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Cytoscape SDK for Eclipse

Introduction

The purpose of this project is minimize plugin developer's setup time for developing Cytoscape 3 plugins. For Cytoscape 3, we are going to use several new technologies including OSGi, Spring, scripting, etc. Developers have to spend some time to setup their environment to use those new technologies for Cytoscape 3. To avoid the overhead for using them, I'll introduce a new plugin for Eclipse, tentatively named Cytoscape SDK.

The goal of this Eclipse plugin is the following:

1. Install all required Eclipse plugins for Cytoscape 3 development.
2. Provide templates for Cytoscape 3 plugin projects.
3. Integration to Eclipse PDE (Plugin Development Environment)

Development Plan

Phase 1: Develop the mechanism to install all required plugins for Cytoscape 3 core/plugin development. Phase 2: Provide template for plugin development.

Design

Target Platform

This SDK is for Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or later. I assume that Eclipse is installed with PDE.

Required Plugins

To develop Cytoscape 3 code, developers should install the following plugins for Eclipse:

• Subclipse - Client for our source code management system
• Maven Integration for Eclipse - For Maven projects
• Spring IDE - For Spring DM
• PAX Coursor - Run OSGi bundles on Felix

How it works?

• Install all required plugins from Cytoscape project's update site (maybe on chianti.ucsd.edu)

• Add maven archetypes using [http://nexus.sonatype.org/ Nexus]

  • Core Development
  • Plugin Project
  • Script Project
• Setup perspective