> > The idea is to not implement everything by ourselves. > > We use Eclipse as platform that supplies basic Java IDE capabilities. > > ORM Studio is not just XML editor. It works with both Java source code and > > XML mappings at the same time and in future with database schema. > > This is a valid view, of course. If you look at it from the other side, > which is our users and your customers, you mandate a specific > environment because you don't implement everything yourself. Both views > have advantages and drawbacks for each party.
We had to make a choice and we did it using experience with another our tool (Struts Studio). At the beginning it was a standalone Swing based tool, but customers demanded integration with existing IDEs. So, basicaly we dropped Swing and ported it to SWT. Now it seems that it was right choice. > I'd personally have the GUI mapping features first, and the integration > with source files and IDE second, because of that comparison. Roundtrip > and integrated development is, in my experience, the last thing you > need, not the first. I agree that synchronization in an IDE would be > nice, but is it really more important than the primary objective, a GUI > mapping tool? > > I also think you will double the audience for that tool if you provide > it either standalone or also as an IntelliJ plugin. Shouldn't be a big > deal if you kept the UI/plugin interfaces separate. Certainly, we will have standalone package, which will include Eclipse itself. Just 80 megs more than plugin package :) It is not that easy to make plugins for multiple IDEs. Many plugins advertise support for several IDEs, but in fact what most of them have is a button or menu item that launches plugin as separate application. > Anyway, I'll check it out if I ever try Eclipse again, and it will > certainly help some of our Eclipse users. That would be great to have an opinion from Hibernate developers. Valeriy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
