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Bug 350070

Summary: Investigate implementing PDE editors with hosted web applications
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Dean Roberts <dean.t.roberts>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: cgold, curtis.windatt.public, pwebster
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: 3.8   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Dean Roberts CLA 2011-06-22 11:46:03 EDT 
Look at what is involved in implementing the PDE editors as web applications hosted in an SWT Browser widget with tight integration with the Eclipse workbench.

If successful, such a strategy would allow the deprecation of UI Forms, a largely unsupported code base (due to resource constraints).

Rationals for pursuing this course of action can be found in a requirements work item.  (I'll post a link when the item is created).  

There is also discussion of this topic on the wiki entry here: 

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Deprecating_UI_Forms

As suggested, the first editor being considered is the Table of Contents editor.
Comment 1 Curtis Windatt CLA 2011-09-15 13:02:50 EDT 
This was a neat idea, but not one that we have time for in 3.8.  If someone is interested in this work, it should be moved to the incubator.