Archive for November, 2008

Plug-in Developers Reference



Those of us who are developing plug-ins for WDSC / RDi are in for a bit of a shock now that RDi 7.5 has been released.  IBM has moved the RSE from a proprietary, closed source, framework to open source.  Most of the RSE framework is now part of the Eclipse Target Management project.  Obviously the IBM i specific parts aren't included, but the key components are.

As you might imagine, there was a lot of re-factoring of the code ... as just about everything that was part of the com.ibm.etools API have been moved to org.eclipse.rse.

Because of some of the work I did re-factoring my own code, I've made discoveries that other plug-in developers might find useful.

First and foremost, a VERY useful web page to keep handy is the Eclipse RSE Tutorial.

Also, I've started putting together an object name cross reference between the old (WDSC 7.0 / RDi 7.1) API and the new (RDi 7.5) API (see below).  It is by no means comprehensive, complete, or 100% accurate.

If you are developing a WDSC / RDi plug-in, I highly recommend you subscribe to the WDSC Plug-in Developers mailing list that midrange.com hosts.

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