Hi!
I agree with you, building the Laszlo IDE using Laszlo itself would be
the best possible approach:
* First it would show that Laszlo is a mature platform, capable of
creating its own tools (I believe that is one of the reasons all
Java IDEs are written in Java)
* It would isolate Laszlo from the IDE wars (yes, I know some people
belive eclipse has already won, but I am not that sure, I don't
like it that much... I would prefer to hava a "pure Laszlo" design
surface, and then let someone else worry about embedding it in
Eclipse, IntelliJ or Netbeans (or something else).
* If the desing capabilities are embbeded inside a nice and reusable
framework, the that could be used as a basis for other Laszlo
based applications (like a Laszlo based report designer or word
processor)
* I would be an excelent advanced sample application.
* It could take advantage of the hype Adobe Apollo will generate by
running standalone inside it.
I believe this is definitely the way to go....
Not Zippy escribió:
Just my thoughts.
Before getting into the large scale IDE I would rethink the initial
simplistic view and why wrappers like eclipse fail for this.
Basically for an nice GUI IDE you would like to be able to draw from a
set of widgets and place them inside another container. The problem
with eclipse (and others) are multiple: 1) You need to deploy the
application to the laszlo server to compile and return you your
widget. This (obviously) takes time. 2) How do you present the widget
? You cannot really provide and drop target on a flash object. A
possible solution would be to extract the compiler out of tomcat so
the widget can be compiled but then you have to also provide a runtime
target that supports the drag & drop. Html may be getting close but it
isnt there yet. A different approach is needed...
Might it be possible to build an IDE using laszlo AS the IDE ?
