Re: Libraries API

Svata Dedic <[email protected]> Thu, 29 May 2003 21:26:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
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Petr Kuzel wrote:
> Svata Dedic wrote:
> 
> So it's about the NetBeans extensibility interface features.
> It (registered providers) could decide according to project resource
> lookup content. Just guess, I do not know the NetBeans extensibility
> interface, I hear the term for the first time. Do you mean 

Sorry, bad wording - I rather meant a way in the framework that permits 
to extend existing entities. For example ProjectEnvironmentProvider for 
ProjectMembers, some similar Provider used in the new DataSystems, Looks 
for the presentation, ...

> with its aspects API proposed by Yarda? Anyway I do not see
> difference between extending a Jar library resource and an external
> library resource.
> 
Is it possible for a VolumeProvider to just add something to the library 
's Lookup content even if the Provider does not have its own content in 
the library ? In the example, the doc Provider knows something, but that 
knowledge may not be necessarily stored in the library.


-Svata