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CDO/Explorer (work in progress)
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Vision
The CDO Explorer is a client-side RCP application that demonstrates all the core functionality of CDO. It is expected to provide re-usable user interface components as well as a default distribution in form of an RCP application. CDO users shall be enabled to download a single setup.exe file and install a complete technology stack, including repository server, database, the CDO Explorer client, possibly a CDO Admin client to (re-) configure the repository server.
We'd like to demonstrate the following:
- strict use of data binding
- together with asynchronous node expansion
- drag and drop of objects to create references
- extensible repository browser view
- extensible form editors for single objects
- neat integration of all the optional CDO functionality, like:
- query definition and execution
- import/export of resources
- resource browsing (integrated in the generic repository browser)
- history browsing
- explicit locking and a locks view
- local and remote annotation of CDOModelElements
- others?
Description
The following screen stub can be used as a basis for more detailed UI descriptions. The content of the open editors is irrelevant, it's just to illustrate the general use of the forms toolkit.
