Re : [Caml-list] OCalDE

Re : [Caml-list] OCalDE

[Matthieu Wipliez]

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In my experience (development of a plug-in using the GEF framework),
Eclipse plug-ins are written in Java. However, nothing prevents you to write it in another language that allows C bindings, and make it available as a shared library (.so or .dll); calling functions is then done using JNI (Java - C bindings). Which is possible with OCaml since it allows callbacks from C.

As for developing an IDE from scratch rather than use Eclipse, being given the number of features provided by Eclipse, IMHO it is not only like reinventing the wheel, but more like reinventing the car itself...

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On Wednesday 25 July 2007 08:27:58 Nicolas Bros wrote:
> For now, you can't. OcaIDE uses a custom parser written in Java,
> ...

I was wondering how the Eclipse plug-in was written given that the underlying 
infrastructure is written in Java. Would it not be much easier to develop an 
IDE in OCaml using something like LablGTK?

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Re: [Caml-list] OCalDE

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 13:30:12 Matthieu Wipliez wrote:
> As for developing an IDE from scratch rather than use Eclipse, being given
> the number of features provided by Eclipse,

What exactly does Eclipse provide for IDE developers?

> IMHO it is not only like reinventing the wheel, but more like reinventing
> the car itself... 

And what is rewriting camlp4 in Java like?

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Re: [Caml-list] OCalDE

[Nicolas Bros]

> What exactly does Eclipse provide for IDE developers?

Eclipse provides a gigantic framework for application and plug-in developers.
A lot of features come for free, like:
- Text editors, which support syntax-coloring (with content
partitioning), completion, hyperlinks, code folding, hooking up with
an outline, ...
- Local history, which allow you to restore a previous version of a file
- Content versioning system
- Views, which can be moved, minimized, closed, restored, ...
- A building framework
- A debugging framework
- Progress monitors (which show a progress indicator and allow
interrupting the task)
- Perspectives (a way of organizing views by tasks)
- Preferences, which are automatically saved and restored
- Property pages
- Wizards, for creating new projects, etc.
The list goes on and on...

> And what is rewriting camlp4 in Java like?

There is no need to, camlp4 (like any other command-line tool) can be
called from Eclipse, and its output used in OcaIDE.