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Bug 302754

Summary:	Tools for application assembly
Product:	[Eclipse Project] e4	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Boris Bokowski <bokowski>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	remy.suen, tom.schindl, yves.yang
Version:	1.0	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	1.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:	304584
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Description John Arthorne

2010-02-12 14:10:41 EST

We will provide design tools to support assembling and laying out e4 applications. This will allow authoring and customization of the application's model without requiring knowledge of the underlying programming and modeling technologies.

Comment 1 Eric Moffatt

2010-04-12 16:25:31 EDT

What type of tooling do you see this entailing ?

Comment 2 Yves YANG

2010-04-12 18:46:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> What type of tooling do you see this entailing ?
My understanding is an extensible and component-based tool that enables to build an application by connecting the UI components via GUI or directly by DnD.

Comment 3 Yves YANG

2010-04-12 18:48:44 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > What type of tooling do you see this entailing ?
> My understanding is an extensible and component-based tool that enables to
> build an application by connecting the UI components via GUI or directly by
> DnD.
It is the goal of the integration of our two designers: e4 and XWT Visual Designers.

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2010-04-13 09:59:02 EDT

I think the two efforts that currently fall into this category are the e4 Designer work, and Tom's form-based model editor.

Comment 5 Eric Moffatt

2010-04-13 12:52:14 EDT

OK, I was thinking that this might be special tooling to allow product integrators to assemble packages of e4 functionality, picking from a list of available commands/views/editors/trim elements...

We should at least start thinking about this since it's a pain point for current product integration teams using eclipse (this is what the Mule folks were trying to do).

Comment 6 John Arthorne

2010-04-13 13:43:41 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> OK, I was thinking that this might be special tooling to allow product
> integrators to assemble packages of e4 functionality, picking from a list of
> available commands/views/editors/trim elements...

I think this is what Tom's model editor does. Are there aspects other than the model itself that you think need tooling support?

Comment 7 John Arthorne

2010-07-28 15:34:36 EDT

This plan item was committed for the July 2010 release. This release includes a form-based model editor, as well as an e4 workbench visual design tool.