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In addition, it would be nice to have transaction support at the EFS level | In addition, it would be nice to have transaction support at the EFS level | ||
| − | == Decouple Workspace == | + | == Decouple Workspace from Client/UI == |
| − | + | Currently, the Eclipse workspace and its related facilities are run in the same executable as the customers of the workspace including the UI. We would like to investigate the possibility of decoupling the workspace functionality from its clients in order to support the following things | |
| − | Support remote workspaces (e.g. remote build and search) | + | * Support access to multiple workspaces simultaneously. Whether being run in the same executable or a separate process, it would be desirable to work with multiple workspaces within a single client UI without suffering the overhead of the current Switch Workspace operation. |
| − | + | * Support remote workspaces (e.g. remote build and search). In some cases, the file resources being worked on are not located on the client machine. In these cases, it would be beneficial to also have workspace related functionality, such as build and search, run on the server where the workspace resides. | |
| − | Decouple the concept of the workspace w.r.t the application from the concept used by the Resources plug-in | + | * Decouple the concept of the workspace w.r.t the application from the concept used by the Resources plug-in. Currently, the workspace concept is overloaded to mean both the data area for the running application and the default root for projects. |
== Flexible Project Organization == | == Flexible Project Organization == | ||
Revision as of 11:15, 11 September 2007
This page describes some ideas we have for the Workspace components in Eclipse 4.0.
Disclaimer: What follows is not to be considered a commitment to address any of the mentioned issues in 4.0. It is only meant as a place to discuss the possibilities.
Contents
Eclipse File System
Push Down IResource functionality
The Eclipse File System (EFS) was introduced in Eclipse 3.2 and is used as the file abstraction on which the IResource model is based. There are other facilities available at the IResource level that could be pushed down to the EFS level, including:
- local history
- editor associations 120602
- session and persistent property caches
- deltas/change notification
- repository providers
- compare
Transaction Support
In addition, it would be nice to have transaction support at the EFS level
Decouple Workspace from Client/UI
Currently, the Eclipse workspace and its related facilities are run in the same executable as the customers of the workspace including the UI. We would like to investigate the possibility of decoupling the workspace functionality from its clients in order to support the following things
- Support access to multiple workspaces simultaneously. Whether being run in the same executable or a separate process, it would be desirable to work with multiple workspaces within a single client UI without suffering the overhead of the current Switch Workspace operation.
- Support remote workspaces (e.g. remote build and search). In some cases, the file resources being worked on are not located on the client machine. In these cases, it would be beneficial to also have workspace related functionality, such as build and search, run on the server where the workspace resides.
- Decouple the concept of the workspace w.r.t the application from the concept used by the Resources plug-in. Currently, the workspace concept is overloaded to mean both the data area for the running application and the default root for projects.
Flexible Project Organization
(see bug 35973)
sharing of settings above the project level but below the workspace level (or through project associations as indocated in bug 202263.
repository root above the project level but below the workspace level
separate namespaces within a single workspace to support development on multiple project versions, for example
isolate sets of projects within a single workspace (although multiple workspace support is similar) so that builds and searches and be localized to a single set (or, it is easier to identify what set a particular java clas is found in, for instance)
configure location of project meta-data either at the workspace level or at some level above the project(bug 78438)
Ensure Maven2 is well supported
Support scenario where two source folders within a single project can have a one way dependency (comment 54 of bug 35973)
Resource Links
repository root at the link level