Programming Eclipse plugins in Jython?

[Fabio Zadrozny]

Kenneth McDonald wrote:

>Is it easy or difficult to implement Eclipse plugins in Jython? And  
>if the former, are there any starter's guides you could recommend?
>
>The desire is an editor plugin for a syntactically very simple  
>proprietary language. I'd like to have paren checking, syntax  
>colorization and (to start with at least) a few other small features.  
>Unfortunately, there's quite a hump in learning the Eclipse API well  
>enough to do even simple things (or at least that's what my reading  
>seems to indicate), and I was wondering if I can cheat and use Jython  
>to simplify the process.
>
>Thanks,
>Ken
>  
>
Hi Kenneth,

Basically, you will NEED to understand the Eclipse API one way or the 
other, and jython will not really help you there... -- I know... been 
there :-)

But after you're able to grasp its concepts, you can probably use it 
without problems... Altough you'll have to extend the same java 
interfaces Eclipse provides anyway ;-)

Cheers,

Fabio