| Eclipse as a client platform [message #571897] |
Sun, 04 August 2002 19:01 |
 Mike Evans
Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hullo,
Following a colleague's recommendation, I downloaded and used Eclipse as a
Java IDE for close on three months (ironically, developing a Swing GUI)
before I bothered to go to the website and find out how much more than a
single IDE the Eclipse project aims to be.
I have now enthusiastically taken up trying to develop my own plug-ins
('trying' being the operative word - I'm still an Eclipse newbie). However
I am not attempting to build further development functionality. Rather, it
appears to me that Eclipse is a perfect platform on which to build 'normal'
end-user applications.
Eclipse:
1. is modular through plugins (functionality) and perspectives (user
interface);
2. is easily configurable;
3. has a decent "native" GUI which can be developed quickly using JFace;
4. is supported on pretty much any client OS;
5. has a friendly licence (the CPL) and developer community (judging from
the newsgroups) ,
6. has an integrated development environment (!)
Does anyone else think the same way? Or indeed is anyone else developing
client apps on top of the runtime? If so I would be very interested in
discussing the pros' and con's of this idea.
Regards,
Mike E.
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