[bdbxml] Eclipse Plugins (was Re: [bdbxml] Developing a local (Swing) front-end)

I wanted to make sure this topic doesn't go dead.

I'm currently putting together two test plugins for my efforts in this area.

1.) a core db and dbxml java api plugins
2.) a win32 native platform specific db and dbxml plugin fragments.

These should form the core of what I need to begin working with dbxml in 
Eclipse. I'll probably write a couple test cases just to verify that 
everything is working.

Eclipse provides a search mechanism for loading native libraries behind 
the scenes that makes this almost idiot proof.

What is up with the project site on SF that was suggested earlier? If 
there are issues. I'd be glad to submit for a new project site 
specifically for related db/dbxml related development.

-Mark Diggory

Mark R. Diggory wrote:
> One thought I've had recently has to do with Eclipse and OSGi's ability 
> to work with native libraries in its plugins. I think we can really tie 
> together solutions for packaging BDBXML and BDB into Eclipse very 
> elegantly using this mechanism.
> 
> An Eclipse OSGi based feature for BDB and BDBXML could provide the 
> following functionality to anyone using Eclipse:
> 
> 1.) platform specific plugins: mount native libraries using OSGi 
> mechanisms to allow managing and instances of BDBXML and/or BerkelyDB 
> embedded within Eclipse, including managing your SOAP services for 
> accessing BDBXML/BDB.
> 
> 2.) client plugins: provide java API's for accessing bdbxml/bdb using 
> that above plugins, provides access to embedded or networked external 
> SOAP based services. These include the Client Java API's for bdb, bdbxml 
> bdbxml-soap, bdbxml-rpc and bdbxml-xmldb.
> 
> 3.) standards based plugins: xmldb api etc.
> 
> 4.) ui plugins: GUI interfaces are platform independent and based on XMLDB.
> 
> Thus the same above scenario could be applied to any XMLDB enabled 
> datasource by providing drivers for xmldb on the eclipse classpath.
> 
> I'd also recommend we have a good hard look at the Eclipse WTP project 
> for any web related Server/UI services we may want to provide bridges to.
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html
> 
> -Mark
> 
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