Re: Re: [dev] Info: potential SDK changes for OO.org 3.2

> Hello Juergen,
>
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009, 10:04, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the SDK contains many examples showing the usage of the API etc. The
>> examples got not really maintained and the workload for testing them is
>>   high.
>>
>> Some time in the past i have already mentioned that the idea is to
>> remove some of the examples from the SDK. Mainly examples written in
>> Java that are now available as NetBeans projects and that can be used
>> instead. The advantage of the NetBeans projects is that you can easier
>> browse the code and debug the examples directly from NetBeans.
>
> Karl Weber's arguments convinced me that it is better to have the Java sources
> independent from the NetBeans project: this way, instead of having to maintain
> the sources for NB, Eclipse, etc., the only sources that have to maintained
> are the project-independent ones; then one has the way how to include this
> sources in the respective project.
>
> For client applications, NB with the OOo API plugin can have relative sources,
> so that the NB user only needs to get (and keep together, otherwise the
> relative reference does not work)
>
> api/examples/java/sources
> api/examples/java/netbeans
>
> For UNO components, relative references do not work because the plugin has
> several issues (the extension manifest, IDL files, etc. must be inside the
> project). I can't imagine a good solution with cvs, but svn has external
> definitions (though OOo is planning to move away from svn...)
>

> Another
>
>> A further advantage of having the examples standalone and documented in
>> the wiki is that the community can easier help to improve the examples.
>
> submiting code may not require write access to the repository, it can be
> submited via issue tracker; but wouldn't anyway this mean to sign the JCA? ...
> not so easy in this case...
>
> Regards