JBossIDE Development News

[maxandersen]

Just some news for you all....

JBossIDE is being migrated to Eclipse 3.2. It will be named JBossIDE 2.0 and JBossIDE 1.6 will most likely be the last Eclipse 3.1 version.

Joe Hudson has contributed his FreeMarker plugin which is now in CVS and it will be part of JBossIDE and available as a standalone download
http://fisheye.jboss.com/viewrep/JBoss/jbosside/freemarker

Leon Chiver has contributed his work on a netbeans plugin for Hibernate.
(We might have more news here soon, but still work in progress ;)
http://fisheye.jboss.com/viewrep/JBoss/jbosside/netbeans/

Some of us has also started being at #jbosside at the freenode IRC network - come by if you want to talk about JBossIDE development

- max

[leonceeo]

Here some info on the NetBeans plugin, order is irrelevant:

I'd like to setup a webpage with some screenshots, a short description and the download link, but don't know where to do it.... Nightly builds would be cool too ;)

The current version which I've checked in is now almost the one I planned to release as 0.8 on java.net. Still want to write some more unit tests, but I plan no features right now.

As I told Max, the NetBeans plugin (maybe more coming sometimes later) will have different lifecycles from the eclipse ones, as i don't have to much spare time to work on them.

Leon

[maxandersen]

Hi Leon,

Yes - we will see if the netbeans tooling can get of the ground; community contribution is key here.

Regarding the webpage then just write the page and take the screenshots and i'll find a way to get it up next to the hibernate tools ...also need to find a good way of explaining that this is a very first version of the tooling and not all features are in there and even more important might not be very much aligned. (I would like to see the configuration and execution be very similar between the two plugins - alot of this code is not IDE specific)

For the download we will put it up on sf.net when that becomes relevant - I hope Marshall can chip in here with suggestions on where/how we can do that.

btw. does Netbeans require JDK 5 ? Your code is currently JDK 5 dependent...

[leonceeo]

NetBeans 5.0 doesn't require JDK 5.0, but 5.5 (to be out in some months) requires. So I'd rather stay with the new JDK ;)

[maxandersen]

sure, but if/when we start sharing code between the projects we will need to be jdk 1.4 compliant...just a FYI.