Hear! Hear!
>Greg, > My idea when starting this thread is more along the lines that Sandip just >described. Never thought of having Java replacing elisp as *the* Emacs >extension language. > I'm thinking more about aligning JDE with other Java IDEs in terms of >support for Java plug-ins. Yes we can always rewrite most of those plug-ins >(although GUI-intensive extensions like UML support would be a >stretch) in elisp; or we can have customized elisp glue around those Java >libraries, that will have to be coded from scratch for each one. It is a >fact that there is already a lot of interesting packages in Java out there >that >would be nice extensions to JDE. Isn't it better to re-use them than to >have to re-write them from scratch? > But having a well defined Java plug-in architecture will definetely save >designers time in the long run, and hopefuly would be an incentive for more >designers to come up with extensions for this great development >environment. > > Regards, > Nascif > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
