On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 19:19, Jeffrey Bonevich wrote: > Jason - > > Saw your post on Maven Dairies regarding Maven IDE. > > http://blogs.codehaus.org/projects/maven/archives/000276.html > > Just curious, what is a 'Maven IDE' and what would the relationship be > with mevenide project?
I've always wanted to write a small IDE so I'm going to make one based entirely on Maven. I'm leveraging several commercial packages in particular all the Jide Software Components and JGoodies. The JideSoft stuff in particular focuses on IDE components things like dockable windows and toolboxes and a slew of other components and the JGoodies stuff has superb l&f tools, great form support and good components as well. So with these two packages I'm hoping to make a very simple tool to start with for navigating projects and building them. Later I'll expand and add an editor (I have one based on the MIT lic'd version of JEdit) and various other things. All this stuff will be BSD lic'd and I'll give whatever I can away barring any restrictions imposed by using the commercial components. But I can live with that because I want to make a quality tool, quickly, that works and there are thousands of man hours in the two packages above that I just wouldn't be able to replicate. And I don't want to, I just want to make an IDE. Eventually I will integrate Werkflow and Drools to try and work toward making a tool to help with things like stringent release processes, site management and whatever else I've thought about but forget ATM. In this I will probably integrate some serious visualization stuff using either the YWorks graph packages or the JViews components from ILOG. These run anywhere from 3-6k and possible runtime/distribution fees so this incarnation will not be free. I have honestly not looked at Mevenide in quite some time but I'm sure we could share a lot or all of the model, but I have zero interest in SWT and even less in Eclipse. I'm an IDEA fan so that's what I'll be trying to emulate but I'm certain the entire model could be shared between Mevenide and my thingy. [1] http://www.jidesoft.com/company/index.htm [2] http://www.jgoodies.com/ [3] http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yfiles_about.htm [4] http://www.ilog.com/products/jviews/ -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
