Re: MyEclipse Feature Request

I looked into the edit/compile option and that piece would be fairly simple. The editing challenge is building the syntax rules. There are a bunch of eclipse plugins that are editors. I am kind of surprised though that there isn't an editor that implements the syntax editing and highlighting using a "rules" file that could just be plugged into the editor itself. Dreamweaver has this kind of functionality and it would be nice to find an Eclipse editor plugin that would do this. Then, all you would have to do is build a file that has the syntax rules in it.

I downloaded a bunch of editors that looked promising but I came up dry and I didn't have the time to pursue it further (still don't). The compile is the easiest. Just submit the job and monitor for a completion message and return the spool file (at it's simplest).

Debugging seems like it would be the toughest function to add. But, again, if I could find a good "pluggable" editor for Eclipse we could start there.

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:

There's no money to be had trying to write System i extensions for standard

Eclipse

Actually, I think there *is* money to be had, but maybe not as much as a
vendor would like. For example, if I could get a simple plugin that allowed
me to edit/compile/debug that would be a good start and I would be willing
to pay $30/yr for just that plugin similar to how MyEclipseIDE started out.

I have an abiding interest but no Java skill set.

I have the interest, potentially adequate Java skills, but have only
attempted one such plugin in Eclipse based on a tutorial Eric (last name?)
published years ago. I have done a fair amount of work with JT400.jar which
I am assuming is how we would connect to the server from Eclipse.

I did a little searching to see if the LPEX editor is *free* and it appears
it used to be included with Eclipse but no longer is. I did a search on
http://eclipseplugincentral.com but came up empty handed.

Looks like Mark Phippard asked this question some time ago:
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg00163.html

Here's another person developing an LPEX editor for WDSC v7 (I am not sure
why, maybe he meant the latest version of Eclipse).


Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com