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Workspace4.0
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
Support access to multiple workspaces simultaneously
Support remote workspaces
Decouple the concept of the workspace w.r.t the application from the concept used by the Resources plug-in
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