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Re: [science-iwg] Eclipse as a platform for scientific applications
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Hi Philip
You have some good arguments there, even a few I did not think very important. But in retrospect it makes perfect sense. I guess working with the Eclipse platform for so many years made me forget about how hard it is to do extensibility, platform independence, modularity etc. on other platforms. That you also like Java is great. I've mostly seen Fortran in math heavy systems, however integrating these (into Eclipse) is not really an issue, and there are solutions such as JCuda and JOcl/Aparapi that makes Java even interesting even for these types of problems.
Thanks for you help!
Best regards,
Torkild
7. des. 2012 kl. 20:44 skrev Philip Wenig <philip.wenig@xxxxxxx>:
> Hi Torkild,
>
> the main reasons why I chose Eclipse as a platform for my scientific application are:
>
> * Its modularity - it enables to make a clear cut between different concerns. Moreover, it enforces to think about a well designed architecture of the software previously.
> * Its extensibility - if I need a e.g. a GIT plug-in for my RCP, I just can install from the marketplace and don't have to write it by my own. Great!
> * Its platform independence - it's marvelous that it runs under different operating systems.
> * Its native look - frankly, who really likes Swing? The first time I saw a RCP/SWT app I didn't believed that it was Java :-) ... and people like to have a native look, me too.
> * It's Java - previously I've done a lot of VB6 and I seriously thought about C#, but there are so many fantastic Java libraries for scientific approaches (Apache Math, SWT-XY-Graph, SWT Chart, ...). Hence, it was clear to take Java.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
>
> Am 07.12.2012 20:19, schrieb Torkild Ulvøy Resheim:
>> Hei all,
>>
>> I've been asked to do a presentation for SINTEF about Eclipse as a platform for scientific applications. And while I'm quite familiar with the platform itself I'm curious about your reasons for choosing Eclipse for your projects. It would be great if you could help me out by giving me a short summary.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Torkild
>
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Torkild Ulvøy Resheim
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Itema AS - http://itema.no
