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Re: Bringing back the dev tools
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Re: Bringing back the dev tools


  • Subject: Re: Bringing back the dev tools
  • From: Thomas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:14:47 +1100

Clark,

I object to your condescending tone.

I have been using Eclipse exclusively as my WebObjects development environment ever since Apple's announcement that it was dropping the dev tools. While I am willing to accept that Eclipse may be a fine JAVA development environment for PROGRAMMERS, nothing in my experience with eclipse has convinced me that it will EVER be a more productive WEBOBJECTS development environment for me or my clients.

I have been developing software for more than 30 years, but I don't ever want to be a programmer. I have ten years worth of WebObjects libraries and modules to call on in my work, mostly developed by me, so programming is not something I have to do a lot of. The simplicity and elegance of the Apple tools allowed me to focus exclusively on the customer goals without getting bogged down in programming. My main development tool used to be WO Builder. I have given Eclipse a very solid trial, and I still believe that XCode would be a more productive environment, in terms of functionality delivered to the customer, if the dev tools worked.

Regards
Thomas

On 23/02/2008, at 8:15 PM, Clark Mueller wrote:

Seriously, give it up... try Eclipse for more then ten minutes at a sitting, and you will learn to love the productivity boost it offers. The old tools WILL actually permanently stop working one day.

Clark

On 23 Feb 08, at 1:47 AM, Thomas wrote:

Dave,

I'm interested, but I'm wondering about a few things:

- XHTML 4.0 standard html?

- WO 5.4 inline tags like <wo:string value="[whatever]"/>

- html/api-only (no wod) components?

- those bugs I used to swear at all the time, but mercifully seem to have forgotten... like pasting a tag from one component into another page, and all the quoted attributes disappear, like

whatever: WOKeyValueConditional {
key = "session.something";
value = "some text";
negate = true;
}

becomes

whatever: WOKeyValueConditional {
negate = true;
}


I seem to swear as much at Eclipse as I used to swear at WO Builder, but I'd be very wary of going back to XCode now that I have become more-or-less productive with Eclipse...


Regards
Thomas

On 23/02/2008, at 6:19 PM, David Elliott wrote:

Well, I finally did it.

If anyone is interested, both EOModeler and WebObjects Builder from the Xcode 2.5 release can be made to work in conjunction with Xcode 3 on Leopard. This includes the ability of WebObjects Builder to talk with Xcode 3 so it can display the variables from associated Java source files.

I also determined that Apple built WOJavaPBXHelper.pbplugin to support GC mode so with a small Info.plist hack you can let Xcode know it's okay to load it which allows you to use the web assistant as well as click on links in backtraces.

So far I have encountered only one bug. In WebObjects Builder closing the last open component for a given project will result in Xcode choking and WB hanging waiting for a reply when you go to open another component from the same project. An easy workaround is to always leave at least one component open. If you accidently close all of them, quitting WB before opening a new component will fix the problem.

Anyway, I'm trying to gauge if there's any interest in this and whether it's even worth my time to release it. So reply and let me know if you're interested.

-Dave

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