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Bug 350070 - Investigate implementing PDE editors with hosted web applications
Summary: Investigate implementing PDE editors with hosted web applications
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.8   Edit
Assignee: PDE-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-06-22 11:46 EDT by Dean Roberts CLA
Modified: 2011-09-15 13:02 EDT (History)
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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.