additional extension points

[raysuliteanu]

I was wondering if there's any reason not to expose additional extension points in the plugin configurations; what I'm particularly interested in is extension points for UI components, so that I could for example customize the IDE by adding buttons or tabs to some dialogs. For example, when selecting a bean the current '...' button looks up existing bean definitions, but I'd like the option to extend the functionality to be able to create a new bean at that point.

Of course, maybe I can already do that and I'm just missing it, which is why I'm posting here rather than submitting an RFE.

So any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi,

AFAIK extending UI components by adding buttons isn't something that is common in Eclipse, w/out saying that this isn't possible.

What I've learnt from your posts is that you want to extend the way the graphical web flow editor is working, e.g. by adding/integrating it with a wizard mechanism to create or modify Spring bean definitions. I would recommend that you create JIRA issues for your enhancement requests so that we can look how we can to improve the UI components.

Rgds

Christian