Sv: RFR: JMC-6555 Convert JOverflow plugin to SWT

[Mario Torre]

On 28/08/2019 13:24, Marcus Hirt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Regarding the removal of the JavaFX bundles, I'll simply note that Oracle has a JavaFX based plug-in for Coherence. Removing the third-party JavaFX bundling from the p2 site would make it much harder to have JavaFX based plug-ins in most versions of JMC (except Oracle's, who would likely override stuff to retain this capability). This is not necessarily a bad thing - harmonizing around SWT (and Swing for some drawing on the AWT_SWT bridge) would simplify many things. Other things would OTOH become much harder. For example, I once prototyped a rather nice 3D heap region and occupancy viewer using JavaFX.

Shouldn't this be treated as any other dependency however? If a plugin
needs it, it will just add it to its own p2 configuration, like it's
already the case, or am I missing something?

I think it's a good idea to cleanup the dependency set and remove what
is not needed. If there's some plugin that gets promoted into core we
can always re-add the deps.

Cheers,
Mario

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