Build EA inside Eclipse

[Owl Saver]

I am not sure if this is legally doable. What I envision is that EA would be a plugin for Eclipse. It would talk to the EA specified data store for the model. But, it would share the project model with Eclipse. I have the EA MDG but it does not seem to me that it goes this far. The two biggest advantages I see are:

- Sparx would be able to focus on building the model and the UI but the overall interface would be provided by Eclipse. This would allow Sparx resources to focus on their added value. It would also ease the learning curve for Eclipse users.
- I would expect that EA would nativly run on whatever platofrms that Eclipse supports.

I am not sure how the Open Surce nature of Eclipse would impact this. It would be a shame if Open Source was a limiting the adoption of a tool such as EA.

[Martin Terreni]

What about Visual studio users?

[Owl Saver]

Good point. I was only looking at it from one point of view. I guess the MDG approach will be the most cost effective way to support multiple IDEs. Even within the Java world, there are many users of NetBeans and other IDEs. Oh well, it seemed like a good idea when I wrote it.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

I was going to ask if you had the Eclipse MDG, but I see that you do.  What is it that you find is missing there?

I'm not sure that I think it would be valuable to move the entire EA UI into Eclipse.  I suppose it might be workable, but I'm not sure that a lot would be gained by it.  Myself, I am much more interested in the parts related to roundtripping working well.

[Martin Terreni]

Well, at least MDG for Netbeans is surly required.