But well... something that would be nice to have is a two-way HTML designer. My only experience with building IDE plugings/ extensions come from co-developing JettyLauncher, and - though I never released it - developing a plugin for Maverick. And man, Eclipse rocks for providing you with an environment to do that. But even though modern IDE's like Eclipse, IDEA and Netbeans will help you a lot with building plugins, my guess is that it will be a major undertaking still.
Some of the 'simpler' idea's that could be done within a few months are things like code generation wizards and e.g. a code completion popup that looks at your current position in the HTML parse tree, looks at the Java structure of the page and then makes suggestions based on that info. There's probably tons of other small idea's that could be implemented.
That said, I think we - and the audience we target - are far better of having more high level components and 'patterns'. That's the stuff that really speeds up development. That's also the stuff that makes .NET such a productive environment, drag 'n drop support is just an extra.
Eelco
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