Isn't Eclipse the platform upon which WebSphere App Developer is built
on?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Eade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:38 PM
> To: turbine-user
> Subject: Re: Anyone using Eclipse with Turbine?
> 
> 
> On 28/01/2003 9:52 AM, "Quinton McCombs" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I created a Wiki page for documenting how to configure the various 
> > serlet containers and IDEs for debugging.  I only added Tomcat and 
> > IntelliJ because that is what I use  :-).  If you are using a 
> > different configuration and you know how to setup the debugging to 
> > work, please add to this page.  This has been a fairly common topic.
> > 
> > 
> http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?JakartaTurbineIDEDebuggin
> > g
> 
> I switched from IDEA to Eclipse recently.
> 
> I haven't yet had the need to debug anything, but here are a 
> few advantages/disadvantages over IDEA:
> 
> Eclipse Pro:
> + Uses less memory and can handle way more open projects 
> within the same
> memory footprint.
> + Much better CVS integration, can produce and apply unidiff patches,
> excellent repository synchronization facilities (working on 
> Apache projects was a real pain with IDEA, but is a breeze 
> with Eclipse).
> + There is a velocity plugin available that provides syntax 
> highlighting 
> + and
> code completion (there is something basic for IDEA available 
> on the velocity
> site)
> + Can easily configure maven steps into the build process. Eclipse 
> + supports hot-swap debugging (I haven't tried it yet)
> 
> Eclipse Con:
> - IDEA has pretty good caching and seems to work faster as 
> long as you have a whole bunch of memory allocated to it (but 
> the speed of the UI and incremental compiles in Eclipse makes 
> up for it).
> - IDEA seemed to have better search/replace facilities across files.
> 
> Note that I am using the latest integration builds of Eclipse 
> 2.1 (provides even more features than 2.1 M4) which seems 
> pretty stable.  It also supports Mac OS X (which was one of 
> the prime reasons I selected IDEA over Eclipse in the past).
> 
> It is taking me a little while to transition myself from IDEA 
> to Eclipse (mostly finger habits) but it has overall been 
> worth the effort.  I am quite surprised to be promoting 
> something over IDEA - I used to wax fantastic over IDEA all 
> of the time (IDEA 3.0 is probably still ahead of Eclipse 2.0 however).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Scott
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> Scott Eade
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