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E4/JavaScript
Introduction
One of the goals of e4 is to provide support for writing plugins in other languages - this page is the home of the effort to use JavaScript to write bundles in Eclipse. There are a number of excellent JavaScript runtimes made available by the browsers however as Eclipse in its current form is Java-based are initially targetting Rhino.
Development Resources
Development is currently being done in the E4 incubator in the "languages" sub-component.
Host: dev.eclipse.org Repository Path: /cvsroot/ Project Path: e4/org.eclipse.e4.languages/bundles and e4/org.eclipse.e4.languages/test
The relevant projects are:
(bundles) -org.eclipse.e4.javascript -org.eclipse.e4.javascript.registry
(tests) -org.eclipse.e4.javascript.test -org.eclipse.e4.javascript.registry.test
Current Work
"JavaScript Bundles"
"JavaScript Extension Registry Support"