Re: Java Project API/SPI

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:42, Pavel Buzek wrote:
> Ok, I admit that JavaNature may not be perfect either. JavaProjectPart 
> sounds ok to me.
> 
> -pavel
I don't see any reason for such an artificial name like JavaProjectPart.
JavaNature is a bit better, however JavaProject probably describe
in the best way its purpose.
Tomas
> 
> Svatopluk Dedic wrote:
> > 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
> > 
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