Making a graphical IDE that generates code on-the-fly is no easy thing. I know--I've done it. To "reinvent" the Remedy Admin tool by reengineering an open source thing (like Eclipse) is a monster undertaking. It's not just a matter of tweaking how the Java gets generated or tossing in a few extra features. It would be almost a complete rewrite, from my perspective, because the development methodology is so different. It's not like taking a graphical IDE that produces Java and making it produce, say, C++.
BMC already has a perfectly functional graphical editor for developing Remedy apps (the current Admin tool). Why they'd scrap that and adopt an open source product and then "soup it up" to do what they'd need it to do to make it "Remedy" is beyond me. Granted, I wasn't at RUG and haven't seen it yet, but it sounds bizarre just from the description. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RUG update Norm, Actually there are editors (just a sub part of the Eclipse IDE) that does graphical layout of buttons etc for Java classes. The Editor allows you to graphically create the Java source code and back and forth too. So the idea that it could be used to present the user with an "active link window" that talk to the ARS server instead of making a *.java file seems like a very "normal" thing for the IDE to do to me. -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. On Nov 2, 2007 3:02 PM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. I already knew what Eclipse is. > > My point is, the description of it as "an IDE for everything and nothing > in particular" is key to my question. > > Eclipse is used for all sorts of development environments, but to my > knowledge those are all *code-based* development environments--Java, C, > C++, PHP, Fortran, etc. > > Unless BMC has some scripting language in the works for Remedy, the > Eclipse model would have to be heavily modified to accommodate Remedy's > unique (and oftentimes frustrating!) point-and-click application > development method. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
