It sounds as if Eclipse is similar to IntelliJ. Also, another non-tooling benefit of the ".composite" extension is that it allows people to "eyeball" the filename and know it is a composite from its name. If composites could end in .xml, they would have to open the file to determine that.
Jim
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Mike Edwards wrote: Anish, Jim, I can offer some information regarding Eclipse and composite files, since Eclipse is my development weapon of choice ;-) It is straightforward to configure Eclipse to recognise .composite files as XML files and to choose which editor to use for those files. It is also straightforward to configure the Eclipse XML facilities to read the SCA XSDs and provide on-the-fly validation of the SCDL within the composite files. Dave Booz was most recently using this in anger validating the changes that were part of some of the Bindings TC issue resolutions. One point that I make in favour of having a separate file extension of ".composite" is that it is then easy to ensure that the right tooling is used for composite files. For example, if you want to use the graphical tools from the Eclipse SOA Tools project, it is possible to associate ".composite" with that editor. If composite files were called ".xml", this would not be easy since then any general XML file would start up in the SOA Tools editors. While composite files are XML files, they are also specialized XML files with particular features for which add-on tooling is very useful.
Yours, Mike. Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO. Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC. IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain. Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014 Mobile: +44-7802-467431 Email: mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com Anish, One thing you may want to check is associating an XML MIME media type with the composite file. My development tool (IDEA IntelliJ) can be configured to recognize composite files as XML documents allowing me to use its built-in XML refactoring capabilities such as syncing referenced Java class names with source code. I'm not sure about other tools, but I believe Eclipse should be able to do this too. Jim On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Anish Karmarkar wrote: > This is the feedback from our development team: > > The specification requires that the composite file extension > be .composite. This is overly restrictive. Specifically, allowing it > to be .xml allows existing tools to deal with it without any > modification. > > -Anish > -- > > > -- > This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the > OASIS Service Component Architecture / Assembly (SCA-Assembly) TC. > > In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and > to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required > before posting. > > Subscribe: sca-assembly-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > Unsubscribe: sca-assembly-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > List help: sca-assembly-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org > List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-assembly-comment/ > Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=sca-assembly > Join OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/join/ > -- This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the OASIS Service Component Architecture / Assembly (SCA-Assembly) TC. In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required before posting. Subscribe: sca-assembly-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org Unsubscribe: sca-assembly-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org List help: sca-assembly-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-assembly-comment/ Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=sca-assembly Join OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/join/
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