Ada Plugin for Eclipse

Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[crazyphill]

Are there any open source ada plugins for Eclipse? As a project for a
class, I've been developing one and I wonder it it is the only one
available.

If someone is already doing this, I would like to check it out to avoid
creating a pointless plugin, otherwise, is there anyone interested in
helping out?

Right now it's not open source, but I plan on opening it up during this
semester as a project for my university's ACM--if they're interested.

Digging into the API is time consuming, so there isn't too much
completed right now. I have most of the code highlighting done and I
have almost completed a basic builder for the project. So, in a week or
so I plan on having a plugin that will highlight your document and
allow compilation and building (manual and automatic).

So, anyone interested?

Phill

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Dan McLeran]

I was working on this as well. I'd like to see how far you've gotten.
Maybe I have some code that can be used.

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Alex R. Mosteo]

crazyphill@gmail.com wrote:
> Are there any open source ada plugins for Eclipse? As a project for a
> class, I've been developing one and I wonder it it is the only one
> available.
> 
> If someone is already doing this, I would like to check it out to avoid
> creating a pointless plugin, otherwise, is there anyone interested in
> helping out?
> 
> Right now it's not open source, but I plan on opening it up during this
> semester as a project for my university's ACM--if they're interested.
> 
> Digging into the API is time consuming, so there isn't too much
> completed right now. I have most of the code highlighting done and I
> have almost completed a basic builder for the project. So, in a week or
> so I plan on having a plugin that will highlight your document and
> allow compilation and building (manual and automatic).
> 
> So, anyone interested?

Definitely this is interesting. I don't know of any other plugin except 
the one from Aonix which is commercial, I think.

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Adrien Plisson]

crazyphill@gmail.com wrote:
> Are there any open source ada plugins for Eclipse? As a project for a
> class, I've been developing one and I wonder it it is the only one
> available.

an Ada plugin for Eclipse is currently developped by Aonix. 
unfortunately, it does not seem to be freely available.

this has been shortly discussed here in the threads:

"Web-enabling Ada with AWS, Mon 11 Apr 2005 20:00, Ada-Belgium"
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/392138c66df99a66/ecf2ad90cabb181d?hl=en#ecf2ad90cabb181d>

"Ada-Belgium updates: Ada Web Services, Eclipse Plug-in, Ada2005"
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/c31b637df0dbfbc3/f6f9326a0bbf9404?hl=en#f6f9326a0bbf9404>

"Subject: Ada-Belgium updates: Ada Web Services, Eclipse Plug-in,"
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/453dc762f3fa5483/bcff2860f32ce991?hl=en#bcff2860f32ce991>

i hope this helps.

-- 
rien

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Phill]

Like I said earlier, I plan on having a builder (using GNAT) and syntax
highlighting working. Right now, syntax highlighting is almost
complete, I just have a few problems with numerical literals in certain
situations--these are easy to fix, but I'm working on the builder now.

The builder will hopefully auto compile the sources as they're modified
(Like the java plugin) and will build the executable on command.

I've also created a barebones perspective and will be creating a
project wizard to help support the builder.

What have you done so far?

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Dan McLeran]

I got pretty much as far as you've gotten. My plugin was creating gnat
project files to manage the build as the user set certain options. I
also planned to create wizards for dlls, exes, etc.

Re: Ada Plugin for Eclipse

[Jeff Creem]

crazyphill@gmail.com wrote:
> Are there any open source ada plugins for Eclipse? As a project for a
> class, I've been developing one and I wonder it it is the only one
> available.
> 
> If someone is already doing this, I would like to check it out to avoid
> creating a pointless plugin, otherwise, is there anyone interested in
> helping out?
> 
> Right now it's not open source, but I plan on opening it up during this
> semester as a project for my university's ACM--if they're interested.
> 
> Digging into the API is time consuming, so there isn't too much
> completed right now. I have most of the code highlighting done and I
> have almost completed a basic builder for the project. So, in a week or
> so I plan on having a plugin that will highlight your document and
> allow compilation and building (manual and automatic).
> 
> So, anyone interested?
> 
> Phill
> 

There has been some discussion on the eclipse CDT plugin site that they 
would like to support Ada and there appears to be some people working on 
it (hard to tell how much).

It might be nice if you drop in there and see if you can help.

And yes I think many many of us would be interested.