might be missing things for RCP-Applications.

Tom

Am 09.08.10 15:18, schrieb Chris:
> It works !

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #580296 is a reply to message #551784] Tue, 10 August 2010 05:57 Go to previous message
Chris is currently offline Chris Friend
Messages: 16
Registered: July 2010
Junior Member
Hi Tom,

Ok for the limitations. My application is tiny so I don't think it will be a problem... I hope !

I have a little question about how works this compatibility layer. I am a bit curious ! Does this layer scan contributions and update EMF model according to ? Does the compatibilty is an adpater between old mechanism based on contributions and new mechanism based on EMF model ?

I had a look at LegacyIDE.e4xmi but I didn't really understand...

Thank you.

Chris.

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Re: Compatibility E4 RCP and old plugins ? [message #580329 is a reply to message #580296] Tue, 10 August 2010 09:12 Go to previous message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
Messages: 6599
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Hi,

Well the compat-layer is translating everything coming in through
extension points (views,editors,menus,...) into the our application
model but not only those things - those done programmatically e.g. in
the ActionBarAdvisor, Perspective-Factories are translated into our
EMF-Model. Looking at the LegacyIDE.e4xmi is less interesting because
the above translation is happing at runtime.

I'm myself not really familiar with the inner workings of the
compat-layer so I can't give you more detailed informations :-)

If you are interested in what all those things result into and you have
the E4 Tooling installed you can hit: ALT+SHIFT+F9 and a dialog will
popup showing you the complete workbench model making up your currently
running IDE (you can even make modifications and/or observe how the
model changes when you work with the Eclipse 4.0 Workbench).

Tom

Am 10.08.10 07:57, schrieb Chris:
> Hi Tom,
> Ok for the limitations. My application is tiny so I don't think it will
> be a problem... I hope !
> I have a little question about how works this compatibility layer. I am
> a bit curious ! Does this layer scan contributions and update EMF model
> according to ? Does the compatibilty is an adpater between old mechanism
> based on contributions and new mechanism based on EMF model ?
>
> I had a look at LegacyIDE.e4xmi but I didn't really understand...
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chris.
>
>

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