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RE: [stellation-res] Database Package Audit.

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> >Chu-Carroll
> >Sent: September 13, 2002 5:31 AM
> >To: stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [stellation-res] Database Package Audit.
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:00, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> >>  --- "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > You are absolutely correct. One of the necessary steps for the
> >> > november deadline is tying in to the Eclipse resource model and Java
> >> > internal representation.
> >>
> >> Does this mean that there wouldn't be a Stellation core anymore that
> >> runs without parts of Eclipse? Not that I would mind, just to
> >> understand what direction you want to go in.
> >
> >No. It means that the *fine-grained* support components for *Java*
> >will not run outside of Eclipse. The  plan is for the core to
> >*always* be usable as a standalone, command-line tool.
> >
> >If we can make the command-line tool into a headless Eclipse
> >executable, and we can keep the performance of that in the same
> >range as the current command line, and we can provide a way of
> >compiling it from the command-line, then we might switch to a pure
> >plugin based model. 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.

For what it's worth, the section "Compiling Java code" in the JDT Plug-in
Developer Guide shows how to invoke the Eclipse compiler from within an Ant
script.


> >
> >So, for the indefinite future, the core will remain Eclipse free. But
> >most of the extension components that Jim and I will be working on
> >will be Eclipse specific. (I think Dave is going to be working on
> >core extensions that don't use Eclipse.)
> >
> >	-Mark


Regards

Jonathan

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