Best way to integrate Che-specific utilities?

[glsp-bot]

Hey,

i am currently working on the deployment to Che for the ecore editor. Currently the editor is running in Che, however the integration is not great, for example: the Che dashboard cannot be hidden.

I think the easiest solution would be to use the Che-Theia project, since it is offering good integration with Che. But i am unsure what the best way to this would be. Would it be suitable to change the dependencies of the project from theia to che-theia? Or is there an solution to just add the functionality to the project?

Thanks in advance.

original thread by simongraband

[eneufeld]

Hi Simon,
could you explain what you are trying to achieve? The che dashboard is provided by che and allows the workspace management.
With Che-Theia you get a special theia version but you won't get rid of the dashboard.

[glsp-bot]

[simongraband]

Sure. So currently we are working on the deployment to che. And when comparing the Ecore-Editor, which is running locally in Che, with a che-instance that runs 'che-theia', some 'features' are 'missing'. For example che-theia has a button in the bottom left corner, that allows you to hide the dashboard. Another example would be the project import. Which is working for che-theia, however not for the ecore editor.

As far as i understand it, these changes are exactly what che-theia is doing.

The question would be wheter or not it makes sense to adapt the code of che-theia and, if yes, how. Currently i can not find any examples that achieve this, without completly switching the dependencies to che-theia, which is probably not intended.

[eneufeld]

Now I get it, hmm it would be interesting to know what the difference between theia and che-theia is, ideally they added only some extensions, we need to check this

[eneufeld]

after a 1 minute check I would say that the dependencies of ecore-glsp can stay the same.
The docker image should be based on che-theia though and include your ecore-glsp extensions

[glsp-bot]

[simongraband]

Ok i understand. I talked with Jonas and Camille about this and we think that the best way to go would be to create a che-theia-ecore that builds a second browser-app. However based on che-theia instead of theia. So we could then build the docker image based on this version of browser-app.

I've read through the che-theia documentation, but i was unable to find a way to build on top of che-theia via a dependency, like with theia. So do you think this is feasible?

[Deel96]

Hey guys,
in relation to #50:
I'm also looking for a way to run theia with emf.cloud on che.
Is there an update on this?

[jfaltermeier]

Hi @Deel96 , atm there is no update, but for reference I gave some pointers here: #50 (reply in thread)