HME development in eclipse - Platycore Studio

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Hey everyone!

We have put Platycore studio, alpha prerelease version out for download:
Google to "Digital Geyser" and follow "Products" link on the left.

It is essentially a set of plugins for eclipse which enable HME app development. I have bundled all the HME SDK as part of this so if you are using eclipse, you can just drop the plugins in and start developing.

This is a very ad-hoc project at this point, but we're gearing toward having a fully functional development and test-hosting environment.

The idea is to give this out as an open-source contribution to the TiVo community.

Features at this point:
- extension points for your own app, so you can start an application by
simply creating a new eclipse plugin
- built-in test hosting environment (one that is part of SDK)
- built-in launcher for the emulator (fires off a AWT window from
eclipse, not SWT native one)
- eclipse views where you can see all your apps and start/stop them
- some test apps I've been tinkering with
- ability to launch all this as an eclipse RCP application, not just as
plugins for eclipse

If you install plugins, you go to Windows->Views->Other... and find "Digital Geyser" among the views. If anyone is interested in using this, helping with development or suggesting anything, let me know!

I would be very interested to hear from TiVo, if using eclipse as a development environment is something you guys may be interested in as a formal SDK release, and how can we collaborate on that.


Cheers,
Timotej