Re: Seam support in the JSP editor

[maxandersen]

> From Gavin:
> What do you guys think?
>
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-262
>
> How hard is that to implement?

Probably not insanely hard - biggest issue if we actually can scan the java code for annotations in eclipse 3.1 efficiently. Marshall - was this one of the issues you had with annotations and 3.1 or were that more in the generation of code with annotations ?

anyhow, jsp/jsf editing isn't on my todo list before feb/march where i can take a look at this.

/max

[mculpepper]

From what I remember, accessing annotations from the JDT source model was pretty lacking in Eclipse 3.1... (aka, I think you could only do it from the DOM and not the actual IJavaElement etc)

I think Eclipse 3.2 has solved this issue by making source-level annotations directly accesible from IMethod / IField / ICompilationUnit.

For convenience sake I'll post an actual link to Gavin's mentioned JIRA task:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-262

As for a direct response to Gavin's feature request -- I think that it is a great idea, but we may want to start talking about a standalone Seam IDE that would integrate this sort of functionality. Our JSP editor is no longer "ours" (i.e... integrated from WTP), so a customized Seam JSP editor would make sense in the domain of a Seam IDE sub-project. If we can get an initial feature set agreed upon, we can post the desired functionality here on the dev forums and JIRA and try to garner interest / contributors from the Seam & JBossIDE communities.

So, it's not that the functionality he's asking for is incredibally hard, only that we just don't have the resources for it at the moment, so we'll need to entice the communities =)

Gavin, does this sound like something you'd want to pursue?

[maxandersen]

Well, don't know if there should be a "full" Seam IDE for it - just adding/extending the JSP editing facilities (if possible) would be enough at least in the beginning.

[perwik]

BUMP

Did anything ever happen to this?

[maxandersen]

nope, are you voluntering ? :)

[neerajbhatt]

I am in the process of doing similar type of task.

We are working on WTP 3.0 M4 JSF editor.
Through extension points we have enhanced context menu in the relevant JSF components to browse beans and bean properties .
Once you select these beans/bean properties the underlying JSF code changes automatically.

Also we have given option in context menu to select transitions from page flow file of seam frame work.

We have created our own extension points to give above functionallity but
popupMenuContributor extension available in org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner plugin of WTP can also be used to create context menu in JSF .
Although right now popupMenuContributor is having a blocking bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=221197 .

I have submitted a patch for this bug ,once it gets commited then popupMenuContributor can be used to give same capabilities.