Lee Nackman, IBM VP of Design, Construction, and Test Tools Development and CTO of Rational Software, and Jim Russell, IBM Lotus Software Director of Application Development Tools, explain how IBM is leveraging Eclipse with the Cloudscape Java database and with IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich Client Edition to become a strong tool for cross-platform deployments.
Eclipse, not just for developers anymore
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I’m using eclipse 3.0 for java desktop applications for windows and linux. SWT run very fast compare with swing, and has a very good performace like other native apps for business/desktop uses.
But it’s not all. At this time, I’m using eclipse as a framwork for this applications. With Eclipse’s license I can do that.
Eclipse’s great. Very good job guys.
The eclipse platform is great, especially the rich client platform.
You can develop great, native-yet-cross-platform applications with it.
I have used Eclipse 3 and VS.net. Even though VS.net loads faster, I find that I can get work done a lot faster in Eclipse. I find VS.net unorganized, I find tools in my VS.net view that has nothing to do with what I am writing. That and it is wicked easy to create plugins for misc needs in Eclipse.
You can develop great, native-yet-cross-platform applications with it.
True, as long as you don’t need printing in Linux
I find that I can get work done a lot faster in Eclipse. I find VS.net unorganized, I find tools in my VS.net view that has nothing to do with what I am writing.
Hehe, you’re joking right? Eclipse has lot of things going for it – lots of plugins, a strong architecture, wicked-fast gui with SWT, a whole application framework with JFaces – but organization of the interface is not one of them.
The menus and configuration options are just FUBAR. The way it handles projects is not intuitive. Netbeans, IDEA, and VS.NET have much more intuitive interfaces.
I played around with 3.1M3 to see how much of Java 5 is being supported by the internal compiler and it still amazes me that someone isn’t thumping these developers over the head until the clean up the UI. If they want, they can keep a compatibility look for those that are used to it. They really need to look at Netbeans or IDEA on how to do the interface.
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Projects and classes listed on the left pane, code text in the middle, file structure on the right.
Right-click project pane, select add project, go through a wizard.
In the text editor, Ctrl+shift+o to fix all your imports. Little red dots along the right side for compiler errors. Ctrl+1 for suggestions on how to fix the errors. F3 to jump to definition.
“Project->properties->Build path” menu path to set up your build path.
Ctrl+s to save and compile.
Right-click an identifier, References->Workplace to find all uses of it.
Search->files to grep through the project.
What’s disorganized? What’s missing?