Spaces/Spi/ProviderSpi

How can Eclipse Spaces be extended?

It is possible to extend Eclipse Spaces in the following ways:

• Adding a Space Provider - this is done when there is a need to add a new way of accessing a space
• Adding UI specific for a Space Provider implementation
• Adding a Publishing Operation - this is done when a new way of writing artifacts into a space is needed
• Adding UI specific for a Publishing Operation

These are described in more detail below

Space Provider

A Space Provider's main responsibility is to implement the following two interaces in the org.eclipse.spaces.core.provider.spi package:

• ISpaceProvider
• ISpace

The ISpaceProvider's main responsibility is to create an instance of an ISpace given an URI that addresses a space. In order to do this, the implementor of ISpaceProvider must specify a name for the providerScheme to use. The providerScheme is part of the URI, and is used as a key by the core spaces implementation to match a URI with an implementation of ISpaceProvider.