[gentoo-soc] Gentoo/Java IDE integration Weekly report #10

[Jiale Pan (Kyle Pan)]

Hi all,

------------------project introduction--------------------------------
The project includes an improvement to current java-config and a new
eclipse-plugin. The plug-in, which when clicked, lists system installed
java libraries for users to select and import into projects. This avoids
user manually browses and locates system installed libraries, making
developing more efficient and comfortable. The existing tool
java-config, with some necessary improvements, is chosen as the data
retrieval backend of this project. Jython is used to integrate
java-config to the plug-in.This project will mainly benefit developers
using eclipse, and due to planned work on improvements to java-config,
it will benefit java-config project and even non-developer gentoo users
as well.


----------------progress of this week --------------------------------
1. built  the plugin's eclipse update site [1]
2. implemented edit classpath entry function(user clicks "Edit.." in
Build path Properties Page)
3. some cleanups

----------------next weeks plans----------------------------------
The main work of this project is almost finished..and remaining part
includes:
1. fix the known issue when user adds one entry twice (currently throw
unfriendly exception to user)
2. more testing work
3. write user instructions, docs etc.


[1]
http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/projects/GenEclipse/trunk/updatesite2/

To test,
1) emerge =dev-java/jython-2.5.1-r2
2) emerge kylepan's version of java-config
(http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/projects/java-config-2/branches/kylepan/java-config-2.1.9999k.ebuild)
3) install the plugin from the above update site
4) open java build path property dialog ,choose "Add Library..", then
choose "Gen Eclipse"

I'll write specific instructions soon. Testing and reporting bugs are
highly welcomed:) I'll appreciate it.
-- 
Best regards,
Jiale Pan(Kyle Pan)