Are there any other IDEs worth my time for Lotus Notes development? We're doing mostly LotusScript development and would kill for features of Eclipse or Visual Studio, like "Show Declaration". I know there's an Eclipse plugin for Java development in Notes, but seems like it only does Java, and we have too many pieces of legacy code in LotusScript to abandon it.
Lotus Notes has moved to the Eclipse platform in version 8. You can run the client in 2 different modes, basic mode which is the version we all know or on the Eclipse platform (know as the standard). The IDE is also moving to eclipse, version 8.5 beta 2 is currently available with the new Eclipse based IDE. Bear in mind that it's a Beta version and it's not feature complete.
Time is on our side.
The Domino Designer based on Eclipse is now a free download from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/dominodesigner/learn.html
It has brilliant Java and LotusScript editors with all the nice Eclipse features like refactoring and typeahead of custom classes.
Every Domino addict should look at this. Admins too, as the above download includes the admin client.
As of version 8.5 Domino Designer is run as an Eclipse application. 8.5.1 will bring a whole ton of improvements including Eclipse based LotusScript and Java editing as well as improvements to performance, stability and XPages.
Matt
The closest thing you're going to find is the Teamstudio LotusScript Browser.
It's not very good, but it is free and that almost makes up for it.
Features:
No support for keyboard shortcuts.
Not completely integrated into the designer so is a bit sluggish.
Only works in script libraries
It does have Find Definition and References functionality which are almost useful.
There is also a rumored LotusScript plug-in for eclipse.
Teamstudio sell a number of tools to assist your Lotus Notes development, and it looks like they can do some of the things you want, but it doesn't look like they can be assembled into an IDE.
http://www.teamstudio.com/products/product-index.html
(Disclosure: I worked for a sister company of Team Studio a number of years back, but never had much to do with their products)
You could give the Zeus IDE a test drive. It is highly and language neutral so it might be possible to configure it for Lotus Notes.
Zeus automatically maintains a tags database based on the information produced by ctags, so provided ctags generates tags information for Lotus Notes it will be able display, browser and search this tags information.
PS: If decide give it a test drive and find it does not support Notes correctly, feel free to post a bug report to the Zeus forum.
(source: zeusedit.com)
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I'm investigating ways of integrating different test tools with HP ALM. I would love to be able to execute java functionality as a part of this.
In the test-script pane of a VAPI-XP test, there is a button just below the File menu option. It shows/hides the browser panel. The browser panel has five tabbed panes: Library, Soap, Java, Function and Object. Here is a visual:
It looks very promising, and tutorials shows me that I actually can add java functionality to the execution of my tests here! There is a linked option for adding libraries/classes in the Test->References menu option, as shown here:
But when trying to reference java classes, I get this error message:
I had never heard of Microsoft Java Virtual Machine(MSJVM), and a quick search answered why that was. It was discontinued in 2003, and support ended in 2007. When installing HP ALM you can appearently choose to not install the old and outdated MSJVM, and my company has chosen to do this.
Re-installing the MSJVM is not an option, and I can't help but wonder if there is another way to reference java code in my tests? It seems unlikely that a big company like HP wouldn't update their functionality to be compliant with components that wasn't deprecated a whole decade ago. Especially since computer years are kind of like dog years...
MS JVM is discontinued and not supported. Refer HP ALM 11.52 readme and it indicates a known issue with usage of MS JVM with HP ALM and recommends to remove MS JVM (notes from Readme):
Windows XP (SP3) with Internet Explorer 8: When connecting to ALM,
Internet Explorer may crash. This is as a result of Microsoft Java
Virtual Machine being installed on the client machine. The component
does not integrate properly with Internet Explorer 8, and Microsoft
recommends removing it. For more information, see
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/interoperability/java/faq.aspx
Workaround: Remove msjava from the client machine. Alternatively,
delete or rename the file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msjava.dll To remove
msjava, use the Microsoft JVM Removal Tool described at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826878
Link for readme: https://almuniversityofminnesota.saas.hp.com/qcbin/Readme.htm
To get this issue resolved, log a HP support ticket with details on the problem and they should be able to give a quick patch for the issue or resolve this issue in a major patch Release.
HP ALM uses msjava.dll to attach class References of Java. So, workaround is wither to have msjava installed on your client or get this fixed from HP so that they would use Oracle Java JVM.
Firstly, I saw some topics about these two but weren't my answer.
I'm looking for a good FPC(Free Pascal Compiler) IDE on GNU/Linux.
There are some IDE's like Lazarus and CodeTyphon. I need suggestion to choose one of those.
I've tried Lazarus once but all windows was separated. It looks messy and not interesting.
I would like to know what are the distinguishes between these two ?
I would like to know advantages / disadvantages each of those. Thank you
CodeTyphon is a distro of Lazarus, like Ubuntu and Debian are distros of Linux.
CodeTyphon comes with a large package of components and plugins, that otherwise you would have to google and download and install.
