[xwiki-dev] GSoC : IDE Editor Integration

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Tharindu,

On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:34 PM, tharindu jayasuriya wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on developing a plug-in for eclipse that would allow  
> XWiki to integrate seamlessly with the development environment (as  
> part of GSoC2007). I have investigated TimTam which is a similar  
> plug-in. The major issue i need to clarify is what sort of  
> integration would be necessary, displaying XWiki pages within a  
> browser widget inside eclipse environment seems quite straight  
> forward, but this would simply mean that I have eliminated the  
> requirement for an external browser. On the other hand TimTam  
> provides a tree navigation function which is quite handy; is it  
> possible to have this kind of a functionality with XWiki ? or else,  
> is there a better way to do this ?

The integration I have in mind uses XWiki's XML RPC interface for  
performing the actions. The IDE would provide the UI for the actions,  
navigation, etc. One key feature we need is (as in TimTam) the  
ability to find directly the document to view/edit without navigating  
through links AND the ability to work offline (as in TimTam - You  
download the page which you then edit in disconnected mode in your  
browser and save later on - The ability to automatically save the  
page locally would be nice to have too).

What would be nice is if you could prepare a document listing the  
user stories/requirements for this editor. That could be a good start  
for a discussion and I think we need this before jumping in the  
implementation details. We could then do some planning and set some  
shared expectations.

Some UI mock ups would be nice too.

WDYT?

Thanks a lot for working on this! I'm very excited by this feature
-Vincent

>
> The related JIRA issue is,
>
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1323
>
>
> Regards,
>
> - Tharindu.

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