Re: [eclipse-dev] WinFX and Eclipse

[Steve Northover <Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It means yet another port, sometime
in the future, depending on the success of WinFX.

"Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx> Sent by: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/03/2003 01:45 PM Please respond to eclipse-dev

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The next major version of Windows will support a new
programming API called WinFX. Between RCP and SWT, Eclipse is on the cutting
edge of Java clients that support full native capabilities, especially
on Windows. But not counting projects like IKVM.NET, I don't see anyone
addressing .NET interoperability (and by association, WinFX).

In the WinInfo newsletter, Paul Thurrott writes: "WinFX is a complete
replacement for the Win32 API that developers target today... WinFX also
exposes other new functionality in Longhorn, including the WinFS storage-engine
capabilities, the Aero UX, the Avalon graphics engine, and the Indigo Web
services". Win32 will continue to be supported (so Eclipse will keep
running) but it sounds like one would need to use the new APIs to get to
the new functionality. So this seems like it will be important going forward
in order to continue to create native-looking and -working clients with
the Eclipse/RCP code base.

My question is: has anyone thought about what this will mean for Eclipse
and Java, and what changes will be needed to exploit the new APIs for both
the Core and the UI?

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