Eclipse flexible workspaces and HTTP filestores

Bugzilla 106176 (Provide more flexible workspaces) documents the evolution of Eclipse 3.2 Flexible workspaces:

…a project can now be created whose files and directories are stored on a network, in a database, or any facility capable of storing hierarchies of files and directories. This new ability to decouple resources in the workspace from the local file system is called flexible workspaces.

This should be interesting! Projects containing resources that are stored in databases, WebDAV servers and all sorts of other hierarchical repositories. I’m sure the Visual Age veterans out there are already dreaming of the return of the Code Repository Looking around, I don’t yet see any alternative extensions of the underlying org.eclipse.core.filesystem.filesystems extension point but I am sure they will appear with time. (The CVS team plugin provides one that seems to handle the cvs scheme although I havn’t yet found any documentation on using it directly.)

In the meantime, I think I’ll knock up a provider for resources stored at “http” URIs - we need one for our product (so we can link remote WSDL files directly into projects). More when I have an implementation to speak of…

Friday, June 16th, 2006 eclipse

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