It can be taken as a Eclipse plunge-in, but i think if i hole it as a open source project under SCXML, it is more reasonable
2010/3/31 Jacob Beard <jbea...@cs.mcgill.ca> > No takers at Eclipse? > > Jake > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:42 AM, xunlong gui <ustbco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been using Apache Commons SCXML Engine for more than two years,Now >> i >> have an idea to improve it, and I wanted to post it and see if there would >> be any interest in it in the Apache SCXML community. If possible, i want >> to >> hold it as a GSoC(url:http://socghop.appspot.com/< >> http://socghop.appspot.com/>) >> >> open source project. >> The basic idea of the project is to create a Eclipse based visual editor >> and >> debugger for SCXML which can also generate SCXML statechart to Java code. >> >> State Chart XML (SCXML) is currently a Working Draft published by the >> World >> Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SCXML provides a generic state-machine based >> execution environment based on Harel State Tables. SCXML is a candidate >> for >> the control language within multiple markup languages coming out of the >> W3C.It is very useful to handler complex status transfer logic,but if a >> SCXML file is really so huge and complex,it will become too difficult to >> maintain and refactor or to test its logic validity. >> >> This project is to develop a Eclipse plunge-in visual editor which is >> capable of showing a graphical representation of the process model and >> allows for adding breakpoints to activities, variable modifications and >> managing the debugging process for SCXML.I have already done some work on >> both SCXML and Eclipse GMF,even i tried to implement a SCXML editor using >> GMF and got a little achievement,so i want to develop this editor with GMF >> and have enough confidence to finish it. >> Usually,State Chart XML file will be running on a SCXML engine(for >> example, >> our Apache Commons SCXML),if some one only want to achieve the SCXML >> file's >> business logic,but do not want to or can not use some SCXML engine due to >> licence problem etc,this tool can export SCXML file's logic to executeable >> Java code which has the same state logic translation with the SCXML file. >> >> This is my mainly idea,if anyone has any questions or comments, or would >> be >> interested in mentoring this project, please let me know. Thanks. >> >> Gui >> > >
