Hi (again),

The project below is made possible by JNIPort. Thanks, Joachim!

Cheers,
Doru


On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to announce the jdt2famix project. This aims to be an
> open-source solution for importing Java projects into Moose:
> http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Moose/Jdt2Famix
>
> The project is based on:
> - JDT for raw parsing. This is implemented in Java.
> - JNIPort for delegating to Pharo the Java methods that visit the Java AST.
>
> Installation details can be found on the main project page.
>
> The current importing logic is rudimentary, but the first goal was to
> setup the whole ping-pong between Pharo and Java. This one works, and I am
> quite happy about that. You can take a look at the JdtImporterTest.
>
> CAVEATS:
> - Due to a problem in JNIPort, currently, this project only works in Moose
> 5.0.
> - Also, for now it works out of the box only for Mac OS X.
> - And, on top of that, it requires Java 1.6 for now (until we will get the
> Spur VM on 64 bits).
>
> There are still quite some challenges left, but once we get this going, we
> would also be able to use deep AST analysis live, and to do incremental
> model update when something changes on disk. Furthermore, if it scales,
> this would not be based on an intermediary MSE file anymore.
>
> I would like to ask for help in several directions:
> 1. Implement the full model import. This would require diving into JDT and
> implementing the corresponding mapping logic. I spent a few days on this.
> It is hairy, but it is not that impossible (only it has a ton of edge
> cases). This should be test driven, in that, for each case, we need to have
> a corresponding sample.
> 2. Fix JNIPort to work in Pharo 5.
> 3. Get the whole thing to work out of the box for Linux and Windows.
> 4. Check scalability.
>
> Please let me know your opinions, and let me know if you would like to
> participate.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Every thing has its own flow"
>



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