[dsdp-tm-dev] Re: ISV docs - propertyPages and popupMenus

[David McKnight <dmcknigh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

I removed them although I did point
to the examples to indicate how one should make contributions via the standard
eclipse extension points.  Whether standard eclipse extension points
should be described was a question I kept in mind but I'm not sure I have
time to do right away.   As you point out, there are attributes ISVs
can use for their filtering with different RSE objects.  Regardless
of my change, I'm not sure those are adequately described in the original
documentation so perhaps there ought to be a new enhancement request for
listing all such attributes in the docs.

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"Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

12/02/2007 09:18 AM

To	David McKnight/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
cc	"Target Management developer discussions" <dsdp-tm-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	ISV docs - propertyPages and popupMenus

Hi Dave,

I noticed that when updating the ISV docs for the
removed extension points propertyPages and popupMenus,
you decided to get rid of the corresponding tutorials
as well:

[172651] isv docs updated with removal of rse popup menus and rse
property pages extension points
- guide/plugin/popup.html
- guide/plugin/propertypage.html
- guide/tutorial/popup.html
- guide/tutorial/propertypage.html

I find this problematic, since the addition of popup
menus and property pages is an important use case.
Also, we still offer API to support this:

- SystemBasePropertyPage  

- IActionFilter (supported through ISystemViewActionFilter,
  AbstractSystemViewAdapter) --> attributes:
  - name  (supports * at end)
  - type
  - hasChildren
  - connected
  - offline
  - systemType  (names separated by ;)
  - subsystemFactoryId  (ss configuration id separated by ;)
  - subsystemFactoryCategory  (ss category separated by ;)

These should all be documented. Therefore, I believe we should 
keep the ISV docs you removed, and just rewrite them to reference 
the Platform extension points except of the RSE specific ones.

Comments from the Team?

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm