Thanks. I already knew what Eclipse is. My point is, the description of it as "an IDE for everything and nothing in particular" is key to my question.
Eclipse is used for all sorts of development environments, but to my knowledge those are all *code-based* development environments--Java, C, C++, PHP, Fortran, etc. Unless BMC has some scripting language in the works for Remedy, the Eclipse model would have to be heavily modified to accommodate Remedy's unique (and oftentimes frustrating!) point-and-click application development method. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 2:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: RUG update Norm, The simplest (and IMHO the best) one line answer is this.... " Eclipse is an "IDE for everything and nothing in particular" " ( I use to see this on Eclipse's web site, but I can not find the reference any more... ) An older ref: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse.html " The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDEs). It can be used to create diverse end-to-end computing solutions for multiple execution environments. This article discusses the platform, and includes a list of questions and answers. " And some more modern updates: http://www.eclipse.org/home/newcomers.php " What is Eclipse? Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an extensible development platform, runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know us, and hopefully love us, as a Java IDE but Eclipse is much more than a Java IDE. " For example... if BMC decided to use the "Rich Client Platform"(RCP)(http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/rcp.php) they they would have a ready to go framework that is advertised as: " Eclipse RCP is a platform for building and deploying rich client applications. It includes Equinox, a component framework based on the OSGi standard, the ability to deploy native GUI applications to a variety of desktop operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OSX and an integrated update mechanism for deploying desktop applications from a central server. " So any application built using the RCP could (should) run on Windows or Linux or Mac OSX without changes. (Yes that might be further limited by any JNI layer that BMC might still be using. (However, rumor is that might be gone by the time 7.5 comes around too.. :) ) HTH. But until we see how BMC did things... we will have no idea if there will be opportunities for us to add to/improve/patch the new Admin Tool. (I am hopeful, but only time will tell.) -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. On Nov 2, 2007 2:27 PM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And could you tell us some more about its cool features? I guess I'm confused about it being based on Eclipse. Eclipse is primarily a Java IDE and I don't see how that's going to work with Remedy's point-and-click development method. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
