An Eclipse plug-in sounds quite useful, but I'm wondering whether how broad-range utility would suffer compared to that of a standalone implementation.
I'm wondering, as one of those using Jess with Protege (and using other Protege "plug-able" resources, e.g., public ontologies) whether having Eclipse as another front-end would provide negative interactions. In terms of refining mission-specific functional enhancements to a standalone Jess IDE, you would not have the constraints of the Eclipse environment restricting what you could do.
On the other hand, is your time well spent building a lot of IDE functions on your own?
Best regards
Bob Treleas
Hi Folks,
As you may know, Jess 7.0 (Charlemagne) is going to include a full complement of developer's tools -- a debugger, a smart editor, a rule database, an "explorer", etc. I've been working on some of the technology that will go into these tools -- I have weak prototypes already, actually. Error checking as you type, smart completion, breakpoints, etc. It's pretty neat, actually, but really just a prototype.
Originally, I had considered doing the Jess IDE as one or more Eclipse plug-ins. I weighed the advantages (lots of good tools to leverage) vs the disadvantages (big (60MB?) download for non-Eclipse users, additional support responsibilities for me, again for non-Eclipse users). I decided against it; although it would mean more work up-front to make the tools stand alone, it would require less work in the long run to support and maintain (or so my belief is.)
Given the recent Eclipse discussions, though, I am reconsidering. Let me ask you all directly: Would you rather see a Jess IDE be a standalone thing, or an Eclipse plug-in? I'm more interested in hearing from people who think this is a BAD idea -- I already know that current Eclipse users will think it's a good one!
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