RDi is Eclipse based: Yes (starting at 9.5, it is based on Luna)
RDi can run Eclipse plugins: Yes, you need to add the update site for Luna, the location is
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna
1 workspace useable by both RDi and Eclipse Neon: NO, RDi 9.5 is based on Luna
Work in HTML, CSS, JSON, RDi concurrently: Yes as well as PHP (add the PDT project), Git, SVN, Nodeclipse, and many other environments. You just have to be happy with the least common denominator. That is usually RDi.
I don't generally (but I have) mix an match RDi with other environments like PDT or Nodeclipse because IBM is usually 2-3 releases behind. But having all my IDE's based on the same framework (Eclipse) makes working with multiple languages easier since I don't have to learn a new IDE for each. BTW, an interesting tidbit, Domino Developer is also based on Eclipse, but far more locked down.
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/17/2016 04:55PM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] RDi & Eclipse
Buck suggested something the other day that has taken this long to sink in.
RDi is Eclipse based. Yes, I remember reading that. What I sense that
Buck suggested, and had never occurred to me is that RDi can run Eclipse
plug-ins? So I can have 1 workspace, usable by both RDi and Eclipse
Neon? All projects can be available in RDi? So, I can work in RDi
with HTML, .css, and JSON files with an HTML editor, a .css editor, and
a JSON editor?
midrange.com
