Eclipse plug-in for Servoy plug-in and bean developers

Classic Servoy
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Currently we have a set of our own in-house tools to take a little bit of the burden off of creating plug-ins and beans.

Tasks these tools perform are:

  • copy Servoy code and convert it into a StringBuffer to paste it as Sample Code;
  • extract all methods and properties for Servoy and auto-create API methods for later finishing.
  • where available read existing API methods and combine them with new ones.
  • extract/create the above from an external API file as well;
  • write back API methods into existing or new file;
  • create documentation file from API methods including method/property name, tooltip, sample code and arguments.

Right now we estimated that they save us between 2 hours (smaller project) up to over 8 hours (large project) of work per project.

We could put these all into an Eclipse plug-in and make them commercially available. Obviously this would also involve some adjustments to make them more user friendly, also read other formatted source and probably some preference settings as well.

Before we start doing so, we would like to know if anybody would be interested in such a plug-in.
Maybe including some other goodies…

Please let us know via sales at it2be dot com.

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Absolutely Agree to have three plugins:

Servoy-Client-Plugin
Servoy-Server-Plugin
Servoy-Developer-Plugin

And I guess you are a master creating such plugins :wink:

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Absolutely Agree to have three plugins:

Servoy-Client-Plugin
Servoy-Server-Plugin
Servoy-Developer-Plugin

And I guess you are a master creating such plugins :wink:

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Hi Mohamad,

I don’t really understand what you mean:

Absolutely Agree to have three plugins:

Servoy-Client-Plugin
Servoy-Server-Plugin
Servoy-Developer-Plugin

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Hi Marcel,

What I have understand from your post, is that you are going to create an Eclipse Plugin that aids in creating a Servoy Plugin.

If this is true, please consider the creation of a 3 Eclipse Plugins:

First one is to aid building normal plugins as mentioned in http://www.servoy.com/generic.jsp?mt=396&taxonomy_id=571
Second one is to aid building Servoy Server Plugins as mentioned in HOW TO: Create Server-Side Plugins - Classic Servoy - Servoy Community
The third one is a to aid building developer plugins

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OK, well I could do that but that is not foreseen.
I think it is quite easy to create a plug-in from a template you make only once.

What I meant with the post is that, once all methods are created, the plug-in will create all IScriptObject API methods like the getSample, getParameterNames and getToolTip.

But your suggestion is a nice one. Let’s see if others react to it as well.

As said in the original post, I have all mentioned stuff in place already but I need to make the plug-in so that it is interesting for others as well.
When enough people are interested to buy such a plug-in I will give it some energy, when not it will not make it to the market very soon…

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Hi Marcel,

Sorry for the miss-understanding and I am happy that you got my point.
However, the feature that you are talking about is really good.