Re: Java Project API/SPI

Jan Pokorsky wrote:
> If you look at the natures owerview 
> http://www.netbeans.org/download/prj40_prototype/javadoc/ProjectsCoreAPIs/org/netbeans/api/projects/doc-files/natures.html#Natures 
> you can find following definitions:
> 
> * natures provide a mechanism for registering extensions to a project in 
> a declarative form
> * a project nature is a XML file
> * it has a unique name and a version
> * ...
> 
> I do not think the JavaProject accomplishes them. Sorry, that I am not 
> constructive but I am not able to bring up any better name.
> 
<IMHO>
A "nature" is more like "flavour"; the term is quite generic and broad 
as it may include registration, services, templates, wizards, actions, 
... Some natures may even go without some JavaProject analogy, I think.

JavaProject is just one component of Java nature - it is (or was creates 
as) a organization model of project contents suited to java processing. 
</IMHO>

Another name could be JavaProjectPart so the name suggest it is just a 
part of a larger entity, Then we would have Project and then 
*ProjectPart - models of nature-specific organizations (c.f. Eclipse: 
Workbench vs. WorkbenchPart).

-Svata