RE: Eclipse WOLips IDE Opinions
RE: Eclipse WOLips IDE Opinions
- Subject: RE: Eclipse WOLips IDE Opinions
- From: Lon Baker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:26:01 -0500
Drew,
I use Intellij's IDEA. I tried Eclipse due to the major shortcomings of
Project Builder/, and hoped that Xcode would be a significant update
that could challenge Eclipse or IDEA but was let down.
The reason I use IDEA, I enjoy the interface more, has great code
completion, refactoring, and support for ant, as well as a number of
other useful features. Originally I started by piecing together a
build process based on an Ant script that was posted to the list, then
thanks to some help from Jesse Barnum I moved to using WOProject for
the build process.
I never got into Eclipse for purely personal reasons, just could not
get comfortable with the interface and at the time speed was also an
issue. But that was months and months ago and from what I have heard
3.0 is much better.
The major drawback of using IDEA currently is that the 5.2.2 update
broke WebObjects Builder's compatibility with the old pb.project style
project files. This mean you have to open the project in Xcode to get
the variables and actions to show up at all WOB. As well as use Xcode
if you want to use the wizards to start projects, I have simply created
a default project that I duplicate to start new projects at this point.
I am crossing my fingers that in WO 6 we will get full Ant support and
tools that are not dependent on Xcode to function, but that is pie in
the sky at this point. I believe personally that either Eclipse or IDEA
are far better tools then Xcode in the current iteration.
Since switching to IDEA I found my development time went down
considerably due to all the tools built into IDEA. You will be amazed
how much time you save with "real" code completion with on the fly java
docs, which either Eclipse or IDEA will provide.
One other note is that IDEA has support for Weblogic and JBoss, as does
Eclipse I believe. This may be important in the future if as some have
questioned, Apple abandons the old deployment method in favor of one of
these application servers.
Just my 2" your mileage may vary.
Lon Baker
SpeedyMac LLC
http://www.speedymac.com
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