CodeTyphon have their own idea what are stable versions and what are not stable yet for both of FPC (compiler) and Lazarus(IDE). Whether their assessment is better or worse than upstream's Lazarus Team's, I don't know.
What about one-single-window plugin, it is work-in-progress and it doesn't seems to me it is ready for production use, no matter would you get it as part of CT or download and add it to vanilla Lazarus. However maybe it better works on Linux than on Windows, I don't know.
There were however issues with code legality in CT grande bundle. It is widely believed that Orca (if I remember the name) violates copyrights of glScene/vgScene, which also happened in early Delphi FMX releases but was fixed by EMBA later. There also were disputes in FPC forums/wiki about CodeTyphon pirating some open-source components. See answer by Peter Dunne below.
Your question is akin to asking the difference between Linux and Ubuntu. Lazarus is an IDE/component library, based on FreePascal (FPC). And CodeTyphon is a distribution of Lazarus and FPC. So CodeTyphon is just one way to install a functioning installation of Lazarus.
Lazarus uses the same floating window design as older versions of Delphi. Installing from CodeTyphon won't change that.
Myself and several friends highlighted several licensing issues with codetyphon
most of which could have been corrected by sourcing the included files from known good source and ensuring the correct license headers were included
PirateLogic refused to correct the issues which means they are using code in direct violation of the original license terms
The fact its open source code does not change the fact they are pirating the code by not including the correct license even after the issue was highlighted
I also found several instances of copyright code included which appears to be proprietary and not FOSS at all
They also changed the path & file names on some libraries so that source is no longer compatible with standard lazarus/component installs
This in my view is totally illogical
These 2 factors heavily undermine what was potentially the best FPC/Lazarus distro
Hardly professional
Lazarus can be a daunting installation process due to it's nature as a cross compiling environment. You don't just download an installer and click ok. A typical "installation" is actually a bootstrap FPC compiler doing a three-pass compilation of an "install". There are plenty of good installation scripts/methods from the official Lazarus/FPC team and in the community for a . But, understandably, the installation process is a skill in itself.
CodeTyphon is a a different/separate branch of an installer system, which is more of a utility suite/tools/third party code compilation library. If you want the simplest installation experience go with CodeTyphon. It has the nice graphical front end for managing the compiler. You can conveniently do the fancy stuff like build "cross-compilers" for almost every "target" operating system out there. It also is jam packed with hundreds of the best components/libraries pre-installed. It is a very actively maintained project and very professional. A whole lot of work is done for you.
Even if you want to be learn the low level compiler capabilities, CodeTyphon is a good place to start. It is written in FCP/Lazarus and is open source. Simply study it as "working demo app" and the other info on the compiler details. If you crash it, at least you don't have to learn to climb the hill. You get to get to start from the top and lose control on the way down. Start from scratch (and a three hour reinstallation) Hahaha
Lazarus also has a package "AnchorDock" which allows you to dock all the windows into one. Either install the anchor dock design package after installing Lazarus, or install Lazarus using the script at getlazarus.org which will do it for you.
What is the right way to make an RCP application that is “ready for plugins”? I have struggled to do this basic concept and am trying to accomplish this in Eclipse 3.7 (latest 3.x version).
Step 1
I would like to explore this by using 3 eclipse plugin projects:
• HelloWorldRCP
• HelloWorldPluginA
• HelloWorldPluginB
Would it make sense to make HelloWorldRCP with all the common things such as a menu-bar with an Edit menu including cut, copy and paste menu items? The HelloWorldPluginA could add an additional menu-item called “Alpha” and HelloWorldPluginB could add yet another menu-item called “Beta”? However, the cut, copy and paste functionality could still work within Plugin A and B?
Step 2
Next, how do I deploy this as a “product”? I have made a new product configuration and defined the dependencies from the default runtime configuration that was made. I do notice that there are a lot of dependency jars that are included, but I don’t think I use them. For example, I don’t use data-binding to my knowledge, but it keeps coming up as a required dependency.
I go to Export | Eclipse Product and an executable environment is created in my desired folder. However, when I copy this to another machine it seems to keep referencing the original machines Java installation location. How does one get around this?
I have tried to bundle a jre with the Product Export but nothing is created. I have also just tried copying my jre6 as a jre folder. This does seem to work.
Next problem here is the 32/64 bit Java execution environments. What is advised here? I have been aiming to build on 32 bit only and then hopefully that will run on 32 or 64bit platforms. Is this correct?
Step 3
I need to web-start this now. The old way of initiating an Eclipse 3.5 application, using a startup.jar has changed. I now use the equinox launcher and reference it in the jnlp instead of the startup.jar. However, I keep getting an exception which seems related to the 32/64 bit equinox win32_64 jar. I notice that the export writes a folder and not a jar. I read somewhere that this is a “clever trick” to allow compatibility for both 32 and 64bit runtime environments.
The problem here is that I need a jar and not a folder so that I can sign the jars required and deploy accordingly.
