Maybe be admin tool needed a total rewrite? :-) I'm quite sure you gonna love it....
-- Jarl On 11/2/07, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making a graphical IDE that generates code on-the-fly is no easy thing. > I know--I've done it. To "reinvent" the Remedy Admin tool by > reengineering an open source thing (like Eclipse) is a monster > undertaking. It's not just a matter of tweaking how the Java gets > generated or tossing in a few extra features. It would be almost a > complete rewrite, from my perspective, because the development > methodology is so different. It's not like taking a graphical IDE that > produces Java and making it produce, say, C++. > > BMC already has a perfectly functional graphical editor for developing > Remedy apps (the current Admin tool). Why they'd scrap that and adopt > an open source product and then "soup it up" to do what they'd need it > to do to make it "Remedy" is beyond me. > > Granted, I wasn't at RUG and haven't seen it yet, but it sounds bizarre > just from the description. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:50 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: RUG update > > Norm, > > Actually there are editors (just a sub part of the Eclipse IDE) that > does graphical layout of buttons etc for Java classes. The Editor > allows you to graphically create the Java source code and back and > forth too. > > So the idea that it could be used to present the user with an "active > link window" that talk to the ARS server instead of making a *.java > file seems like a very "normal" thing for the IDE to do to me. > > -- > 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 3:02 PM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > 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" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
