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Selector Architecture Harmonization
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Since Selectors use most of the Higgins Components, work on harmonizing the Higgins selectors into a single architecture would be a huge step towards overall Higgins architecture harmonization/convergence.
A good first step in converging the selectors is start by harmonizing the GTK and Cocoa Selector and the Adobe AIR Selector.
Top Level Diagram
Notes:
- Introduce the notion of a "Component Set" -- a set of components
- This architecture would run on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and (with further work) potentially smart phones
- The "Selector UI" component would be either GTK, Cocoa or AIR-based, but the underlying "Selector Client" would be common.
"Top Level" To Dos
The first objective is to perfectly align the existing Components with the above diagram.
- Jeesmon: Split the shared tcpserver project into multiple projects to align with above. Suggestions for new names:
- org.eclipse.higgins.hss for http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components#Higgins_Selector_Selector_.28HSS.29
- org.eclipse.higgins.hss.manager for http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components#HSS_Manager
- org.eclipse.higgins.hss.launcher for http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components#Higgins_Launcher
- org.eclipse.higgins.hbx.ie (NOT hbxie! (taken)) for http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components#Higgins_Browser_Extension_.28HBX.29
- Jeesmon: Merge the currently separate HSS connectors into .higgins.hss
- Andy?: Split out "GTK-based Selector UI" code shown in a box here into a new project, that will form the first alternative implementation of this new component: Selector UI
- Change GTK-based Selector to use standard Higgins HBX