I seem to recall that Oracle was the spec lead on that JSR. Maybe they'll start it up again.
Mark On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Patrick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > IMO this is great news; I know several developers at work who will now > take IDEA for a spin (and I will help them where they can). In our > case we have a dedicated team that does frontend work, and they can > continue to use Eclipse. Those of us who work on the backends/services > can work comfortably within the community edition, I think. > > The sad thing, though, is how the plugin issue is so divisive. I'm > sure there are plugins close to the editor and compiler infrastructure > which would be hard to port between IDEs. But there are useful plugins > that have ports to all three IDEs, last time I looked. One would hope > that we could aim, as a community, for more of that. There was a > movement years ago for a cross-IDE plugin compatibility API, but they > couldn't come to an agreement. If anything, rather than "us vs. them" > in the IDE wars, we should encourage plugin developers to work towards > cross-IDE portability. > > > Patrick > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