Does anyone have a Java Web-start example for and Eclipse 3.7 RCP application? Or any advice?
You are going to need a lot of time to learn everything you've asked about here.
Here is one of the best places to start... http://www.vogella.com/eclipse.html
That site covers a lot of basics. But you need a little more than basics.
The best example of a working RCP product with some of the features you require can be found at ... http://max-server.myftp.org/trac/mp3m
This guy (Kai) makes all of the source code available via SVN, and he has some very advanced stuff going on in his application. He also has a good blog with some advanced RCP tips and tricks. http://www.toedter.com/blog/
Another thing you'll want to investigate is Tycho. I realize that you didn't mention anything about building your application, but I've found that using Tycho for building has made my most recent foray into Eclipse RCP 100 times better than the other times I've done RCP work. So, my advice, get to know Tycho. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Reference_Card
The learning curve of Eclipse RCP is somewhat steep, but I think it's worth the effort.
Good Luck!
I currently use Programmer's Notepad for my Chrome Extension project. I like Programmer's Notepad, as it is simple to use and I don't need debugging features (Chrome has all that for me). However, I check the project into Subversion and it stores absolute paths, which will not allow other people to use it unless they use the same exact path.
I have Visual Studio 2010 at my disposal, but I haven't seen a useful way to use it. I have also heard of Aptana Studio, but I was discouraged from trying it out fully because it seemed too bloated for my needs.
What is a good IDE I can use for chrome extension development? The most important factor is good project support. Relative paths need to be stored in the project and it should keep files grouped together so I can work out of the IDE and not have to continuously open files in Windows Explorer.
Secondly good syntax highlighting and intellisense are ideal but I can live without it. Intellisense with jQuery and the built in Chrome Extension API are pluses.
Geany is a good very lightweight with project management and everything. Latest version also includes local intellisense for opened files and has very nice syntax highlighting and some other nice plugins.
Visual Studio 2010 with Resharper (to allow for the JS intellisense) works nice as well but it slightly bloated when it comes to just javascript extension development.
I would actually just recommend a lightweight editor such as Notepad++ or Vim/Emacs but it seems that your project may have grown too big for this so Geany would be my choice.
Komodo Edit is free and seems to meet all of your requirements:
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
If you are willing to pay for it, the ActiveState (same people) Komodo IDE gets very good reviews:
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide/features
I know RIM has their own IDE (BlackBerry JDE) for building BlackBerry apps, but does anyone know how to configure IntelliJ IDEA to build/debug BlackBerry apps?
RE: Chris' question about what is different... Blackberry applications can be standard MIDP apps or CLDC apps that make use of the Blackberry specific APIs. Most developers tend to take the latter approach, and then using Blackberry's tools is required - especially if you are using some of their secured APIs and have to sign your deployment files for them to run on the devices.
A potential answer to the original question would be to use the Blackberry ANT tools to create an ANT script for building the application and reference that from IntelliJ IDEA. Of course, that's only half the battle and to run/debug the application you'll need to connect the debugger to IDEA as noted by Alexander above. Alternatively, you could code in IDEA and run/debug in the JDE, but that seems less than ideal, to say the least.
I use Eclipse with the Blackberry plugin. Also not ideal, since you are forced to use an old (and buggy) version of Eclipse, but at least I'm in one IDE and can step through code running in a simulator.
Blackberry JDE integration would be a great IntelliJ plugin project.
RIM's compiler (the one that builds the COD files) can be easily run from the command line. All you need to do is create a corresponding build step in IDEA.
Also, to make your life easier when editing the code, you may want to add the net_rim_api.jar (the one that comes with RIM JDE) to the JAR files used by your IDEA project.
As for the debugger, RIM's debugger was supposed to support the standard Java debugger interface. I don't remember what the minimum version of JDE is required for that.
Not really an answer, but more asking for clarification what is different for Blackberry dev versus other J2ME devices...
I see its a MIDP J2ME device, and so the standard Intellij J2ME support would seem to give most of what is needed.
I guess the emulator side of things might be different... but maybe you can call the jde emulator from IDEA...
Regards,
Chris
I've been using IntelliJ to develop Blackberry apps...sort of. IntelliJ is really good at indexing code, you just need to point it in the right direction. It's editing abilities are way beyond the JDE and in my opinion it is much more flexible and user friendly than Eclipse (even though RIM has an Eclipse plug-in).
I say sort of though as I just code in IntelliJ and currently still compile and debug through the JDE. Hoping for better integration on that front with IntelliJ down the line, but it is an acceptable working environment for now.
Not sure if this will help but here are instructions for setting up Eclipse for blackberry development.
Maybe you can use that information to figure out what changes to need to make in IDEA.
Its very easy to integrate IntelliJ with Blackberry development given the above suggestion (using the bb ant tasks), but I've yet to successfully debug the simulator through IntelliJ. It should work, but it doesn't.
Thus, the 'integration' is incomplete.