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| Status of Splitting org.eclipse.ui</h1></center> |
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| Kai-Uwe Maetzel, Daniel Megert</address></center> |
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| 25th September 2002</address></center> |
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| <p><br>This is the release note we sent out on the platform-ui-dev mailing |
| list. |
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| <p>We have completed the initial transition to the new structure of |
| <tt>org.eclipse.ui</tt>. |
| <p>Kim updated the CVS module <tt>platform-ui</tt> to contain all the plug-ins |
| that are part of the new structure. Dean ran a nightly build to make |
| sure that the new structure does not cause serious build failures. We ran |
| multiple tests to ensure that the new layout can be used for self hosting. |
| To update your workspace you can delete <tt>org.eclipse.ui</tt> and check |
| out the module <tt>platform-ui</tt>. You can work with binary projects |
| by importing <tt>org.eclipse.ui</tt> and all its required projects using |
| the PDE import wizard. |
| <p>In addition to the changes outlined in the announcement we made the |
| following modifications: |
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| Rather than having fragments we have released the "everything is a plug-in" |
| version. This is because we experienced problems when importing the fragments |
| as binary projects and also when running the build machinery we use for |
| nightly and integration builds. Depending on the progress we make in solving |
| these issues and accelerating class loading we might switch back to fragments |
| in the future.</li> |
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| <li> |
| We renamed source folders where appropriate using <tt>src</tt> for the |
| default source folder and <tt>extensions</tt> for the folder containing |
| package fragments of packages defined in required plug-ins.</li> |
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| <li> |
| class <tt>PreferenceStore</tt>: We removed the newly introduced usage of |
| <tt>Workspace.run(ISafeRunnable)</tt>. This needs to be solved in an <tt>org.eclipse.core.runtime</tt> |
| independent way if JFace should not depend on this plug-in (to be decided).</li> |
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| <li> |
| class <tt>FontRegistry</tt>: We removed newly introduced dependency on |
| <tt>WorkbenchUI</tt> and the usage of <tt>Workspace.run(ISafeRunnable)</tt>. |
| This needs to be solved in an org.eclipse.core.runtime independent way |
| if JFace should not depend on this plug-in (to be decided).</li> |
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| class <tt>Dialog</tt>: We changed the package visible fields to protected.</li> |
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| When working with the new layout you might see the following types of |
| problems: |
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| <tt>ClassNotFoundException</tt> if there are problems in the plug-in dependencies |
| setup.</li> |
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| <tt>IllegalArgumentException</tt> in the case of accessing package visible |
| members from package fragments located in different plug-ins. We tested |
| multiple scenarios and fixed several of those problems. It still might |
| occur. You can solve this problem by changing the visibility of the affected |
| members from package visible to protected.</li> |
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| Open issue: We have not yet looked into the tests of org.eclipse.ui and |
| the doc plug-ins.</li> |
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| <p><br>Please keep in mind that the new structure is an initial version. |
| There are open issues and the org.eclipse.ui team will decide about further |
| restructuring if necessary. |
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