Re: [Hibernate] Eclipse plugin for Hibernate

[Daniel B. <db...@bi...>]

I have recently skilled up on Eclipse 2 plugin and SWT architecture 
(playing with a Subversion plugin) . Maybe I could have a look at it to 
see I can get my head around it?



Jozsa Kristof wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I wonder if anyone's interested in the development of an Eclipse plugin for
>Hibernate. A couple of weeks ago I sketched the base of such a plugin, which
>is able to generate the skeleton of a mapping file for the class opened in
>the active editor window. I've discussed quickly with Gavin at that time,
>and he basically doubled its functionality, so it detects now relations
>too.. I promised I'll develop the code further, but now I clearly turned
>out, that I don't have the time for doing further development on that plugin
>:( It's particularly useful even in its current state, but sure it could
>sport many more features. (We do have ONE known bug too, which needs to be
>fixed :)
>
>I do that announcement (or whatever you call it) cos I already passed the
>code for a couple of people, who requested it on irc, and they did find it
>quite useful.. but it cannot be released without a maintainer, who really
>cares about it, and who has some free time which can be donated to this
>development - and unfortunately I cannot afford this atm :(
>
>So, if anyone is interested in developing that plugin, I'd love to give the
>code over to a new maintainer.. 
>
>It'd also be discussed, whether we should stay on Eclipse's reflection
>classes on class' property detection, or rather should drop that, and move
>to the track used by the current command line tools..
>
>
>An old screenshot of the plugin in action can be seen at (check the right
>side of the shot): 
>http://ond.vein.hu/~dyn/hibernator.png
>
>The current snapshot (Gavin's version) can be found at:
>http://ond.vein.hu/~dyn/hibernator-gk.tar.gz
>
>
>Regards,
>Christopher
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