[ANN / Req for Participation] Hibachi- The Eclipse Ada Development Tools Project

[ANN / Req for Participation] Hibachi- The Eclipse Ada Development Tools Project

[Tom Grosman]

I have submitted a proposal to the Eclipse Management Organization for the 
creation of a vendor-neutral IDE for Ada development in Eclipse. Eclipse is 
an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open 
development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes 
for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.


ADT, the Ada Development Tools project (codename Hibachi), a sub-project of 
the Tools top-level project analogous to JDT, the CDT and others, will 
follow the Eclipse development process and be made available under the 
Eclipse Public License (EPL).

As the Eclipse platform has grown in robustness, maturity and level of 
adoption, the Ada community has expressed the desire for a first-class 
Eclipse Ada development environment that can leverage the openness, 
extensibility and widespread availability of the exemplary tools found 
within the Eclipse framework. Various Ada vendors have announced the 
availability of Eclipse plugins for their Ada tools. There is necessarily 
much duplication of effort between these plugins, effort that could be 
better spent advancing the robustness and functionality of a common Eclipse 
IDE. Especially resource consuming is the integration of each proprietary 
environment with the myriad of additional tools that are often used in the 
large scale development environments in which Ada is frequently found. It is 
the goal of this project to marshall the resources of the Ada community of 
vendors, open source projects, third party tool providers, industrial and 
academic partners in order to create a vendor neutral, extensible, 
best-of-breed, Ada plugin for Eclipse.


Since it is the goal of the Hibachi project to create a framework that can 
be exploited by all Ada vendors, regardless of underlying technology, the 
participation of representatives of the various Ada and tools vendors is 
highly desired in order to ensure that the best engineering design decisions 
are being made in terms of openness and extensibility.

The ADT proposal can be seen at http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/adt/


Comments are welcome via the adt newsgroup- 
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools.adt newsgroup.

(The Eclipse newsgroups are password-protected to protect them from spam and 
trolls. Visit http://eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html and request a free 
password to access the newsgroups. The same password can be used to browse 
the Eclipse mailing list archives.)


Those interested in Hibachi are also invited to contact me directly.





I'd like to thank Aonix for contributing the sources to AonixADT as the 
baseline for Hibachi, and agreeing to contribute engineering and project 
management resources to the project. I'd also like to thank Doug Schaefer, 
CDT project lead and member of the Tools Project Management Committee for 
agreeing to act as a mentor, and for the guidance and enthusiasm he brings 
to the project.


For information on the Eclipse development process, refer to 
(http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php)

I look forward to your comments, suggestions and participation.


-Tom


-- 
Tom Grosman
Hibachi Project Lead  http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/adt/
Why wait for the movie? See the blog! http://hibachitom.blogspot.com/ 

Re: Hibachi- The Eclipse Ada Development Tools Project

[Marco]

On Apr 5, 2:40 pm, "Tom Grosman" <gros...@aonix.fr> wrote:
> I have submitted a proposal to the Eclipse Management Organization for the
> creation of a vendor-neutral IDE for Ada development in Eclipse. Eclipse is
> an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open
> development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes
> for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.
>
> ADT, the Ada Development Tools project (codename Hibachi), a sub-project of
> the Tools top-level project analogous to JDT, the CDT and others, will
> follow the Eclipse development process and be made available under the
> Eclipse Public License (EPL).

  sounds good - thanks to Aonix for supporting this effort