Revision as of 06:45, 17 January 2014

What is it

SWT on JavaFX is an experimental SWT port sitting on top of JavaFX. It's main task is to built a compat story to move the Eclipse IDE away from SWT to JavaFX.

Eclipse on FX state

How to contribute

• Sign an Eclipse CLA - we won't accept pull requests, patches, ... without the CLA although the codebase is still at bitbucket
• Get JDK8Beta > b120 from https://jdk8.java.net/download.html
• Get Eclipse 4.3 SR 1 from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.3.1-201309111000/
• Install EGit-Team Provider
• Install JDTBeta8 feature patches from http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/java8/e43
• Install e(fx)clipse tooling
  • add update site http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/
  • add update site http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-nightly/site
  • Clone https://bitbucket.org/tschindl/e_on_f.git
• Get familiar with the codebase
• Show up at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/swt-javafx and ask questions, and inform others what you plan to work on
• (optional) File a bugzilla https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Efxclipse&component=Runtime&short_desc=%5Bswtfx%5D

Workbench

For those of you who want to run the Eclipse IDE on top of JavaFX you should clone the following repos as well and use the efx_tmp branch:

• https://github.com/swt-javafx/eclipse.platform.ui/tree/efx_tmp
• https://github.com/swt-javafx/eclipse.platform.text/tree/efx_tmp
• https://github.com/swt-javafx/eclipse.jdt.ui/tree/efx_temp

You need to import the following projects:

• org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench
• org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt
• org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.swt
• org.eclipse.jface
• org.eclipse.jface.text
• org.eclipse.search
• org.eclipse.ui.ide.application
• org.eclipse.jdt.ui

Contributions

Generally speaking any contribution is welcome. An easy way to contribute is to port one of the SWT-Snippets http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ to the at.bestsolution.efxclipse.runtime.examples.swt-bundle. The code currently holds a lot of calls to Util.logNotImplemented() track them down and implement them so that they do the same as they do in the other SWT ports

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