by lievendoclo » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:22 am
Yeah, he's quite active. But it so happens that I discussed with Jan (RCP lead and a colleague) today that we really need more people at RCP. Especially when we want to see a release in October.
What I am missing?
Jide Pivot for one. Just to give you an example on how it could be used:
We have a JPA application with a Spring RCP frontend (as do all our applications). We get object graphs from the database, and then show them on screen. When you combine GlazedLists' EventTableModel with Jide Pivot, you suddenly have a really powerful tool that works completely object-oriented instead of resultset oriented. I can easily provide a sample.
And then you can get started with EventTableModel-Jide Grids, a complete Jide OSS binding collection,...
The goal should not only be integration, but also easy out of the box usage. Johnny's code is already quite something, but with Spring Desktop a lot is going to change. You need to be able to change quickly and efficiently.
But when you're starting to go that way, you need:
- good communication (issue tracker is a must)
- manpower
- complete support of both sides
I myself work day in, day out with RCP (although this'll change, I'm changing jobs in 2 weeks), and work closely with Jan. So I know quite fast what's going to happen. At work, we created a lot of stuff on top of RCP, and it'll probably get into Desktop at one point (at least I hope). But again, at the moment, RCP lacks a bit of manpower. And whoever starts the integration, needs to realize this.