I thought that it was time to start a new thread for this topic since the original one was up to 15 posts and was kind of hijacked anyway. :-)
To sum things up so far. Michaël and Sunburned seem to be interested in making OpenJumps GUI configurable by using an external XML file. I am mostly interested in using the already existing workbench-properties.xml to allow lib/ext plugins to be added without the necessity of creating an Extension. It has been an interesting discussion so far, but to make it productive I think we clearly need to define some terms more rigorously. In particular the term plugIn (or plug-in since spell checkers don't understand camelCase). As you all know, practically every feature in JUMP is implemented as a plug-in. I count about 60 of them instantiated at the top of JUMPConfiguration alone. These plug-in are sometimes lumped in with what we call the "core" of JUMP. They provide the basic UI and feature set. Let us call these plug-ins "core plug-ins". Then there are the plug-ins that are external to the particular JUMP flavor that reside in the lib/ext folder. These plug-in have UI installation code present in their initialize() method which is called by their own Extension class. Let us call these "add-on plug-ins". As I mentioned, my goal is to use the workbench-properties.xml file as it is used in the development environment - as a means of instantiating add-on plug-ins. However, I have no objection to the idea of replacing the JUMPConfiguration class with another one that uses a different external XML file to both instantiate and configure the UI for a core plug-in. This should be fairly easy to do since JUMPConfiguration.initializeBuildTnPlugIns() already uses reflection to build a list of plug-ins. All that is required is some UI glue code and an XML format and reader. hope this clears up the discussion, regards, Larry Becker -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
