Re: State of the Liferay Eclipse FreeMarker support?

Hey Daniel,

Yes the current debugger over JBoss FreeMarker has been released in a
milestone release.  But I ran into some difficulty extending the editor to
make it useful for Liferay template developers, it didn't scale well when I
applied it to some use-cases in our environment.  So I have stopped any
more development on it and I'm going to switch over to help work with
Angelo in the new Freemarker editor based on WTP+Freemarker
DLTK-jflex-based parser.   But the current debugger client is going into
the release.  Right now it only works for debugging Liferay theme templates
built with freemarker.
https://www.liferay.com/web/gregory.amerson/blog/-/blogs/new-release-liferay-ide-2-0-milestone-1
See this blog entry and scroll down to see the freemarker debugger
screenshots.

If anyone on the list is interested in the code for the debugger client in
Eclipse here it is:
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-ide/tree/master/common/plugins/com.liferay.ide.debug.core/src/com/liferay/ide/debug/core/fm

However, it isn't as full featured as the debugger that Angelo was talking
about building based on the dynamic debugger spec.  This one just works
with "suspend" and "resume" and (and a fake step I added which only really
works in the simplest of cases)




On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> The point of my original question was if the plugin that you have
> worked on earlier (which adds debugging over the JBoss FreeMarker
> plugin, I believe), will it make into the Liferay IDE release? And
> with what features? I'm just curious.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>
> Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 3:09:50 PM, Greg Amerson wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I'm still very interested, but like everyone else, been busy with
> > other tasks.  I hope to be able to spend some time soon to take a
> > closer look at what Angelo already has accomplished with DLTK based
> > freemarker tools.  I was able to get it all compiling and up and
> > running but I haven't looked at it further.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 1:29:27 PM, Angelo zerr wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Daniel,
> >>
> >> Daniel, I'm really sorry I was busied with my other project, I have
> >> not worked about Freemarker DLTK plugin, because I waited that Greg
> >> see if Freemarker DLTK plugin is interesting.
> >
> > Well, that he has no even more resources to participate in this matter
> > (and that's perfectly understandable, before someone reads an edge
> > into this), doesn't make a good FreeMarker plugin less interesting. If
> > it beats the JBoss one significantly, most certainly everybody will
> > start using it, including some later release of the Liferay IDE.
> >
> >> More my motivation is down because DLTK is not very active (DLTK
> >> guys are the intention to create a new version, but it seems that
> >> it's not their priority)
> >
> > So if someone starts to write an Eclipse plugin to support a dynamic
> > language (and a template language, so it should be able to mix with
> > HTML), what is his best option nowadays? Dynamic languages have become
> > important in the Java ecosystem, so I don't think the Eclipse guys
> > want to hurt the existing plugins (JavaScript, Jython and all that)
> > too much, or impede future development on that area.
> >
> >> Regards Angelo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/10/15 Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm just interested if where did this go, like if it will go to
> >> production and when.
> >>
> >> And of course, I'm sorry that I couldn't fit in more work on this
> >> field yet. It's not like I have given up anything, it's just that
> >> things for which you only have your free time can go maddeningly slow
> >> if you have a developer job and household and all that. (And of course
> >> I have other things to do with FM too that are also supposed to be
> >> high priority...)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >>  Daniel Dekany
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >  Daniel Dekany
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Greg Amerson
Liferay Developer Tools
Liferay, Inc. www.liferay.com

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