Re: Editors/IDE as extensible, customizable and opened as Eclipse, HTML-Kit or jEdit

From: I H H (iohihuh_at_INyaVAhooLID.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:13:27 GMT

I visited netbeans site, and there's heavy load of info. So could you (or
anyone) give clear definition what's different between Nebeans IDE and
Platform. Which should I use (I code mostly perl, hmtl, sometimes C++ and
Java)?

"Harri Pesonen" <fuerte@sci.fi> wrote in message
news:Tlurc.2623$Id4.1882@reader1.news.jippii.net...
> How about NetBeans:
> http://www.netbeans.org/
>
> It is an free open source IDE for creating Java applications, written in
> Java. Quote:
>
> "NetBeans IDE - A world-class, professional IDE (Integrated Development
> Environment) - The NetBeans IDE is the Platform (see below) plus modules
> that include things such as an editor, tools for working with source
> code (Java, C++ and others), version control, and a lot more.
>
> * Advanced syntax highlighting, error checking code editor
> * Support for the Java, C, C++, XML and HTML languages
> * Pluggable support for compilers, debuggers and execution services
> * Support for JSP, XML, RMI, CORBA, JINI, JDBC and Servlet technologies
> * Support for Ant, CVS and other version control systems
> * Visual design tools
> * Wizards and code generation and management tools
> * Cross-platform
> "
>
> Harri
>
> Jean-Marc Molina wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for editors and IDE as extensible, customizable and opened
as
> > Eclipse, HTML-Kit or jEdit.
> >
> > Websites :
> > - Eclipse : http://www.eclipse.org/
> > - HTML-Kit : http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
> > - jEdit : http://www.jedit.org/
> >
> > Software descriptions and features :
> > - Eclipse : « Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open
> > extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. »
> > - HTML-Kit : « Over 350 free plugins are available for extending and
> > customizing HTML-Kit to fit the way you work. »
> > - jEdit : « Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture.
Dozens
> > of macros and plugins available. »
> >
> > Only Eclipse and jEdit are opened, but they're all extensible, so
> > customizable. Many other softwares try to be as extensible and opened,
in
> > some way, as the Eclipse Project :
> > - Macromedia Dreamweaver : You can easily develop JavaScript extensions
to
> > extend this famous WYSIWYG HTML editor but as it's not 100% extensible,
you
> > can't do the « anything and nothing in particular » of Eclipse.
> > - Adobe Photoshop : Since CS you can extend this image editing software,
> > before only a SDK was provided.
> > - Discreet 3D Studio Max : You can extend this 3d graphics software both
> > using MAXScript and the SDK. However there are things you can do with
the
> > SDK that you can't do with MAXScript (3dsmax 3).
> > ...
> >
> > I discovered Eclipse a few years ago and since then I only found a few
tools
> > as impressive as it. The first was HTML-Kit, hundreds of plugins,
supports
> > many scripting languages but there're some limitations and the project
has
> > not been updated for a long time now. A few weeks ago, I discovered
jEdit
> > while searching for an alternative to my buggy Notetab Light, a powerful
> > text editor. I don't know everything about it yet but it's one of the
most
> > well polished and designed software I have ever seen.
> >
> > I know a few extensible softwares, graphics tools, programming editors
or
> > IDE... But I still believe there are some great extensible softwares I
don't
> > know, not yet. Maybe there's even an Eclipse killer :).
> >
> > JM
> >
> >

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