the mockcentral-editor-core library

MockCentralEditor-Core defines interfaces and supplies logic and utility classes for concrete editor applications used to edit MockCentral configuration files. It utilizes the JDOM library to build the data model from the xml Document containing the mock object definitions. This editor architecture includes several top-level manager interfaces and classes (IMockCentralEditor and MockCentralApplication) and an outline or tree-type viewer (defined by the IMockCentralEditorOutline interface) used to select elements of the configuration file for editing. These editable elements are encapsulated in MockCentralNode instances, which store the JDOM Element data pertaining to the specific part of the file.

The structure provided by this library relies heavily on MVC design and thus there are MockCentralNodeModel and Controller classes corresponding to the various node types, as well as interfaces for the corresponding view classes. Concrete editors should principally need only to implement the view components and other environment-specific classes to supply and manage the tree display, save editor input, handle navigation, store preferences, manage logging and the like.

The MockCentralEditor Eclipse plug-in is built on this library and can be used as a reference for anyone building an editor. It uses many adapter classes that implement the core interfaces while wrapping various Eclipse, JFace and SWT components.

See the javadoc for more details.