Hi David Thanks for updating the list on Laszlo System's initiative for building Open Lazlo IDE. We all believe this is the most desired feature for Open Laszlo, especially in high-competitive market.
To avoid, redundant effort, can you please elaborate on "visual design needs", something that's currently not in Eclipse-Plugin plans for Laszlo Systems? This will help other focus on areas that's not covered in the plugin. Khurram Samad GenITeam | A Web2.0 Specialist Company www.geniteam.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Temkin Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:26 AM To: laszlo-user list; OpenLaszlo development list Subject: [Laszlo-user] OpenLaszlo IDE.... Great to see all of the discussion about IDEs for OpenLaszlo! So.... something is going on in the IDE area here at Laszlo Systems, and this seems like a good time to share what we're doing with the community. Laszlo is in the process of developing an IDE for OpenLaszlo developers. We've been hard at work on this since late last year. It's Eclipse-based, and is focused on code-based development (as opposed to visual drag-and-drop development). It's got plenty of features for LZX developers, and knows a lot about the structure of LZX code. This goes well beyond the level of XML syntax and built-in tags -- it includes user-defined classes and attributes, inheritance, JS syntax assist/ completion, direct access to documentation and more. It also supports breakpoint-based debugging of LZX code, and is packaged as a double- click self-contained installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Our main goals with this product are to make OpenLaszlo development (1) more approachable and (2) more productive. We have not yet decided exactly how the product will be distributed, though it is unlikely to be open source. It will be available later this year. (Sorry, can't be more specific now!) That said, it'd be great to see other IDEs. The more the better -- especially with IDEs and editors, one size rarely fits all. And our upcoming product does not (yet) address the visual design need. Over the coming months, we'll have more to say about the product, and we'll make preview and beta releases available to the community along the path to release. Thought you'd like to know! David Temkin Founder & CTO, Laszlo Systems
