[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Eclipse IDE (dev)] - Re: JBossCacheAop Plugin Discussion

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Ben, This sounds like it has some potential. You might also want to think about ways this could aid in the creation of a JBossCashAOP applications / projects. A standard wizard we create for all of our major plugins is a "Project Wizard" which automatically places the necessary JARs etc in the users's project for compiling and using in their application. This removes the need for them to keep track of JARs manually in their classpath.

Other things you might want to think about:
- We have a very good AOP plugin that supports a pretty good subset of AOP's functionality in eclipse. We use visual cues all over the place to deliver useful information to AOP developers. You might want to expand / extend upon some of those visual cues for Cached POJO field or method interception, as an example.
- I'm not sure how effecient or doable it is, but it's also nice in alot of cases to offer code completion wherever possible. Something that comes to mind would be for instance when looking up a POJO from the TreeCache, possibly a popup that shows all the current POJOs in the cache. This might be tough since it's runtime information, but just an idea.

I'm sure there are more things specific to CacheAop that I haven't thought of as I only know the product on the surface =).

At any rate, moving forward with discussion about the new extension, if you do decide that you want this done, do you have any ideas for who will be implementing? ATM we have our hands pretty full with the 4 of us on the IDE team. We can certainly be there to help smooth the transition etc, and give out best practices for developing with eclipse. I recommend you take a look at our developer cookbook guide to get a good feel for eclipse. It has a lot of good step-by-step examples for extending eclipse. Here's the URL:

http://jboss.org/products/jbosside/docs

Make sure to download the "Example Projects" .. it's a zip with lots of helpful source (the cookbook uses it).

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