[xwiki-dev] Using SVN and Eclipse for Groovy development

[François Déchelle]

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Massol a écrit :
> Hi Francois,
> 
>> Following the recent discussion on using SVN as a backend for Xwiki, 
>> I'd like to discuss something symetrical, i.e. to use SVN and Eclipse 
>> as a front-end. The idea is to write Xwiki pages containing Groovy 
>> code in Eclipse (or Emacs), store it in SVN and deploy it 
>> automatically on an Xwiki.
> 
> Yes, this is an excellent idea. We have created a GSoc project for this 
> here:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/IDE+Editor+Integration 
> 
> (of course anyone is welcome to collaborate on this project)

If I can be of any help, I'd be happy to.

> What I'm not sure though is why would we need SVN for this? My idea was 
> to use the XWiki XML RPC API to send data to the XWiki server.
> 
> WDYT?

That's true, SVN is on the side, it's just an optional choice if you 
want to store your code. It is not used in the path [IDE/Editor] -> 
[Xwiki server].

I have not thought of using Xwiki XML RPC API, but it's a better choice 
than using HTTP POST request, you're right. I think that integrating it 
into ant should not be that difficult. May be having specific ant tasks 
for Xwiki would be usefull.

>> This way, the project can be easily integrated into Eclipse. I'm 
>> wondering how the Groovy Eclipse plug-in can be used: 
>> http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
>> My guess is that the editing part can be usefull, but that running 
>> Groovy inside Eclipse wont do it for now.
> 
> I think it's pretty easy to benefit from auto complete and syntax 
> coloring and that's already quite good.

Yes, that's already something cool. No refactoring yet, but may be one 
day ;-)

François