| XDE, WSAD and eclipse [message #38257] |
Fri, 13 December 2002 20:34  |
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Originally posted by: billculp.beinperson.com
Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. Does anyone have any
compatibility information regarding plugins for XDE, WSAD and Eclipse?
How "proprietary" are the XDE and WSAD implementations under the hood?
Did IBM and Rational leave anything important unimplemented or screw
anything up? Any response appreciated. Thanks!
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| Re: XDE, WSAD and eclipse [message #38323 is a reply to message #38257] |
Sat, 14 December 2002 05:51  |
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Originally posted by: sten.mindware.se
XDE still uses Eclipse 1.0 technology.You can start XDE stand-alone with
Eclipse or as a plugin in WSAD 4.0.x.
WSAD 5.0 (using Eclipse 2.0.1) has its own binary in front of the eclipse
one. One advantage that you can select the workspace root from the GUI.
Other more subtle differences are IBM additions like Open/Close Project and
the possibility to import/migrate from 4.0.x projects. One disadvantage
seems to be that you can't specify e.g. JDK 1.4.x at startup (is this
supported with Eclipse?)
I haven't found any incompatibilites with 1.0 plugins with XDE or WSAD 4 or
2.0 plugins with WSAD 5. It's a bigger problem that plugins rarely document
exactly what Eclipse version they require and also often don't support the
automatic update scheme (there isn't a standard even for how a plugin zip
file should look like).
Of course, if new plugins use any specific features in Eclispe 2.1, you'll
have to wait for Rational/IBM to upgrade their toolsets before you can apply
them there.
Sten
"Bill Culp" <billculp@beinperson.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:ate1gk$ldj$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. Does anyone have any
> compatibility information regarding plugins for XDE, WSAD and Eclipse?
> How "proprietary" are the XDE and WSAD implementations under the hood?
> Did IBM and Rational leave anything important unimplemented or screw
> anything up? Any response appreciated. Thanks!
>
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| Re: XDE, WSAD and eclipse [message #587625 is a reply to message #38257] |
Sat, 14 December 2002 05:51 |
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XDE still uses Eclipse 1.0 technology.You can start XDE stand-alone with
Eclipse or as a plugin in WSAD 4.0.x.
WSAD 5.0 (using Eclipse 2.0.1) has its own binary in front of the eclipse
one. One advantage that you can select the workspace root from the GUI.
Other more subtle differences are IBM additions like Open/Close Project and
the possibility to import/migrate from 4.0.x projects. One disadvantage
seems to be that you can't specify e.g. JDK 1.4.x at startup (is this
supported with Eclipse?)
I haven't found any incompatibilites with 1.0 plugins with XDE or WSAD 4 or
2.0 plugins with WSAD 5. It's a bigger problem that plugins rarely document
exactly what Eclipse version they require and also often don't support the
automatic update scheme (there isn't a standard even for how a plugin zip
file should look like).
Of course, if new plugins use any specific features in Eclispe 2.1, you'll
have to wait for Rational/IBM to upgrade their toolsets before you can apply
them there.
Sten
"Bill Culp" <billculp@beinperson.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:ate1gk$ldj$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. Does anyone have any
> compatibility information regarding plugins for XDE, WSAD and Eclipse?
> How "proprietary" are the XDE and WSAD implementations under the hood?
> Did IBM and Rational leave anything important unimplemented or screw
> anything up? Any response appreciated. Thanks!
>
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