RE: [stellation-res] Database Package Audit.

[Ringo De Smet <ringods@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

1)
> If we can make the command-line tool into a headless Eclipse
> executable, 

This is possible! Most of you probably know that you can append 
"-application <application.id>" when starting Eclipse. But with the
addition of "features" in Eclipse 2.0, you can specify the main
application to launch in a feature. Have a look in the following file
of your Eclipse 2.0+ distribution:

<EclipseInstallFolder>/features/org.eclipse.platform_2.0.0/feature.xml

The open tag for feature specifies that this feature is the primary
feature, together with the primary application to launch. We can create
a feature too, but with the primary application being the svc command
line tool.

2)
> and we can keep the performance of that in the same
> range as the current command line, 

Can't give an answer on this one!

3)
> and we can provide a way of
> compiling it from the command-line, then we might switch to a pure
> plugin based model. 

One can use the Ant which is bundled in Eclipse using the following
command:

"eclipse -nosplash -data some/dir/buildworkspace -application
org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -Da.property=avalue -buildfile
abuildfile
atarget"

I copied this from a message in the news archives. Never tried this
myself, but it should be possible.

> But since that involves three major steps, none
> of which are completely supported by Eclipse, that's something
> that we can't even consider right now.

Depends on what you mean by "completely supported". I think I proved
the contrary for two out of three issues.
:-)

Ringo

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