Eclipse and E

[Micah Caldwell]

In an attempt to learn E I went through what was a rather painful process of getting E running under Eclipse.  In order to avoid other people having to go through similar frustrations I created a short tutorial on how to do it at http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/E_Under_Eclipse.  If anyone here is interested, it would be nice to get some feedback on whether the instructions work for anyone else and also if they work on other operating systems.  Since all the tools used are Java based, it *should* work exactly the same regardless of the OS but since I only have Windows boxes running at the moment I am unable to verify if this is the case or not.

Also, I will admit that I'm relatively new to Java (and E) so if someone notices me doing something backwards or in an odd way in the tutorial please point it out so I can correct it (both in my environment and in the tutorial).  In the end I was able to run a one-line E program but for all I know the same could have been done in half the steps.
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[Toby Murray-4]

Hi Micah,

Nice one. Have you come across any advantages employing Eclipse with E,
so far, over the standard (command-line) approach?

Cheers

Toby

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:26 -0700, Micah Caldwell wrote:

> In an attempt to learn E I went through what was a rather painful
> process of getting E running under Eclipse.  In order to avoid other
> people having to go through similar frustrations I created a short
> tutorial on how to do it at
> http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/E_Under_Eclipse.  If anyone here is
> interested, it would be nice to get some feedback on whether the
> instructions work for anyone else and also if they work on other
> operating systems.  Since all the tools used are Java based, it
> *should* work exactly the same regardless of the OS but since I only
> have Windows boxes running at the moment I am unable to verify if this
> is the case or not.
>
> Also, I will admit that I'm relatively new to Java (and E) so if
> someone notices me doing something backwards or in an odd way in the
> tutorial please point it out so I can correct it (both in my
> environment and in the tutorial).  In the end I was able to run a
> one-line E program but for all I know the same could have been done in
> half the steps.
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[Micah Caldwell]

Nothing other then the usual CLI versus GUI arguments.  At some point I would like to build an Eclipse plug-in to support E which will give it syntax highlighting, code outlining, code folding, etc.  For browsing the Java part of the E source code all of these features are available along with a nice debugger and whatnot but I am still learning E so I haven't really touched any of the E source code.

On a related note, what are the advantages to using the E language over ELib?  Do these advantages apply to projects running on trusted servers but being connected to by untrusted clients?  Are there any tutorials (similar to E in a Walnut) that talk about how to use ELib effectively?

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray@...> wrote:

Hi Micah,

Nice one. Have you come across any advantages employing Eclipse with E,
so far, over the standard (command-line) approach?

Cheers

Toby

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:26 -0700, Micah Caldwell wrote:
> In an attempt to learn E I went through what was a rather painful
> process of getting E running under Eclipse.  In order to avoid other
> people having to go through similar frustrations I created a short
> tutorial on how to do it at
> http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/E_Under_Eclipse.  If anyone here is
> interested, it would be nice to get some feedback on whether the
> instructions work for anyone else and also if they work on other
> operating systems.  Since all the tools used are Java based, it
> *should* work exactly the same regardless of the OS but since I only
> have Windows boxes running at the moment I am unable to verify if this
> is the case or not.
>
> Also, I will admit that I'm relatively new to Java (and E) so if
> someone notices me doing something backwards or in an odd way in the
> tutorial please point it out so I can correct it (both in my
> environment and in the tutorial).  In the end I was able to run a
> one-line E program but for all I know the same could have been done in
> half the steps.

> _______________________________________________
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