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Asked: 2026-06-15T21:35:33+00:00

I have defined an EMF metamodel in which some elements have a String field

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I have defined an EMF metamodel in which some elements have a String field which will contain some Java code.

I am trying to create/reuse a (Java) source code editor as part of the tabbed properties view to be able to edit that field with some IDE-like functionality. It would be great to adapt the JDT editor to use it here, but for I have read, it is not feasible. Extending org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text to provide all that functionality seems to be too much of an overkill for this simple project.

Therefore, the question would be, which approach would you recommend as the best functionality/effort ratio to achieve this?, do you now of any source code editor which may be reusable as/within a view?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Buddy…
    This is really going to be a hard task.
    Re-Using EditorParts in SWT widgets/ViewParts is not easy. The only thing that I got to manage was to reuse the EPF RichText-Widget which was designed for use as an EditorPart.

    In that case it was easy, because it only needed an IEditorSite as a constructor parameter. I then extended it and adapted the IViewSite to an IEditorSite.

    But concerning JDT: There is so much funcionality which is directly related to the Base-Text-Editor functionality from eclipses IEditorParts… I think it won’t be worth the effort.

    Could’t you find a Java-IDE for Java-Code? Isn’t there anything working with Swing/AWT?
    You could then possibly include a Source-Code-Editor-Swing-Frame using a SWT_AWT-Brigde-Widget. This way I successfully integrated an Swing-PDF-Viewer into an eclipse ViewPart.

    Take a look at the eclipse API desciption.
    And as a first rough try for the Java IDE:
    drJava

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