[jdt-ui-dev] Refactoring: another question about refactoring, this time

["Valentino Kyriakides" <vkyriakides@xxxxxx>]

I have another question related to Eclipse refactoring for the refactoring
team member experts.

How would you say are actually the chances to be able to adapt refactorings
for heterogenous sources with Eclipse? The keyword I have here in mind would
be "Generative Programming" and thus something, which usually wouldn't have
to be Java code at all.

For example the base input for such a fictive generator might be something
completely different, which afterwards would - during a projects build
process - be  transformed (generated) by a generator into Java
equivalent/compilable code. However, the refactoring support I have in mind
here, should of course work on the generator's heterogenous input code and
not on the generated Java code. Such a generator input format might, in it's
simplest form, looking similar to JSP code or more like a usual mathematical
expression or something else not yet defined/specified.

So my main question related to this theme is, if the Eclipse refactoring
architecture could be reused and enhanced to...or would easily allow to
support such a foreign heterogenous format?  Or the other way around asked,
is the actual Eclipse underlayed refactoring architecture actually somehow
limited/restricted to Java at all?


-Valentino