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Eclipse Eclipse everywhere and nere a bit of common sense

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Now look you software makers, its all very well saying "built on eclipse", but i now have 3 completely separate instances of eclipse (Notes 8.5, Myeclipse and Flex3) on my machine and none of them seem to be talking to each other (I've even just opened them up all at once to see if there was a glimmer of recognition between them, I KNOW you can check for such thinks during an install because vmware workstation DOES for its debugger, I'm not asking for perfect integration, but come on party people, standard platform is nice, but COMMON standard platform would be better, all you have to do is ask "do you have an existing eclipse workspace you wish to install to". (mutters and trundles off to see if he can glue them together because most of the players don't seem to like you just switching to a common workspace, there must be an article to be written in getting these to all work)....end of rant

Posted by Mark On 03/03/2009 | Permalink

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1 - IIRC Adobe Flex off a plugin version of their product to put it into an existing eclipse install.

A few others do as well. But you make a good point.

Posted by Simon O'Doherty At 20:56:46 On 24/10/2010 | - Website - |

2 - Just one thing to consider. The more plugins you have the more performance suffers when loading and using eclipse. I've had the Rational Application Developer drag my pc performance through the floor when I install all the plugins that come with it. Anyway just a thing to think about.

Posted by Carlos Rivera At 20:56:47 On 24/10/2010 | - Website - |

3 - @Simon O'Doherty: thanks for pointing out the plug in version, just run into it on the tutorials, better go back and find out if its happy with "myeclipse"

Posted by mark At 20:56:48 On 24/10/2010 | - Website - |

4 - much nodding, we have the chance to do it right, would be soo cool to program java with a domino back end and some flex elements when we want, all from one place (or any combination of your fav tools)

Posted by mark At 20:56:47 On 24/10/2010 | - Website - |

5 - Silly, silly! That would require IBM (for instance) to write truly flexible plugin code and to take the whole "federated services" thing to heart.

It's much more fun (apparently) to write client and server code that's dependent on very specific versions and configurations. Look at how many flavors of DB2 and WAS IBM uses across the "lotus" portfolio!

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