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PDT Team, Some of you may have noticed the project declaration e-mail
for the Faceted Project Framework. I’d like to take a few moments to
explicitly reach out to the PDT community in order to explore adoption
possibilities. So what is Faceted Project Framework? It is a technology that
was developed in Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project to make it easier for
third parties building tools on top of WTP to extend WTP projects. For those
familiar with project natures, facets can be thought of as natures that users
can easily add and remove via provided UI. Prior to creation of this framework,
third parties that extended WTP often created custom project wizards or “Enable
function X” actions. The framework significantly reduced the amount of
work that was necessary in order to extend WTP projects and improved user
experience by providing common way for managing project extensions. So what does this have to do with PDT? Well, the goal for
creating the independent Faceted Project Framework project is to encourage
broader adoption by making it easier and more natural for other parties to
consume this technology. Is there any interest on the part of the PDT team to
investigate adopting this technology in order to make it easier for people to
build on top of PDT? I am hoping that I can interest several projects to get
involved early on in order to validate the generality of API and to make sure
that use cases that have not come up in the context of WTP are addressed. You can get a pretty good overview of the framework by
scanning through the referenced tutorial. Project Proposal: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/fproj/ Newsgroup: http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.fproj Tutorial: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-BuildingProjectFacets/tutorial.html Thanks for your time, - Konstantin
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