OTDT/NonAPI

For the sake of a smooth and deep integration into the JDT the OTDT connects to other plugins using these non-API mechanisms:

• Adaptation using OT/Equinox with Team and Role classes.
• Accessing internal classes

The extent and rationale is documented on this page.

Affected plugins

org.eclipse.jdt.core

The OTDT contains a variant of the jdt.core plugin as described here.

Additionally, the following OT plugins access internals of the JDT/Core:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt
  • OTTypeHierarchies -- This team adapts the TypeHierarchy mechanism to account for implicit inheritance
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.apt
  • VisitorsAdaptor -- This team accesses internal classes for adapting annotation processing (APT)
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.compiler.adaptor
  • Multiple Team classes -- adaptations for the following purposes
    • ensure the incremental builder respects implicit role inheritance as a trigger for rebuilding affected classes
    • make information from aspectBindings available for checking imports and specifically base imports during compilation

org.eclipse.jdt.core.apt

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.apt
  • VisitorsAdaptor -- This team adapts the AnnotationDiscoveryVisitor so that it will finds annotations of method bindings (callin/callout) and their arguments, too.

org.eclipse.jdt.ui

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • PresentationAdaptor -- access JavaEditor for computing the start line of an element
  • Also: instantiate internal class AppearanceAwareLabelProvider.

org.eclipse.jdt.debug

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • PresentationAdaptor -- beautify stackframes relating to generated code
  • SourceLookupAdaptor -- adapt source lookup for "Open Actual Type" action to reflect implicit role inheritance

org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • PresentationAdaptorActivator -- beautify stackframes relating to generated code (manages activation of PresentationAdaptor)
  • DebugUIDialogAdaptor2 -- add new "Team Activation" tab to LocalJavaApplicationTabGroup
  • JDTDebugUILaunchingAdaptor -- add OT/J checkbox to JavaJRETab and JavaConnectTab
  • OTToggleBreakpointAdapter -- replace ToggleBreakPointAdapter with a variant that handles implicit role inheritance and non-Java elements (callout/callin method binding)
  • also: extend ToggleBooleanPreferenceAction to implement a new option in the Variables view
  • also: access to two internal constants from DebugUIMessages
  • for a variant of BreakpointLocationVerifierJob
    • copy&adjust some source files
    • access internal classes ActionDelegateHelper, ActionMessages, BreakpointUtils, DebugWorkingCopyManager, JavaDebugUtils, JDIDebugUIPlugin, ValidBreakpointLocationLocator

org.eclipse.jdt.launching

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • JDTLaunchingAdaptor -- conditionally activate OT/J runtime for normal Java launches

org.eclipse.jdt.junit

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • DebugUIDialogAdaptor3 -- add new "Team Activation" tab to JUnitTabGroup

org.eclipse.jdt.junit.core

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • JUnitLaunchingAdaptor -- conditionally activate OT/J runtime for JUnit launches

org.eclipse.debug.core

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • LaunchConfigurationInitializer -- initialize an additional launch configuration attribute depending on the project nature.

org.eclipse.debug.ui

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • DebugUIDialogAdaptor -- facility for adding a new "Team Activation" tab to various launch configuration dialogs
  • PresentationAdaptorActivator -- conditionally enable beautification of stack frames for generated code (only for OT launches)
  • VariablesViewAdaptor -- filter synthetic variables from the view (configurable via a preference)
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.ui
  • for implementing a view similar to the Variables view:
    • subclass internal classes AbstractModelProxy, VariableLabelProvider
    • access internal classes ModelDelta, VariableColumnPresentation, IPresentationContext
  • also: instantiate internal class BooleanFieldEditor2 which works around a method protection
  • access internal class ColorManager

org.eclipse.pde.core

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.compiler.adaptor
  • PDEAdaptor -- feed information about aspectBindings into the compiler for access checking

org.eclipse.pde.ui

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • PDELaunchingAdaptor -- add OT/Equinox checkbox to all OSGi related launch configuration dialogs (JREBlock)
  • also: access to an internal constant from IPDEUIConstants
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.samples
  • SamplesAdapter -- small bugfixes and adjustments for re-using "orphaned" classes

org.eclipse.pde.launching

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
  • PDELaunchingAdaptor -- conditionally enable OT/Equinox runtime for all OSGi related launches

org.eclipse.core.resources

Accessed by:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.compiler.adaptor
  • ResourceProjectAdaptor -- decorate objects of type Project to store two more fields if the project is an OT/Equinox project.

Status: List of OT-plugins processed:

• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.apt
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.compiler.adaptor
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.ui
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.debug.adaptor
• org.eclipse.objectteams.otdt.samples