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An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #805876]

Fri, 24 February 2012 08:49

sandy e

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Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

Hi,

I need to write an eclipse plugin which can generate some java source code for me.

My requirement is the following.

1) When right click on the project explorer, in should give me a new menu, like "GWT"

2) The menu can have sub menus like "Create Stub", etc.

3) Upon clicking the sub menu, a wizard need to be popped up, where in we can enter the package name, class name etc.

4) Upon Clicking finish of the wizard I need to genereate the java source code.

Can some tell me how I can acheive this or atleast point me to some good tutorials which can help me out.

I googled it but I am not able to get a perfect tutorial.

Thanks,
Sandy

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Re: An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #807971 is a reply to message #805876]

Mon, 27 February 2012 08:45

Albert Hofkamp

Messages: 41
Registered: August 2009

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Dear Sandy,

As you have discovered, there is no tutorial that describes exactly which button to click,for every problem that someone might have.
If we had that, we could probably stop programming ourselves alltogether.

In the same way, programming is more complicated than "google, copy/paste first hit, done".

Consider each point that you have as a separate problem, and try to solve it.
Then glue the code of each part together into one program.

I am quite sure your google journey gave you some starting points from which you can start.
Try the example, read the code until you fully understand why it works the way it does, and in particular, read the documentation of the classes that you use to see whether other useful methods exist.

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Re: An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #814433 is a reply to message #807971]

Tue, 06 March 2012 12:53

sandy e

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Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

Hi Albert,

First of all thanks for replying to me. What I need to know is where can I get a good guide which explains how to write a plugin of the sort of my requirement. You can leave the programming part to me. I dont want anyone to bother too much about the programming part. Bcoz I have been doing it for years now. I am new to eclipse platform and web side of the computer world. I googled a lot, I got some tutorials, using which I was able to create a view plugin which does some part of my work. Code generation I will use either jet template or velocity.

My point of concern is how to create a plugin which can be shown when I right click on the package explorer of eclipse. If you know it, please post it here. I dont want to see any generic comments, like you can google it Smile

that any body can suggest. If someone post something into forum, I beleive, bare minimum he/she would/should have done some basic study.

Regards,
Sandy

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Re: An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #814488 is a reply to message #814433]

Tue, 06 March 2012 14:04

Harutyun Arzumanian

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Registered: February 2012

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Hello Sandy, all these can be done, don't worry (I did a program that does all these).
To put you on the right track read the following posts:
1.Unleashing-the-Power-of-Refactoring
2.msg_245682
3.is-there-any-eclipse-refactoring-api-that-i-can-call-programmatically

[Updated on: Thu, 08 March 2012 12:19]

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Re: An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #816002 is a reply to message #814488]

Thu, 08 March 2012 09:53

sandy e

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Registered: February 2012

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Thank you so much Harutyun....
I will go through the posts. Once I complete it probably I will post the step by step details here... No one else should go through this pain again Smile

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Re: An Eclipse Plugin for GWT code generation [message #816040 is a reply to message #816002]

Thu, 08 March 2012 10:49

Albert Hofkamp

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Registered: August 2009

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I just had to make an extension to the menu as well.
The eclipse term for these things is 'popupMenus', and they are also called 'contextMenus'.
One site I find very useful is http@:/@/www.vogella.de/tutorials.html (remove the @ to get a real url) which has several articles about extending eclipse with your own applications.

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