The XQDT Eclipse plug-in also has code completion for MarkLogic extension functions (and it's pretty speedy at that).
From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Keith L. Breinholt Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:30 PM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Getting started wtih MarkLogic I'll throw my two cents in. Editors: Personally, I use Oxygen for all the same reasons David mentioned. It also supports XSLT and XML Diff and Merge. If you intend to use C# or C++ for your frontend and make XCC calls to MarkLogic for your XML/XQuery, Oxygen is a good fit for your needs and environment. Please note: You need the Oxygen's Enterprise license to enable debugging capabilities. Notepad++ is also popular with several of our developers. It has syntax highlighting and you can switch seamlessly to C++ or C# code but it doesn't have debugger support ... and it's free. Speaking of Free; Sam Neth has been adding XQuery support to Eclipse so you have all the syntax highlighting for XQuery, C#, C++ and it's all free. I believe debugging capability is in the works as well. Unit testing: We've written several in-house and modified other Unit test platforms to make XCC calls for unit testing. If you have a unit test platform you are familiar with my suggestion is to see what it would take to extend it to make XCC calls to MarkLogic. I am not familiar with TDD or SP_Unit but most frameworks are easily extendable to call other code (they call unit tests right?) and you can create your own wrapper to make XCC/XQuery calls. Robert: " Ideally we would like something that would integrate with Visual Studio, since that is what we will probably be using for the front end." Yeah, adding MarkLogic/XQuery support to Visual Studio is on my list too. Using the XCC library from Visual Studio is simple enough, but adding XQuery syntax highlighting and debugging... Keith breinhol...@ldschurch.org From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Lee, David Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:06 AM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Getting started wtih MarkLogic What your asking for is personal preferences. I have some :) 1) Editor. I use 2 editors for XQuery development with ML and other xquery apps. A) Stylus Studio B) Oxygen Oxygen seems to be the community preferred editor (by various non-scientific pool's I've seen and done at XML conferences). Also Oxygen has direct support for debugging against a marklogic server. However, my personal preference is Stylus Studio. I find it much easier to use, faster, less buggy and more powerful. It *lacks* a direct support for debugging against MarkLogic which I thought I would need (hence I bought Oxygen), but have found that Oxygen's ML support is weak. For example you cannot support debugging into HTTP App servers which is mostly what I am authoring. But again, most people I talk to use Oxygen and swear by it. I find I do like having both around for the occasion when Stylus doesnt do what I want (maybe 1% of the time) Then I wil try oxygen and find that it may do it or may not. A nice thing about Oxygen that *is useful* is that it supports syntax highlighting and code completion of markogic extension functions. 2) Unit Testing. Lots of ways of doing that. Depends on *what* you want to unit test and how. If your unit testing the HTTP App server then any kind of Web based unit testing tool would work (Its "just a web server"). If you want to unit test module level calls then you could do this with a .NET native unit testing tool as XCC supports a .NET API. <disclaimer> I'm biased </disclaimer> I personally use xmlsh MarkLogic extension which has very easy and powerful scripting capabilities. http://www.xmlsh.org/HomePage http://www.xmlsh.org/ModuleMarkLogic ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee Senior Principal Software Engineer Epocrates, Inc. d...@epocrates.com 812-482-5224 From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of robert.crock...@mitchell1.com Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:55 AM To: general@developer.marklogic.com Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Getting started wtih MarkLogic Hi all, I have a couple of general questions. Our company is developing a new product with a MarkLogic backend. We are a C#, C++ shop. We are leaning towards an MS MVC implementation of the web application. We use TDD or at least write unit tests for everything, including using SP_Unit for our more complex database work. We do pair programming so we need to standardize on an editor. What editor would you recommend we use? What would you recommend for unit testing? It would be nice to be able to run our tests from inside the editor. Ideally we would like something that would integrate with Visual Studio, since that is what we will probably be using for the front end. Rob NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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