SCA Form Editor

That’s another announce about the SCA editors in Eclipse STP…

I committed last week the first draft of the SCA Form editor.
Like its name suggests it, the SCA Form editor is based on Eclipse forms. It offers a Web-form interface to edit SCA XML artifacts, e.g. composite, componentType and constrainingType elements.
This editor comes to complete the two other editors of the SCA Eclipse tooling.

The SCA Composite Designer was the first editor available in the SCA component of STP. It is perfect to define the main elements of your application. It will be the editor used most of the time for most of the cases. Being based on GMF, its use is very intuitive, even for those who are not familliar with SCA.

The SCA XML editor is the source for SCA XML artifacts. It should be something developpers will appreciate. Just in case. It’s always convenient to have a direct control on source files.

The SCA Form editor is at an intermediate level between these two. It tries to focus on usability and on completeness of edition. Let you edit the main elements of your application and the most complex as well. I don’t know if it will have success or not. In a first time, I will focus on making the features complete. Then, I will see to improve the GUI and the usability. The goal is to have a first version to release with Galileo (the version 3.5 of Eclipse that will be released in June).

I can’t really give more information here without rewriting what I put on the wiki page of this editor.
You can check it out for more information.