I am looking for Xforms editor to Eclipse. I found something information (click), but still without result. Is possible to find source of Visual XForms Designer(now it's IBM Forms) might somewhere source still exists? Any sugest how create/edit XForm in Eclipse?
As far as I know, there are no usable XForms editor on the market that you can use to target multiple XForms engine. Some XForms engine come with an XForms editor, specifically tailored for the XForms engine they come with. In particular:
IBM Forms comes with IBM Forms Designer, an Eclipse-based tool.
Orbeon Forms comes with Forms Builder, a web based tool.
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Is there any free software plugin which adds RelaxNG support to Eclipse? I mean syntax highlighting, showing hints after Ctrl+Space pressed, etc.
I have found only some articles about this topic and they are several years old [as of 2013]. They say that RelaxNG support is developing in Webtools, but now there is no mention of RelaxNG.
So does anybody know something more about this, or know some other free software project (actually working) which add RelaxNG support into Eclipse?
The oXygen XML Editor (commercial software) has such support - it is available as an Eclipse plugin.
See: http://www.oxygenxml.com/
I suggest that you install wildwebdeveloper which provides now relaxng support. Validation completion in xml files based on relaxng xml schema/ relaxng compact syntax schema should work and it is free.
You can see those relaxng features with vscode since wildwebdeveloper uses the same xml language server than vsode-xml
Have anybody used Eclipse XWT in non-trivial (e.g. something more complex then tutorial) environment? I don't think Eclipse4 uses it by itself.
Does it really have any advantages over SWT?
XWT is a declarative UI framework. It allows you to model your UI. You don't need to write code to instantiate, design, layout and data-bind your SWT widgets. Instead a XML based description file is used to build the UI.
Take a look at the example from the XWT FAQ: http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/XWT#Layout
XWT resembles GladeXML, XAML and XUL. There is tooling support in Eclipse Juno with the XWT Editor and WindowBuilder.
In my opinion the tooling support is lacking, several features of XWT are missing from the editors. While I generally prefer the declarative UI approach, I wouldn't base a non-trivial project on XWT alone.
Apparently, no one have seen XWT in production env.
Can anyone suggest me some reading for creating Form based editor in Eclipse?
The right Google term would probably be "Eclipse Forms", and there are a few articles available:
Eclipse Forms API - Tutorial
Revitalize your applications with Eclipse Forms
Eclipse Forms: Rich UI for the Rich Client
Also, in general a good place to start searching for Eclipse material is http://www.eclipse.org/articles/
Well the topic says it all. Can I use google web toolkit to generate my views to be used in Castle Monorail project and render it through nvelocity view engine. Is it at all possible?
I don't know of anyone that has tried this, but GWT is a server-independent technology so in principle I don't see why it wouldn't work. GWT needs some server-side plumbing which you'll probably have to write yourself (again because I haven't found anyone that has done this before).
You might want to check out Script# which is similar to GWT but you code in .Net, it has MSBuild support, Visual Studio integration, etc.
I am looking to create an editor and I was wondering if there was a Swing library which Eclipse uses for its main editor. It may be something quite basic, but I am looking for the drop down menus which come when you press full stop. Strings become symbols rather than just text.
Eclipse is rather SWT-based than Swing-based.
As for a custom editor, you could look into an eclipse-GMF-EMF-based editor with XText
Xtext is a framework for development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs).
Just describe your very own DSL using Xtext's simple EBNF grammar language and the generator will create a parser, an AST-meta model (implemented in EMF) as well as a full-featured Eclipse text editor from that.
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The Framework integrates with technology from Eclipse Modeling such as EMF, GMF, M2T and parts of EMFT.
Development with Xtext is optimized for short turn-arounds, so that adding new features to an existing DSL is a matter of minutes. Still sophisticated programming languages can be implemented.
Actually I think you want to consider developing an Eclipse RCP application which involves using SWT, JFace and other parts of the Eclipse platform. There are many layers of editor support which are in the Platform Text component, this is what the Eclipse JDT editors are based on. The modelling stuff (GMF, EMF, etc) is probably much more than what you want. The AbstractTextEditor class in org.eclipse.ui.texteditor is a good place to start. RCP gets you a lot of other stuff as far as helping you to manage the objects you are editing, but you don't necessarily need to use this.
There are likely Eclipse corner (on eclipse.org) articles on how to do this, but the specific one escapes me now. I always just look at the code.