Well, one final bleat and then I'm going back to work. :-) Being an advocate of vi on Unix and Slick Edit on WinDoze, I was "forced" (almost at gun point) to use Eclipse the first time. I hated it so much that I refused to find anything good about for the first two or three weeks. Constantly harping about this and that and the other to no end. And to no avail, I might add.
HOWEVER - after that period of initial rebellion, I found that Eclipse was better than ANY other IDE that I had used previously. The really tight integration with Ant and CVS convinced me. Also, I can have a plug-in for Jess, OPSJ, CLIPS or any other rule engine (or all) without charge. Today, it's my editor of choice. Yes, I'm Java-centric. And I like it that way and I intend to stay that way. SDG jco James C. Owen Knowledgebased Systems Corporation Senior Consultant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Cox, Ph.D. Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JESS: Jess IDE -> Eclipse plug-in On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:11, un ethix wrote: > My personal thoughts on this are, not knowing what eclipse is (apart > from a 'general IDE'), and not wanting to use Jess for large scale > development efforts, I am naturally against being constrained to > having to learn how to use and download something like Eclipse in > order to have a Jess IDE. Mind some advice from someone who was making the very same arguments a very short while ago? Don't waste another minute believing (as I did) that tools like vi/emacs/make/ant are "good enough". Download it and learn it. Do it now. The benefits are huge but hard to describe concisely so I won't even try. The costs are roughly these: (1) telephone charges for a one-time overnight download which needn't be supervised; just let 'er rip while you sleep (not sure what those are in the UK, zero in my case via cable modem), (2) a RAM upgrade to around 500mb at about $200; don't try with much less, and (3) about a week of learning time, mostly spent convincing yourself that eclipse terminology (ie. workspace) maps directly to stuff you already know (project directory). -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
