Slightly amusing

I've been playing around with a crazy idea of recreating Eclipse JDT tooling with XText. While it does sound a fair bit more than a little crazy, it appeals to me for few reasons: It would give me great opportunity to learn XText and test it in a non-trivial setting. It would give me great opportunity to learn more about Java the language. Having Java source code parsed into a well defined EMF structure opens up JDT to all the  goodness of EMF tooling that has been developed over these past years. It seems like an interesting idea. I wonder if I actually get around to giving it a try...

After some time of observing he progress of e4 application framework development and reading some fine high level documentation and fidgeting with some of its samples and creating few toy projects, I decided to dive in at the deep end so to speak and try it out with somewhat more serious and concrete project. I am trying to implement a proof-of concept of an application that among other things needs at startup dynamically create a set of windows (one per each monitor) and go full screen with all of them. Reading the implementation of  E4Application (I must admit it is quite an interesting and educational excercise in itself) I found that I need to define a "Lifecycle handler" and intercept "processAdditions" lifecycle event to dynamically create new windows after the model has been loaded. At first I was struck by an apparent problem where I needed an access to a Display instance. At first I simply tried and to add it as an argument to my processAdditions ...